domain Expensive mistake - Please help out!

[RegFee]

So I got a little overzealous adding backorders to pool, since I never win anyway. I added http://www.cest-ici.com to the list since metricsmarket.com said it gets 2 million visitors a month. I should've checked the alexa results, because then I would have realized that those 2 million visitors are all to the site that cest-ici.com redirects to, chez.com.

Anyway, the point of this story is, I won the name, and had to pay.
So now I'm stuck with this name, and I have no idea what it means.

If someone knows french, please translate.

Also, please everyone, appraise this name. (cest-ici.com)

Maybe it will have some residual traffic, but I doubt it. I just changed the ns to sedo, so we'll see.

I'm sure this happens all the time, I knew not to do it, I don't know how it still ended up happening.

Oh well, it's just money, right?
At least I finally won a name on pool

 

[Gene]

"Cest ici" means "it's here"

 

[floatingworld]

it is French for 'this is the place' 'here we are', quite a nice name...

 

[RegFee]

it is French for 'this is the place' 'here we are', quite a nice name...

Sweet! It means something.

So was it worth the $60?

Thanks a lot for the quick replies!

 

[Gene]

Sweet! It means something.

So was it worth the $60?

Thanks a lot for the quick replies!

I humbly disagree with yoshiwara on the meaning ("Cest" means "It's" and "ici" means "here"), but either way, it's a good name as far as French names go. I have no idea of the value on foreign language names though...

 

[floatingworld]

...my definition was extracted from the Concise Oxford French Dictionary which provides the complete phrase exactement.... :wave:

 

[Grrilla]

I feel the Libra and a bit of bookishness coming on. English has a larger vocabulary or a larger # of words to choose from, than does French, (and several other languages), so oft times a phrase in French can have different nuances in meaning, depending on the context, (and sometimes, inflection). So, IMHO, you both are right. Literally, and for people who "think" in English, Gene is correct. Ce=it, est=the "is" verb form of etre, "to be", c'est is how "it is" is conjugated, eg "it's", and ici= here. However, and the native French speakers can correct me if I'm wrong, it can also imply "this is the place", (as yoshiwara, mentioned), as well as, "this is where it's at", "it's all right here" etc., although there might be regional idioms and more specific phrases to express the latter. :gl:

 

[RegFee]

...my definition was extracted from the Concise Oxford French Dictionary which provides the complete phrase exactement.... :wave:

Oooh.. Could you scan the page for me? lol, thanks for the info.
Do you have any opinion on the value of the name? I have no experience selling foreign names.

 

[floatingworld]

...some of us might be amusing ourselves crossing swords re the precise meaning of the phrase, but it doesn't quite help you re the domain's value...I doubt it is worth much without some extensive site development around some aspect of French culture. You might try selling it for 2 months on sedo and then ebay, but the odds are that it will still be swinging around in your portfolio for you to drop in 12 months time...

 

[Grrilla]

Relative to domain name sales, I have found the French to be, shall we say, thrifty or financially conservative. :hehe: I've only sold 2 names to French companies, and in both instances, I had to settle on a sales price that was on the low end of what I had the enduser price bracketed at. Coincidentally, my last negotiation was w/ a French firm and the deal fell through, because we couldn't come close enough together on a price. (A side note: I've also learned, through trial and error, that they have little interest in exts other than .com, .fr, and to a lesser extent, .net. I have some fairly good Fr keyword names in info and biz. that the, (non-literal), English equivalents would be very nice to have, but in French, have received little or no interest, at all. ie votresante, beaucoup.)

Additionally, my guess is that this was a voluntary drop, which means that the original owner probably wasn't deriving enough value from it's type-in traffic or as a redirect link, to make it worth renewing. These factors, added to the fact that there is an arbitrary hyphen in the name, puts this one, undeveloped, just about at reg fee. Of course, I hope you can do better than that, if selling is your objective.

On a more positive note, the name does lend itself well to branding, meaning that development probably will provide the best means of "salvaging" your investment and making some profit, to boot. Wishing you the best of luck.