Non-English 1-word .com names - What's their value?

[the_poet]

Consider one-word names which are premium in their respective languages, what value do they have? And Are they normally bought by same language-speaking domainers or are they valued worldwide?

 

[mis_chiff]

Consider one-word names which are premium in their respective languages, what value do they have? And Are they normally bought by same language-speaking domainers or are they valued worldwide?

Without being specific about the name, it's impossible to guess the value.

 

[Jaco]

I bought ileride//cm, which means something like "in the future" in Turkish which I thought was pretty cool (and has about 2.5mm google results) but buying non-(your-native-language).com's is a very risky proposition.

 

[the_poet]

Without being specific about the name, it's impossible to guess the value.

I'm not looking for an appraisal about a specific domain. Just talking about non-english words which are not very popular (or are not known at all) in the English-speaking world (it's undoubted that keywords like 'spaghetti', 'mundo', 'noir', etc, have a market at least as the normal English ones). Do English-speaking domainers (who represent the vast majority in domaining) have an interest for this kind of 1-word .com domains?

 

[SiberForum]

What is the language of that one word domain names?

 

[the_poet]

Well, for example it could be Spanish, French or Italian.

 

[SiberForum]

Well, so then you can estimated how many people can understand the meaning around the world

 

[Gregg Hall]

Foreign Language Domains

It not only depends on the word, but the language as well. Spanish is a HUGE market, while Dutch or French for example are much smaller. In domain name values, it is still all about potential traffic and revenue.

Gregg