Help me to better my portfolio (reward $50 for best - Huge.one post)

[Brands.International]

Hi friends.

as some of you know, English is not my primary language. This is one of main reasons I suspect I have some bad domain names in my porffolio. Primarily, I am usually not sure about singular/plural forms of keywords, and I think some of them might be simply gramatically wrong. Naturally, I do not want to spend my money to pay for renewals for such domain names.

Therefore I need your help.
Rules:

1. Domains to check are in my portfolio at:
www.brands.international

2. In your post, write 5 - 10 domain names you think are bad, (or at least worse then others I have)
- but only 1 bad name per extension!
(in another words, you need to write 5 - 10 bad domain names in different extensions)

3. if you can or want, also write why you think the are bad (gramatically incorrect, does not really make sense, is not much used in this context, keyword does not go with extension, keyword not in large end user demand, or you just do not feel it, etc).

4 Post into this thread until end of Thursday 17.1.2019 your time. All posts after this time period are welcomed, but they will not be eligible for chance to win financial reward described below.​

$$$ REWARD FOR YOUR HELP $$$:
I will publicly choose 1 post (it must contain comments on at least 5 of my domain names) and which I see as most helpful for me, and will pay reward of $50 to it's author.
(Payment only via PayPal, so you need to have PayPal in order to be eligible for reward. In case you will not provide your PayPal address until 72 hours since I ask you via PM, I reserve my right to select another Namepros member instead.)

Many Thanks
PS: do not be afraid to criticise, this is the whole purpose of this exercise.​

 

[Brands.International]

Thanks guys!

I really liked and appreciate answers of @MrAcidic @Bob Hawkes @MapleDots and @Silentptnr

Honorable mentions are post of new member @Hustling and @Kate (although OP is not fan of new gTLDs in general, weighted in with helpful ideas). Another honorable mention is @BaileyUK for being nice and kind.

I liked posts of others as well, and I am grateful for them.

Personally, I liked posts of @Bob Hawkes and @MapleDots most, both well informed and good spirited OPs from Canada! But winner can be only one, and it is .....

@Bob Hawkes - Thanks a lot of very detailed comment, and helping me to improve my portfolio
I will PM you now for paypal details, hopefully those $50 will buy some nice dinner anda glass of wine even in more expensive country as Canada is! Thanks again.​

 

[eurorealtor]

I've seen your website few weeks ago and my advice would be to quit newGTLDs and start from the scratch with .com, .org or even .sk. The renewals will kill your business.

 

[MapleDots]

The rest:
kindly consider not to "advice" me that I should invest in .com

I think we should respect the OP's request, there are small businesses and there are large businesses, there are beginners, and there are large corporations. Everyone works at the level they are comfortable with and we should stay on topic to @lolwarrior 's request, or if desired add the advice as a footnote to an on topic post.

Now down to business....

I'm with a lot of the posters here
immersive.vip - sounds wrong
weed.pizza - cannabis.something else would be better
beautiful.company - beautiful is difficult for a lot of people to spell and makes a poor choice for an address
gay.coach - if you need coaching then you're probably not gay
bicykle.online is spelled wrong - bicycle.online is english if that is what you are after, if not don't worry

thelosvegas - sounds completely wrong and I could not find it a second time looking at the site, you have no keyword search feature and I could not do a control F to search for the word either. So actually putting the domain name under your graphic would allow a visitor to quickly hit control f anf find the domain a second time without having to scan all the way through. I know you have it by category too but if I am targeted and am looking for a specific name it makes sense to have the site as searchable as possible.

Now the good....

Royale.Casino sounds great
Virtual.Fund - I like it
Huge-One - has potential in a lot of places as well as porn
gay.holiday - I could be mistaking but there is probably a real market for that.

houston.property and all variation of are probably some of my faves, there is a lot of money to be made in property and I really like the way all those domains look and feel.

All in all I think you have room to do a bit of fine tuning and by starting this topic you are on the right track.

As far as the advice of some of your piers goes....

There is room in your portfolio to drop domains and also to add strategic .com's to protect some of your more original combinations.

Ie your business name: BrandsInternational.com - now that one is taken but I am just showing you an example that some of the stronger ones may still have a .com available.

Last piece of advice....

A lot of the extensions like .online are English and adding another language look kind of odd. You have to be careful when putting them together because it is very doubtful a business would want to mix languages for their online presence.

Closing...

A lot of the members are telling you to diversify and not put all your eggs into one basket. If we take domaining out of that scenario and follow the financial advice given by most experts then that is sound advice. You have to balance the riskier investments with the ones that have a solid history. Now take that financial advice and convert it back to domaining.

Anyways enough of my blabber... I wish you luck in your endeavours

 

[Bob Hawkes]

First of all let me commend you @lolwarrior both for this innovative idea. Maybe we will see more of this on NPs after your lead, Also congratulations on your overall superb portfolio. So many great names!

But you asked us to be critical, so here are my comments (these are in no particular order - I used _ instead of . in case you did not want search to find your names in this thread):

LIFE
I like a lot of your .life names (e.g. kind_life, holy_life, prosperous_life even cheap_life which might work great for me personally ) but the name reach_life does not really work for me. I mean I can think of possible applications, but the combination for any of them seems contrived and unnatural to me. By the way moon_life also does not work for me, even though I generally like astronomical names and it does feel elegant. So maybe some end user would have the perfect fit for it.

VIP
I am not very expert in the .vip extension, but I do see that it works well with many of your names - e.g.portrait_vip for a photographer who specialized in portraits of well known people, etc. The name PostCards_vip does not work for me at all, however. I don't associate getting a post card with VIPs. I have trouble imagining an end user that realistically would pay a reasonable amount for the domain name.

WORLD
This is one of my favourite ngTLDs and I like a lot of yours that range from superb match names outside the business world (e.g. blessed_world) to practical ones that a business would see as a great name to use (love e.g. baking.world in your portfolio). The one .world domain name that you have that doesn't work to my way of thinking is pleasant_world. Yes, it makes a statement, but pleasant just seems too mild. I don't see it as having the energy a good domain name should. Improving_world also does not work well for me - it says something positive, and I could see it being used, but I don't see it as clean and precise as most of your matches across the dot. By the way, domainers_world is a pretty nice domain name for a reference site, publication, etc. for this community. I definitely think we will see more .world extension names in use in the future.

GOLD
I'm not very knowledgeable of the .gold extension, and maybe it is my science background keeping me from seeing other uses of the word, but the domain name massive_gold just doesn't work for me at all. I could see massive with other ngTLDs like .science or .tech etc. but for .gold, not for me. I like a lot of your other gold, names like her.gold and lovely.gold are much better in my opinion.

MARKET
Clearly .market is a great extension and I like a number of your names that work well with it. I also think that neuroscience is one of the most important areas of science. The developments of the past decade have been amazing, and so will the next. It has allowed us to better understand thought processes, learning, memory, degenerative mental diseases, and various mental illnesses. Techniques like fMRI allow us to even see live indicators of thought processes. All of this has also served as a model for certain neural network based AI techniques. So no doubt a super important term, neuroscience. To me it does not work with the .market extension though. What exactly would neuroscience_market sell? Equipment for conducting neuroscience? It works for that, sort of. Prescriptions? No. I like TheDomain_market and nanotechnology_market somewhat, but not neuroscience (even though I hold that word in some other ngTLDs myself).

HOSTING
I suspect many on NPs will disagree with me on this one, but I'm not much of a fan of blockchain_hosting. My reasoning is blockchain as I (perhaps incompletely) understand it is a distributed ledger. To me that is sort of contrary to an association with one hosting service. I think you have some fantastic hosting names such as dream_hosting and unlimited_hosting and others. And I know the world is blockchain enthusiastic, but I don't like blockchain_hosting a lot.

SALE
I must admit with both .sale and .forsale TLDs, I have sort of always been troubled by both (sort of feel similarly with extensions available in both singular and plural - e.g. .loan and .loans, since I see end user confusion). That being said, some .sale and .forsale work betters than others. For me ByOwnerFor_sale does not work. The English would be For Sale By Owner and altering the order to fit the phrase with a TLD seems contrived and not memorable or clean to me. Personally this one if it was mine I would either let drop or sell cheap. Just my humble opinion.

AGENCY
I like this extension and feel it has a good future, but your domain name travelling_agency does not feel quite right to me. Of course travel_agency would be an incredible name, but at least around here we don't refer to travelling agency.

ONE
A great extension that works for many companies - e.g. one of your superb names is biotechnology_one. It is a perfect memorable, positive name in an important area. A+! For me, the name idiot_one is not in the same class. Quite apart from if it is a politically incorrect use of a mental health condition, what company or organization would use it? Maybe a sarcastic comedian or celebrity. Anyway, I don't like the name at all.

STORE
This can be a great extension and I like some of your names (theFresh_store would be one - great for a fruit and vegetable market or chain, for example). To me TheNew_store is weak (not terrible but weak). Any store hopes to be in business awhile so why brand on being new? Or if you mean sell new things, most stores do. It's just too general to be good in my opinion.

Thanks for giving us all the opportunity to weigh in, @lolwarrior. It is an interesting exercise and I learned in going through your portfolio. It is always worthwhile to reflect and evaluate. Here I focussed on the few names I did not like, as you requested, but the vast majority of your names are superb examples of the very best that ngTLDs can be. Any of us can learn a lot by looking at your portfolio.

Have a nice day, and best wishes for further success.

Bob

(ps Maybe it is my aging eyes and/or monitor, but I did find a few of the light yellow ones hard to read clearly).

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Thank you @lolwarrior!

Your contest generated many valuable comments, and I think helped us all to think more clearly about what makes some names better than others, and how even tiny nuances can make a difference.

I had glanced at your portfolio a number of times earlier, but the challenge of providing detailed comments caused me to look at it in more depth. I'm glad I did as I learned a lot just from going through each name in your portfolio. Totally impressed with so many great matches across the dot that you have.

I learned from the various submissions that many made here, and I am glad that you highlighted the most helpful ones above. It was nice to see some in depth submissions from those normally outside ngTLD investing as well as those of us who concentrate mainly in the new extensions.

Your exercise has set a model for something we should all do regularly - evaluate the names in our portfolio, seeking opinions of others.

Thanks again,

Bob


ps Thank you for your kind comments fellow Canadian @MapleDots! Appreciate your energy and business savvy across so many threads in NPs.

 

[MapleDots]

Personally if I got the prize I would donate it to namepros in the name of the OP.

I don't think we should be paid for this, I think you either give freely or you go home.

Just my opinion.

 

[MapleDots]

I think Bobs gone out of his way to be nice

He's Canadian.... it's in his nature

 

[BaileyUK]

I think it's brave of anyone to list their entire portfolio on domain board but then again some people have thick-skins.

I strongly admire those trying to think ahead in this game. BUT, that does require a strong financial commitment. I'm not about to tell you just how much I made in domaining over twenty years but it has been good to me I did come in (1999) trying to think at least 8 to 10 years ahead. It took a lot of time studying plus I was already well qualified in business and technology since 1984 (local/private network stuff)

My concern is lots of investors in the new tlds may think it's going to be a short return. Nope I don't think so, If I was motivated (and new to the domain-game) it probably may well be me going into the new tlds but I would be planning on a 7+ year hold and the finances to meet that commitment.

Given the lead the OP has taken in his comments and posts on Ntlds, I'm surpised he's not a native English speaker and is seeking advice himself. but hey it takes a lot to open up like that. Hopefully all new investors in this field are coming to realize there really are No experts at the moment because it's all new . Particularly to the business world

 

[hawkeye]

Good news!!
Whenever a group of humans is so certain you are wrong, there is a great chance you are right

And then there's the better chance....'they' are right!

 

[Laguna]

Well after looking at your portfolio even I'm surprised at your lack of .coms to be honest.

 

[Rinkuji]

homes.center

(could be better but plural kills it)

neuroscience.market

(medical term (non profit) with wrong TLD (commercial) - .Com available)

sweets.express

(Personally don't like - Actually Mike Mann owns SweetsExpress.com and guess what, he is actually selling it for mid XXX may be lowest price offer of his portfolio. No need more explanation)

being.gold

(who want to become gold?)

yellow.estate

(these kind of brands best suited with .Com - what's better to tell your customers I'm owner of Yellow dot Estate OR YellowEstate(dot)com)

cryptical.life

(no such word - correct word is cryptic)

virtualreality.town

(one sell till date of this TLD - Meaningless)

flowershop.vip

(Is it shop for VIPs to buy Flowers? - .Com available)

karate.show

("Show" is different thing - wrong TLD - could be best with .video / .game)

selfdrivingcarsfor.sale

(soo long - only 3 sell till date of .sale and all are single dictionary - BTW selfdrivingcars.forsale is available to Reg and its better than this)

and last but least ...

Brands.International

(Worst name as ngTLD domain market place. As you are selling only ngTLD then at least your website name should be related to .website .domains .name .site .shop .store etc. and it must match with keyword like Domain.Name The.Website Get.Domains Name.Shop Brand.Store etc. If you cant chose best name for yourself then how you can help others to build their brands)

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Hey @lolwarrior sorry brother it may be bit harsh but its reality.
20% Names are good in your portfolio. 20% are OK and 60% are Junk. Its time to redevelop. Best Luck.

 

[Brands.International]

I've seen your website few weeks ago and my advice would be to quit newGTLDs and start from the scratch with .com, .org or even .sk. The renewals will kill your business.

There is no way I am going to quit new gTLD and start with .com or .org

If you still believe renewals in new gTLDs are high, you can learn some tips and tricks in the thread I started few weeks ago - after you read it (it is long, I admit) you will see that renewals of many new gTLDs are actually lower then those on .com or .org.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/new-gtlds-renew-or-drop-advice-thread.1110552/

In the thread here, I am only seeking advice on quality of keywords in my portfolio - this is not usual new gTLDs vs .com Namepros thread. Thanks for the understanding.

 

[Elad n]

forfast.sale - just dont get it
cryptical.world- cryptical ? no go
achieving.life- no sense in it
flowershop.vip 2 words +vip and not the best ones
luxurycarsfor.sale - just 2 much imo .

good luck!

 

[wwwweb]

forfast.sale - just dont get it
cryptical.world- cryptical ? no go
achieving.life- no sense in it
flowershop.vip 2 words +vip and not the best ones
luxurycarsfor.sale - just 2 much imo .

good luck!

You make a good point as I believe .sale, and .forsale are both extensions.

So luxurycars.forsale could also be another option for a buyer. Adds a lot of confusion when branding, and marketing.

It’s a tough go, as you are teased by these strong keyword terms, but having random dots in places they don’t belong make it very tough to move. They put them at $4.99 first year registration, and then they get you with an auto renewal, and then you emotionally invest yourself into the term, as you have no choice now.

Luxury.Cars ok now we taking, but a $2.8K annual renewal make it an only end user buy.

Don’t get me wrong I would say about a dozen or so domainers grabbed all the good stuff with eap and low rewnwals in the first 2.5 years, half of them are probably still fluid. After that it was high premiums, and reserves. Most extensions are rewriting business plans, and taking high premiums, and reserves off in trying to jumpstart their dead extensions.

 

[NickB]

Keeping it on point (I just wanna be in for a shot at that $50! Being the betting man I am)

1) stars .team

From a grammar perspective it should be "Star Team" unless your angle was the Dallas Stars and even then that really limits your end user pool!

No sales data for this year so 2018 sales below for "team"

cloud.team 3,436 USD 2018-12-27 Sedo
cloud.team 137 USD 2018-11-18 Dynadot

The above is a really strong keyword and fits in great with the extension and just shows what a tough sell this extension will be for you.

2) NYC.click

I personally do not see the connection between the 2 words, when I google it I see a model agency, ticket sites and a few photo galleries but are they going to think this is an upgrade? Probably not.....

No sales data for 2019 + 2018 so sales data for 2017 below

fb.click 520 USD 2017-10-24 NameJet
fb.click 520 USD 2017-10-19 NameJet
pre.click 388 USD 2017-07-31 Flippa
clickity.click 625 USD 2017-07-26 Uniregistry
clickety.click 900 USD 2017-07-25 Uniregistry
x.click 8,000 USD 2017-03-23 Uniregistry
marketing.click 588 USD 2017-01-19 Flippa

Again this extension is going to prove a really difficult sell IMO

2) adventures.vip

I know where your coming from with this! Exclusive access to places, holidays etc. But grammar wise they do not fit, this should read "VIP Adventures".

"adventures vip" only has 10,500 results for a reason

No sales data this year so 2018 sales data below

tuigirl.vip 151 USD 2018-09-30 Dynadot
0202.vip 126 USD 2018-05-08 4.CN

Again the odds are against you with this extension.

4) beginning.one

This should read "one beginning" So again is grammatically incorrect

No sales data this year so 2018 sales data below

insurance.one 603 USD 2018-10-15 Dynadot
tix.one 408 USD 2018-09-02 GoDaddy
bar.one 100 USD 2018-08-08 Sedo
arena.one 3,000 USD 2018-07-14 GoDaddy
bar.one 160 USD 2018-07-10 Sedo
meta.one 4,550 USD 2018-07-09 GoDaddy
mvp.one 5,000 USD 2018-03-06 GoDaddy

A few sales from last year, but nothing to set the world alight.

5) free.institute

I am not feeling this one, it does not make sense to me and the majority of searches for "free institute" come up with a science museum. Very few end users for this one IMO.

Namebio has NO sales data for this extension

On the positive side you have some great names on your site!!

All the best with your future sales......

 

[cabotower]

the elephant in the room is this question.why don't you like .com?

 

[wwwweb]

First of all let me commend you @lolwarrior both for this innovative idea. Maybe we will see more of this on NPs after your lead, Also congratulations on your overall superb portfolio. So many great names!

But you asked us to be critical, so here are my comments (these are in no particular order - I used _ instead of . in case you did not want search to find your names in this thread):

LIFE
I like a lot of your .life names (e.g. kind_life, holy_life, prosperous_life even cheap_life which might work great for me personally ) but the name reach_life does not really work for me. I mean I can think of possible applications, but the combination for any of them seems contrived and unnatural to me. By the way moon_life also does not work for me, even though I generally like astronomical names and it does feel elegant. So maybe some end user would have the perfect fit for it.

VIP
I am not very expert in the .vip extension, but I do see that it works well with many of your names - e.g.portrait_vip for a photographer who specialized in portraits of well known people, etc. The name PostCards_vip does not work for me at all, however. I don't associate getting a post card with VIPs. I have trouble imagining an end user that realistically would pay a reasonable amount for the domain name.

WORLD
This is one of my favourite ngTLDs and I like a lot of yours that range from superb match names outside the business world (e.g. blessed_world) to practical ones that a business would see as a great name to use (love e.g. baking.world in your portfolio). The one .world domain name that you have that doesn't work to my way of thinking is pleasant_world. Yes, it makes a statement, but pleasant just seems too mild. I don't see it as having the energy a good domain name should. Improving_world also does not work well for me - it says something positive, and I could see it being used, but I don't see it as clean and precise as most of your matches across the dot. By the way, domainers_world is a pretty nice domain name for a reference site, publication, etc. for this community. I definitely think we will see more .world extension names in use in the future.

GOLD
I'm not very knowledgeable of the .gold extension, and maybe it is my science background keeping me from seeing other uses of the word, but the domain name massive_gold just doesn't work for me at all. I could see massive with other ngTLDs like .science or .tech etc. but for .gold, not for me. I like a lot of your other gold, names like her.gold and lovely.gold are much better in my opinion.

MARKET
Clearly .market is a great extension and I like a number of your names that work well with it. I also think that neuroscience is one of the most important areas of science. The developments of the past decade have been amazing, and so will the next. It has allowed us to better understand thought processes, learning, memory, degenerative mental diseases, and various mental illnesses. Techniques like fMRI allow us to even see live indicators of thought processes. All of this has also served as a model for certain neural network based AI techniques. So no doubt a super important term, neuroscience. To me it does not work with the .market extension though. What exactly would neuroscience_market sell? Equipment for conducting neuroscience? It works for that, sort of. Prescriptions? No. I like TheDomain_market and nanotechnology_market somewhat, but not neuroscience (even though I hold that word in some other ngTLDs myself).

HOSTING
I suspect many on NPs will disagree with me on this one, but I'm not much of a fan of blockchain_hosting. My reasoning is blockchain as I (perhaps incompletely) understand it is a distributed ledger. To me that is sort of contrary to an association with one hosting service. I think you have some fantastic hosting names such as dream_hosting and unlimited_hosting and others. And I know the world is blockchain enthusiastic, but I don't like blockchain_hosting a lot.

SALE
I must admit with both .sale and .forsale TLDs, I have sort of always been troubled by both (sort of feel similarly with extensions available in both singular and plural - e.g. .loan and .loans, since I see end user confusion). That being said, some .sale and .forsale work betters than others. For me ByOwnerFor_sale does not work. The English would be For Sale By Owner and altering the order to fit the phrase with a TLD seems contrived and not memorable or clean to me. Personally this one if it was mine I would either let drop or sell cheap. Just my humble opinion.

AGENCY
I like this extension and feel it has a good future, but your domain name travelling_agency does not feel quite right to me. Of course travel_agency would be an incredible name, but at least around here we don't refer to travelling agency.

ONE
A great extension that works for many companies - e.g. one of your superb names is biotechnology_one. It is a perfect memorable, positive name in an important area. A+! For me, the name idiot_one is not in the same class. Quite apart from if it is a politically incorrect use of a mental health condition, what company or organization would use it? Maybe a sarcastic comedian or celebrity. Anyway, I don't like the name at all.

STORE
This can be a great extension and I like some of your names (theFresh_store would be one - great for a fruit and vegetable market or chain, for example). To me TheNew_store is weak (not terrible but weak). Any store hopes to be in business awhile so why brand on being new? Or if you mean sell new things, most stores do. It's just too general to be good in my opinion.

Thanks for giving us all the opportunity to weigh in, @lolwarrior. It is an interesting exercise and I learned in going through your portfolio. It is always worthwhile to reflect and evaluate. Here I focussed on the few names I did not like, as you requested, but the vast majority of your names are superb examples of the very best that ngTLDs can be. Any of us can learn a lot by looking at your portfolio.

Have a nice day, and best wishes for further success.

Bob

(ps Maybe it is my aging eyes and/or monitor, but I did find a few of the light yellow ones hard to read clearly).

Pay this man the $50

 

[Brands.International]

the elephant in the room is this question.why don't you like .com?

Well, because I do not own time machine, unfortunately ... would I start 20 years ago, I would be all about .com. It would be only COM COM COM...

In 2019, my logic dictates me that I am not going to pay someone $500 000 for a dictionary word they registered 20 years ago (but I respect their vision, and wish them all well, of course), when I can get something very similar for $5 - $50 ...I will leave that privilege to other people

 

[Bob Hawkes]

name of the marketplace, would you personally maybe prefer names.media or thename.market comparing to existing name brands.international ?

I actually prefer your existing one, brands.international. It feels a little more prestigious to me. I don't understand the concern of others re name.

Bob

 

[Recons.Com]

I would advise to visit https://fancy.domains by @Fancy.domains

He has got a great grasp on word combos that work and he has written before that his portfolio is mostly made of lower renewals from $x to $30 or so.

Regarding your names:

VIP: the unfortunate thing about this extension is that VIP is normally 1st word in a combo. Meaning, VIP Residence makes sense, Residence VIP - not so much.

TheLas/Vegas: just doesn't make sense. No one says "The Las Vegas".

Morning/Host: doesn't make sense, if you are targeting a hosting company. They work round the clock )

Africa/Email: too niche. Email solutions require huge investments and maintenance, so there are handful of players and they favor short premium .coms or premium cctlds and new players are rare. Especially, from/for Africa.

TheDomain/Market: 1) too niche, i.e. targeting domain investors, who normally are cheap when buying and know that at $xxxx they would get much better reseller options; 2) The+word might work for .com and even then 1/100 to 1/500 of the word.com and hard to sell. 3) you already have 500 pound gorilla in domainmarket/com and no one is going to pay xxxx for a name that is confusingly similar to an established player with 320 000 names listed.

You also have way too many The+Word.extension names. Again, "The" is widely used, but mostly by the cheap guys, who did not want to pay little extra for a premium name. The premium name of Word.Extension has to be easily worth $xx,xxx to $xxx,xxx for "the" version to be investment grade.

BitcoinsFor.Sale: doesn't make sense, as bitcoins cannot be for sale. They can be exchanged for another currency. Generally, your word+for.sale domains are very weak. Not worth holding.

Czech domains dot online: You might get some interest, but actually selling one will be surprising. I have had great words for those Slavic countries in .com and zero interest or interest, but not willing to pay above $200. Again, with that chance of sale, you have much better options elsewhere. Unless, you are creating your own market by actively promoting it offline, but even then, you could have made better with something else. What is awkward here is that "online" is an English word forced together with a Czech word and probably spelled differently, even for the same word, in Czech. Onlayn or something?

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Thank you for all amazing posts so far!

Lol, poor domain name Free.Institute seems to be getting lot of heat

Also Homes.Center got many many negative reviews (and to be really polarizing name, it also got 3 fantastic opinions, but not listed in this thread). This only shows that there are so much various opinions as there are various people. Saying that, I take each and every feedback into consideration, gratefully.

Few more hours to go before winner is announced

I did not comment on that name earlier but I love homes(.)center! Could see use for a home renovation or furnishings store chain or as a centralized set of listings for real estate. Also could work well as some sort of reference site for FAQs re buying and owning homes.

I see Free(.)institute as much more niche. I am sure good uses for it exist but whether enough to make probabilities of sale worthwhile not clear to me. It would be a fun name for a coupon type culture that shared how to get free stuff, rather grandly calling the membership an institute.

The exercise has shown that clear differences in opinion exist for many domain names even amongst those with expertise! Each day's NameBio list has many sales of names I would not have regarded very positively.

Hope you get some additional portfolio feedback before your deadline. The sharing of thinking has helped us all learn.

Bob

 

[MapleDots]

Congratulations @Bob Hawkes and @lolwarrior for putting on such a spirited contest.

I think the topic had some incredible responses and Bob was a deserving winner

 

[mr-x]

Quick glance, what I don't like.

idiot.one - too negative
massive.gold - uncomfortable in US English.
loving.gold - doesn't make sense.
being.gold - meh..

I like eternal.gold
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Good luck.

 

[~ The 34 Year Buzz!!]

Good news!
Whenever a group of humans is so certain you are wrong, there is a great chance you are right.

Don't give up too soon on the gTLD's.