Greetings from Africa

[Shephard]

Greetings, am from Zimbabwe but based in South Africa. Am new to domaining, I have a number of domains I want to sell and I plan to make domaining my secondary source of income.

I currently own; beijingsecret.cn, crazyparliament.com, dollar4two.com, qhiqhi.com, shanghairich.cn

I am new in this industry, I hope to learn from you.

Thank you

 

[Shephard]

Hello Shephard and welcome to the NamePros community!

I know you don't live there anymore, but I'm curious as to if there even is a market for the Zimbabwe ccTLD? Do you know of anyone who owns one? I know .za for South Africa does fairly well .. but wasn't sure about the rest of Africa.

Good luck with your domaining going forward!

In Zimbabwe there is .zw but it's not doing good at all

 

[Pierre Barnard]

Greetings neighbor.

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

ʬʬʬELCOME @ nP

 

[deez007]

How has been your journey in domaining, considering that domain is uncommon in this part of the world.

Been alright mate... domaining is certainly not mainstream in this part of the world but lots of domainers are operating under the radar in SA, so there are way more domainers in the country than we know off.

 

[BullDomains]

Welcome to NamePros!

 

[Mister Funsky]

Hello and welcome...this is a great place to learn...read, read and read! Good luck!

 

[Marc Riccio]

Welcome. Am newbie as you are. Are you doing any African domains? Could be a huge market...

 

[Shephard]

Welcome. Am newbie as you are. Are you doing any African domains? Could be a huge market...

Africa is quite slow in catching up

 

[Marc Riccio]

Africa is quite slow in catching up

Africa is quite slow in catching up

It's developing... get in on the ground floor. Buy some cheap stuff and put them on a shelf for awhile... could be good. $500 could turn into $5K or turn to Zip... just like a Vegas casino

 

[ecigs.net]

Welcome to NP.

 

[WatchDogue]

Hello!

Welcome to NamePros!

 

[Ram G.]

Welcome to NP!

 

[rubencouto]

Hello @Shephard !

Welcome aboard to NamePros!

 

[Logic97]

Welcome! I'm also living in SA!

 

[Emmy101]

Welcome to NP and good luck selling your domain names!

 

[tldboss]

Hey Shephard

Welcome to NamePros! good luck

 

[tldboss]

Africa is quite slow in catching up

I am from Zimbabwe as well. I am afraid I disagree with this statement. There is nothing to catch up to. People have more pressing issues to deal with. They do not have money to spend on domains etc.

Zimbabwe is poor, but has highest literacy rate in whole of Africa (it's definitely at the top).

 

[1Darko]

@Shephard Welcome to namepros!

 

[Abhikrishna]

Hello Shephard and welcome to the NamePros community!

I know you don't live there anymore, but I'm curious as to if there even is a market for the Zimbabwe ccTLD? Do you know of anyone who owns one? I know .za for South Africa does fairly well .. but wasn't sure about the rest of Africa.

Good luck with your domaining going forward!

Hello Shephard and welcome to the NamePros community!

I know you don't live there anymore, but I'm curious as to if there even is a market for the Zimbabwe ccTLD? Do you know of anyone who owns one? I know .za for South Africa does fairly well .. but wasn't sure about the rest of Africa.

Good luck with your domaining going forward!

I wanted to know how good is .ZA market? Does Africans gives preference to the .ZA? Or .com?

 

[Pierre Barnard]

Imo South Africans Trust coza websites above any other.

 

[Abhikrishna]

Imo South Africans Trust coza websites above any other.

So you mean that co.za is more valuable than .com in Southafrica

 

[Pierre Barnard]

So you mean that co.za is more valuable than .com in Southafrica

Its more trusting/trustworthy for south africans.

Value is measured differently.

 

[dbs00]

Hey Shephard! Welcome to NP! You'll like it here!

 

[Bertrell]

Welcome!

 

[Maestro88]

Welcome! Interesting insight/discussion so far from posters in Africa, keep it coming!

M88