domain HomesForSale.LA

[trigatch4]

Homes For Sale gets over 1 MILLION OVT results and Los Angeles has a huge Real Estate market.

I think this is a GEM.

 

[DotWeekly]

Great name, bad ext. I have seen zero sales with the .LA ext in the past couple weeks. I'm not even sure what the ext is for, which leads to people not typing it in due to safety reasons. I would make an adsense site with the domain. IMO

 

[trigatch4]

My thoughts

I suppose I'm from a different "School of Thought"

The Real Estate Market is intensely competitive and the great domains are all taken in the top "typical" extensions. If you owned a Real Estate business in Los Angeles, could you find a better domain name? I don't believe so...

It is highly brandable and memorable. Pointing all advertising initiatives to HomesForSale.LA - your home source for Los Angeles - would be an incredibly powerful tool. I see this extension as an ADDED value for this domain name.

Again, with intense competition, why would an agent in Los Angeles NOT want to have this added competitive edge over their competition?

To the smart business person that purchases this name for $xx,xxx - it WILL pay off in the long run! (not to mention I picked up HomeForSale.LA - the singular - to handcuff the couple).

Time to market the name!

 

[DOMiNIC]

I don't see a business as professional as real estate, stooping to such a low trick as using the Laos extension for Los Angeles. I would think from a development point of view that the search engines would question the relavency of the Laos Extension for a US real estate site too, all the best luck, maybe I'm wrong.

 

[trigatch4]

Low Trick?

"Stooping to such a low trick?"

First of all, you are just plain wrong. Please visit http://www.la/ and see that THEY ARE THEMSELVES branding the .LA extension as Los Angeles.

Second of all, it's called BRANDING! The .ST extension is seen as "Street" and .TV is Television and the list goes on... are the countries representing these extensions "stooping to low tricks"? I think they are practicing smart business tactics - utilizing their resources to best exploit the opportunity at hand.

And please, while you may be tempted to reply with a "if you ask for an appraisal, don't complain about opinions you get"... this comment is of a different breed. It's one thing to tell me my domain is worthless - it's another to question my morals and ethics by making a low blow comment that is both unfounded and off target.

 

[Halobitt]

I'm all for the .LA extension.
So what if it's for Laos. It only takes a tiny mental leap.
Other extensions are gaining in popularity slowly but surely.
Of course it's not gonna happen overnight, but if I sold property in LA,
I wouldn't hesitate to use a .la extension.

 

[Convergence]

Country code extensions are going to take a few more years before they take off. This one is actually pretty good. If you visit LAHomesForSale.com you'll notice they use it as an "intro" page to flatfeelisting.com/california.htm.

Hang on it to it as long as you can - at least 3 years as more and more large companies are using "vanity" domains to market specific products and services.

Good luck with it!

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[DOMiNIC]

I'm sorry if my opinion offended you in anyway.

Maybe nic.la is promoting the .la extension towards Los Angeles, .tv is a different ball game together and the marketing of .cc (credit card? ) .ws (website) .in (internet) have not been great success stories. Canada could have marketed the .ca extension towards California or Spanish Companies C.A. I have been involved in Real Estate most of my life in one way or another and was involved in a real estate website that failed for reasons I predicted to my partners before the project began.

Personally, when I see the .la extension my first thought is actually Louisiana as La is the states initials.

Maybe I'm wrong and I wish you all the best, but real estate agents are very Snobish about their appearance and for Realtors established before the internet, MSL listing sites and independent real estate listing sites are a 'thorn in the side' that they have had to manipulate to their advantage.

Even if .la is appropriate for Los Angeles Realtors I think you could find available or buy for a bargain a better .la domain.

If you are serious about developing a real estate site, I am happy for you to P.M. me with any questions or for advice that maybe of assistance to you.

"Stooping to such a low trick?"

First of all, you are just plain wrong. Please visit http://www.la/ and see that THEY ARE THEMSELVES branding the .LA extension as Los Angeles.

Second of all, it's called BRANDING! The .ST extension is seen as "Street" and .TV is Television and the list goes on... are the countries representing these extensions "stooping to low tricks"? I think they are practicing smart business tactics - utilizing their resources to best exploit the opportunity at hand.

And please, while you may be tempted to reply with a "if you ask for an appraisal, don't complain about opinions you get"... this comment is of a different breed. It's one thing to tell me my domain is worthless - it's another to question my morals and ethics by making a low blow comment that is both unfounded and off target.

 

[trigatch4]

Last bump

 

[Dave44]

Excellent name and extension. Ender user - Mid $xx.xxx to low $xxx,xxx
Reseller - Low #x,xxx to high $xxx

The extension is a definite plus for LA homes. Usually country extensions are used in dubious ways such as: yes.no (Norway) or even worse: si.lk (Sri Lanka).

People ignore extensions if the branding is right. In this case most people will assume there is a special extension just for Los Angeles.

Great domain name.

Dave44

 

[ekal]

My 5 cents:

1) only professional domainers will realise that .la means laos
2) some traffic will leak to homesforsale.com
3) most real estate agents have horrible domain names because getting the best names is competitive - I just spent two days researching this for a client and was horrified with some of the domains I saw marketed.... homes4UinNorthGA.net, northcarolinahomesandmansionsforsale.com (not real examples). A wiser realtor will see the advantages in your name.

Overall, your name won't be easy to sell but could fetch mid $XXXX when it does.

 

[toughguy]

I have no idea of $$.. But this domain has the potential to become a popular portal. But why it is restricted to LS only ????

 

[almarti2]

I think the big question is how much an end user will have to spend on marketing and promotion to make sure consumers type in the "." and that he/she does not lose traffic to: www.HomesForSaleLA.com

Otherwise they will be spending an enormous amount of money to just give away leads to http://www.jimshogren.com/

I would warn you to be very careful in offering this name "To the smart business person that purchases this name for $xx,xxx - it WILL pay off in the long run! (not to mention I picked up HomeForSale.LA - the singular - to handcuff the couple)..." because you may end up with a very unhappy and potentially litigous customer.

-almarti2

 

[trigatch4]

Litigous?

How can you sue someone for selling you a domain name? I bought Papa John's pizza because they said it was delicious, but when I tasted it, it was terrible. That doesn't give me a right to sue them.

I'm not promising anyone huge results. I'm promising them the potential for huge results with an excellent domain name... they have to activate the opportunity. (Unless they'd like to hire me as a marketing consultant)

Actually, thanks for pointing this out... as I will contact the owner of HomesForSaleLA.com about purchasing the domain! Thanks!

 

[hawkeye]

I bought Papa John's pizza because they said it was delicious, but when I tasted it, it was terrible.

:lol: I agree!!

 

[DOMiNIC]

I think the point is that most professional realtors will have their website named after their companies name.

Just like lawyers, realtors tend to call their companies after the longwinded names of their partners like Whitlock, Longhorn and Jefferson.

As realtors are responsible for selling their clients assests that are often valued in six and seven figure amounts it is essential they don't portray the image of a smooth talking, slick and slippery used car salesman. I think this also applies to lawfirms and antique and dealers of fine arts.

Any other domains a realtor may purchase, would be to redirect traffic to their site.

A professional established High Street Realtor spends thousands of dollars a week maintaining their Shop/Office and advertising full page colour spreads in local newspapers, so any realtor with a decent business brain would not hesitate to spend money on the best professional sounding domain available with traffic and for this reason I don't think this .la domain is appealing but I'll be happy for you if you proove me wrong.

The other side to modern real estate is independent M.L.S Multi Listing Service websites, however the competition in this business requires the M.L.S site to have as much property listed as possible to achieve high Search Engine Placement, and for this reason a .la address reduces the territory that provides the listings and prevents the scope for expanding the business outside of Los Angeles.

I wish you the best of luck, my suggestion would be to search out individual, part time realtors who don't have a website and don't have sufficient funds to establish a physical High Street Office.

 

[almarti2]

What I meant when I said litigous was that though people in the domain name aftermarket focus on the UDRP and ACPA, there are also legal issues that may come up when trying to sell a name that does not have significant quantitative value (traffic, conversion on traffic).

Any domain name has "enormous potential" with a correspondingly enormous investment. Im sure everyone has seen (or made) many claims of "enormous potential" or a "million dollar name" that would require 2 million to make it worth that. There is a fine line between a sales pitch and creating an implied warranty of fitness or otherwise causing a buyer to unduly rely upon your "expertise." Imagine how upset a buyer would be if they spend 10,000+ on a name, in deference to the buyers "expertise," only to find when consulting with their web developer that it will require tens of thousands more to generate any traffic, some which may go to competitors. I think that merely saying "caveat emptor" is insufficient, and anyone that drops a ton of money on a name, relying on the seller, may be inclined to litigate. Remember, even if the claim will not ultimately prevail, as long as it is not dismissed it is costly for both sides, and any clever lawyer could make a claim worth the court's time.

Trigatch, I'm not trying to pick on you, your name is quite clever but shaky in ROI given how much you implied you would sell it for, so it offers a good example of my point.

Best,
almarti2

 

[createmx]

$0

Just like the domain I had: Create.la

 

[Epic]

.la isn't really a great extension, but this domain has some potential for a sale to a Los Angeles realtor.

Low $XXX if you find the right buyer.

 

[DOMiNIC]

Just out of interest, how much does nic.la charge? The only info. I could see was that "it costs less than $1.00 a day".

Also interesting to see that they have a 'Premium Domains' Coming Soon announcement. I guess this means that premium domains will be priced accordingly in the future, much like the .tv system, so I suggest anybody who wants to take the plunge on any single word .la domains should do so now.