domain insurance-california.co

[alber5901]

I am just starting to learn about domains. I purchased insurance-california.co over a year ago without doing much homework. Could you please explain the logic and tools you use to appraise this - so I can learn how to do it right in the future?

Thank you in advance.

 

[dompro]

$0, because of all bad things:
1) proper keyword "california insurance"
2) hyphen
3) .co << WORST
.co *might* would have some value with californiaInsurance.co, but not with hyphen and reversed order

 

[.NJ]

Agree here ^.

Keyword+Hyphen+Extension= $0 value

Stay away from .co unless you have a very strong keyword. Actually stay away from .co overall until you have better feel for the industry.

Same goes for hyphenated words. The hyphen works well sometimes, but only with certain combinations and only with .com and sometimes .de.

Read....read....and read some more and it will soon all make sense.

Welcome to NamePros

Good Luck

 

[johname]

Please get your money back if you can $o

 

[alber5901]

Would it change the picture if, instead of resale, I developed the site as a directory for California insurance agents (my original intention) ?

I am a professional web designer/developer with multiple hosting servers (unlimited domain hosting) at no additional cost because I already maintain them. I also have existing insurance clients in California.

Or is that particular name simply not worth the time investment? Should I look for an alternate ?


p.s. I guess I used the Google adwords tool wrong - because I jotted down the below. Looks like I used the broad opposed to "exact match" results?

keywords: insurance california

Competition: Medium

local monthly: 368,000

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p.s. under circumstances where you intend to develop a site for traffic:

1. are dashes bad even when there is nothing else available?
2. what is the lesser evil: .co, .us, .biz, .us.com ??

 

[Kate]

Would it change the picture if, instead of resale, I developed the site as a directory for California insurance agents (my original intention) ?

Any domain can be developed, but is it worth it ? You can throw up a minisite but the domain won't do much to instil trust. Insurance is serious business after all.

 

[iowadawg]

Bad domain really.

Bad tld for the keywords.

Bad keyword order.

Develop it?
And what?
You still have a bad domain.

Drop it, give it away, park it until it renews and do not renew it.

 

[dompro]

Would it change the picture if, instead of resale, I developed the site as a directory for California insurance agents (my original intention) ?

you can find a better name to develop (just saying)

p.s. under circumstances where you intend to develop a site for traffic:

1. are dashes bad even when there is nothing else available?
2. what is the lesser evil: .co, .us, .biz, .us.com ??

how bad dashes are depends on the quality of the keyword. Overall you can consider dashes as attempt to knock off the original domain/site that comes without dashes.
The same comes with other non-country TLDs when .com/net/org are not available.
Your list in the order of bad to worse:
.us
.biz
.co
.us.com - never even heard of