Is "buy" a good prefix?

[A. Person]

Is "buy" a good prefix if a domain I want to register is taken and buy makes sense with the other words in the domain?

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

it's up there among the best "call to action" keyword prefixes like

Buy
Shop
Go
Be
Fly
Visit
Try
Find
Search
Do
Eat
Use

I invite others to chime in here.

 

[N-A]

I don't see why not.

I've bought some domains from BuyDomains before...

 

[RJ]

Yes, if it makes sense (like you said it did) then I would say it's a good alternative. I like the prefix because you pretty much know what to expect to see on the website before you even visit it. Here are some successful websites and businesses that use the buy- prefix and you can see what I mean:

www.buydomains.com
www.buycostumes.com
www.buybrakes.com
www.buyfabrics.com

source: alexa

 

[EmotiveDomains]

It sure is. When a new product or technology comes out, the buy prefix domain usually gets regged straight away.

For example, just see how many extensions BuyDrones is taken in.

 

[Cdomains]

I've had many "buy" domains over the years.

Some with pretty decent keywords.

Never had an offer on one.

Over time I had to drop them.

Also have had "shop" and "order" as the prefix.

Same results.

 

[Cdomains]

When I check on some of my past, dropped domains of this type I see they have been making the rounds from one domainer to another, and I have not seen one that I have dropped, sell.

I think it could be a good prefix to do outbound marketing on, if you are into that.

Never tried it with the ones I had.

It could work.

 

[Dominic Belley]

it's up there among the best "call to action" keyword prefixes like

Buy
Shop
Go
Be
Fly
Visit
Try
Find
Search
Do
Eat
Use

I invite others to chime in here.

I suppose Get could be a good prefix too.

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

I suppose Get could be a good prefix too.

I forgot that one.

 

[aramyus]

As a consumer, and only as a consumer, I don't like this prefix. I think I'd rather look for something more informative if I were in a buying mode.

From a domainer's point of view, it's a moderately popular prefix with only 60-70 domains reported sold in namebio each of the last 2 years (and the average price in 2016 was only ~400$.)

An other indicator: I found only 32 shops using 'buy' as a prefix in a sample of 70k+ shopify stores.

Not very promissing IMHO.

 

[LaunchUp.com]

I suppose Get could be a good prefix too.

And got

 

[A. Person]

Buy is surely a very popular search term. But I guess Google doesn't consider keywords in the domain much these days?

 

[Kuffy]

I've got BuyAny.com (buy any dot com). I haven't done much with it, but I plan to develop it as I re-immerse myself into the domain trading market. I also registered buyany.xyz to use with my new found interest in xyz names.

 

[frank-germany]

I've had many "buy" domains over the years.

Some with pretty decent keywords.

Never had an offer on one.

Over time I had to drop them.

Also have had "shop" and "order" as the prefix.

Same results.

how long is .. over the years ?
expect 10 years before a sale happens
and all is fine

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

BuyHyundai.com

 

[frank-germany]

BuyHyundai.com

maybe thats a domain you want to skip

 

[spooksy]

maybe thats a domain you want to skip

Maybe it's Hyundai's CEO enjoying his part time domaining

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

maybe thats a domain you want to skip

No no Frank it's an actual live site domain used by Hyundai in ads lol

 

[Kuffy]

Google owns BuyTheLie.com

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

Google owns BuyTheLie.com

Now that's ODD.

Kinda creepy too.

Are you sure it was not Google as the registrar ? Lol