I'm seeing English dictionary words in the drop lists

[Kuffy]

What's going on? A few years ago they would have never made it onto a deleted list.

 

[Kuffy]

One thing I would ask the OP - so, are you saying that even dictionary words of this low domain quality were not appearing as deletes/drops before? Because if so - then, okay! this thread has some meaning - that even crap dictionary names did not appear as available before now. Is that the case?

Which, not to belabor (belabour? lol) the point of how garbagey these names are, but - these are dot coms - typically the realm of U.S. companies/users, so British spellings that might be apposite in a .co.uk are completely out of place in a dot com. A U.S. company/user is going to look for a British spelling in its website? I don't think so.

At last you seem to have understood the point of the thread. !0 or so years ago, it was difficult to find any dictionary word names as I remember. Now that may be because the tools and resources for finding names now are better, or it could be that people kept and used them rather than blendwords.

The vast majority of the names in threads like reg of the day seem to me to be unwise registrations, and I think that all of the names I mentioned have possible social or political uses, Will I get to use them? Possibly, but then I start so many projects without completing them, that maybe they will sit on the shelf for a year or so, but at least they are there for me to use if I do decide on a project for one of them.

I think that you are living in the past and need to get up to speed with .coms. .US is the American TLD. .coms have names registered in a variety of languages, and a variety of character sets. it is a transnational TLD. I agree that " English" spellings may not be the most popular, and this is as a result of an affectation for Americanisms, and mis-pronunciation in the past. I think it is sad, because it causes a loss of the derivation of the words. However, this thread and forum is about the use and marketing of domain names. and English spelling of domain names may be more important for .uk names than for .coms.

The other thing that has come out in this thread is the elitist attitude that any name that isn't worth £10,000 or more is rubbish. (The use of Sterling was deliberate). There are many members here who are comfortable with registering and selling names in the $20-$300 range, and I suspect some make a comfortable living from them.

 

[Kate]

Actually, there are plenty of better domain names that can be registered. Instead of obscure dictionary words that nobody ever uses, you would rather buy longer, less generic domains. If you combine two dictionary words you can also make some interesting (and brandable) combos.
The dictionary has been mined to death in .com for two decades. Good keywords seldom drop. Garbage is dropped every day.

I wonder how you are going to develop a name like Pasteurises or Putrefact. I don't even think it's worth developing. I think these names are terrible from a branding POV.
A name should usually be commercially viable if you want to resell it. If you're selling a developed site, it's different, then the value is in the contents and traffic, not the domain proper. Again, any domain can be developed but is it worth it ?
If you could register these names for regfee, then their value is not even in the $20-$300 range. It's more like $10. Can't see a comfortable living out of these names.

 

[Kuffy]

Actually, there are plenty of better domain names that can be registered. Instead of obscure dictionary words that nobody ever uses, you would rather buy longer, less generic domains. If you combine two dictionary words you can also make some interesting (and brandable) combos.

I pick up those as well.

I think (not so ) obscure dictionary words can make interesting brandable sites. I am aware that they don't seem to be popular. inchoate.com is parked at GD without ads. I would have thought that could make a site about some legal problems. crepuscular.com is parked with stock trading links on it - that's really stupid. Huge domains owns coruscating.com which they seem to have picked up from drop catch - they are asking $2,293 for it.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Didn't read the whole thread but I have let 2-3 english dictionary words go in the last year...many more over the last 5. Just because it is a 'real' word does not give it a great deal of value (unless developed). Words ending in ness, ing, etc can be good if the origin word is brandable. As of now I only have 2 that end in 'ing'.

btw, a couple ing/ness words dropped yesterday...almost grabbed one!

 

[DaveX]

Very hard to find mainstream dictionary words. More obscure variations you can find easily.

I would rather have a popular made up word domain than a dictionary word most never heard of.

No shortage of cash with domainers. If they drop its because noone wanted it, it has no obvious value, or is not commercially usable.

 

[Kuffy]

If they drop its because noone wanted it, it has no obvious value, or is not commercially usable.

In their opinion, or maybe they hadn't tried to sell it.

There seems to be a wide range of abilities and knowledge in the domain world, and also a substantial lack of application in many. I suspect that this is one source of gold for us.

 

[promo]

What's going on? A few years ago they would have never made it onto a deleted list.

Thats because a few years ago crap like that would not have been registered. But recent years have seen a huge influx of noobs that will reg anything. Once the dime drops, the name drops and opens up for another noob, like yourself, to pick them up on the drop and announce them as being golden.

 

[Kuffy]

Once the dime drops, the name drops and opens up for another noob, like yourself, to pick them up on the drop and announce them as being golden.

I see that l2.org was first registered in 2000, and I assume that wasn't your first name, so we probably started investing/speculating in domains at about the same time.

I have never said that the names are "golden", and I've made a lot of money in my life by selling iron.

 

[DaveX]

I have two domains for example that are dictionary words and they might get one or two offers per year. And they are decent words.

 

[promo]

Sorry to hear that Kuffy. Guess some people can never get ahead no matter how early they start.

If you really started in 2000 I would advise you that its about time to research what sells, have value and whats going on in the domaining community. Your posts all bears evidence of very little knowledge/experience which you really should have amassed by now.

 

[xynames]

The “better” names will get more frequent offers but “waiting for the right buyer” applies to all domains.

 

[xynames]

I've made a lot of money in my life by selling iron.

Is this a metaphor or are you a scrap metal dealer because I recall your saying something about that.

 

[dnk]

Advertising revenues have decreased drastically due to google monopoly, corporate espionage, so many domain investors cannot afford to register and renew keyword domain names as their revenues have declined

 

[promo]

Advertising revenues have decreased drastically due to google monopoly, corporate espionage, so many domain investors cannot afford to register and renew keyword domain names as their revenues have declined

Yeah thats not it. If they can not afford to renew them then that must mean they are not worth 10$. Which in turn means they should never had regged them.

If they cant afford to even reg a name I would say dont quit your day job.

 

[xynames]

Of course it’s not so much about not being able to afford $10 (or in my case $8) if you have hundreds or thousands of domain names. Then it’s simply a business decision about which ones to let go.

 

[Bonsu]

I was of the opinion if it's one word then it's good until I got no reply for raciality.com after loads of outbound. Success @Kuffy

 

[promo]

Of course it’s not so much about not being able to afford $10 (or in my case $8) if you have hundreds or thousands of domain names. Then it’s simply a business decision about which ones to let go.

Well I am past the days when I would buy names to drop them. Its more of a risk if you handreg names. Once you get more confident in your buy choices you wont need to worry about whether to renew a name or not. If you paid 1k for a name 10$ is not much of a further Investment.

 

[xynames]

Well, I mean I have names that I've been paying $8. (now) and of course more (then) per year, going back 15 years or so, coming up on 16. Many were picked by the manager who was running my domaining for many years, when I was the finance end only, many with no input from me. Sometimes the decision to drop them must be made. It's a somewhat unique situation though in my case where there are many names in my account that I personally did not pick.

But even if I had picked them all, after holding a name for 5 years, or 10 years, or 15, sometimes will notice that the keywords are dated and not so great anymore and time to drop. This may happen especially with tech and consumer goods related keywords. I'll throw an example out there... "dialup" lol. Not that I had any domains with that keyword but just by way of illustration. Or "modem."

 

[promo]

Well, I mean I have names that I've been paying $8. (now) and of course more (then) per year, going back 15 years or so, coming up on 16. Many were picked by the manager who was running my domaining for many years, when I was the finance end only, many with no input from me. Sometimes the decision to drop them must be made. It's a somewhat unique situation though in my case where there are many names in my account that I personally did not pick.

But even if I had picked them all, after holding a name for 5 years, or 10 years, or 15, sometimes will notice that the keywords are dated and not so great anymore and time to drop. This may happen especially with tech and consumer goods related keywords. I'll throw an example out there... "dialup" lol. Not that I had any domains with that keyword but just by way of illustration. Or "modem."

Personally I dont think you find more low level keyword .coms in the drop because of keywords becoming obsolete nor that advertising revenues have fallen for online advertisers. But naturally you and dnk are entitled to your views.

I think its because so many low quality names have been regged by noobs in recent years and they are now dropping. You wont find any quality names dropping outside of the usual estate sales from deceased domainers.

 

[Asfas1000]

I agree with most people here, those words will be hard sells.

That said, I noticed that Putrefact is the name of a band, if you contact them, and they don't eat you alive (they are horrifying !), they may be interested.

Coact is a verb and there is a site on coact.org.au and one on coact.com. It's a shame it is not a noun too (ie. "the coact", like "the act"), if that was the case, the plural "coacts" would be a word (as in "coworkers"). As it is, it is only the 3rd person of the verb, pretty much unusable.

I have one such word in com, "forseek". It's an archaic term that I just like its sound and pay $9 yearly to Verisign so I can see it sit in my account. ie. I don't think it will ever sell.