domain Please Appraise HŽ.com

[gc1282]

I registered this 2 character Internationalized Domain Name HŽ.com 2 days ago. It has 90,500 local exact searches in the country of Croatia. Anybody wanna give it a go with an appraisal?

Thank you,
Gabriel C.

 

[hopkism]

The size of the potential audience would concern me. What would it stand for in Croatian? I am curious about this one though and would love to hear other thoughts.

 

[eurorealtor]

The size of the potential audience would concern me. What would it stand for in Croatian? I am curious about this one though and would love to hear other thoughts.

You are right, but the best way is to ask someone who speak Croatian and know the country. I have got quiet few IDNs LL.com including letter č which is the fist letter for Czech Republic by Czech language, and I see potential in it, because of grooving business and companies looking for .coms.

 

[gc1282]

I'm not Croatian myself but I'm guessing the majority of the people that type in HŽ are looking for the company 'Hrvatske željeznice' which means Croatian Railways.

 

[Dotmainer]

... hard to tell, but from my point of view 0$
There are better names to invest in.

Con:
- Domain was avaible (so they dont see value/need for your domain)
- Railways Company have domain ->
(think how much they need to spend to rebrand)
- If they are going to go with that HZ then they would take cctld
- If they think about international, they would not choose .COM They can take .HR or .NET (because .net know ~ same amount of people that know .com)

- You dont know how to develop it

So there is only chance if you find someone who develop it, but developed can be on any other extension.
And its one of smaller countries, so potential users are very limited.

 

[wwwweb]

Reg fee

 

[gc1282]

Interesting to read others opinions, keep 'em coming. HŽ doesn't necessarily have to stand for 'Hrvatske Željeznice' (Croatian Railways), so I'm not too concerned with attempting to sell it to them. I'm sure this acronym could stand for a few other words. I also know that 'рф' (letters RF in Russian) sold for 60k in 2010... and it was a dot com. Now as far as I know, because of a few past IDN sales of mine, I know for a fact HŽ.COM is worth way more than the registration fee or even $0... so I'm going to have to disagree. Appreciate the opinions, more are welcome.

 

[Kate]

Ž is also used in Czech, Slovak + a few other Slavic languages I believe.
But LL/LLL acronyms are typically written without accents/diacritics, especially for international use.
HŽ might be acceptable for domestic (Croatian) use but then .hr should be used, not .com.

I have seen plenty of LL/LLL like this one being registered for domainers and I doubt that they have any resale value.

 

[gc1282]

Obviously a domain such as this is limited to the countries that have this letter on their keyboard. And that is exactly who the main potential buyers are; the people from those countries. In the end, it really all comes down to how you advertise and market HŽ.com in the countries that use the letter ' Ž '. I'm well aware that '.hr' is Croatias ccTLD; but if you were to advertise and market the site HŽ.com... than people are going to go to HŽ.com... not '.net', not '.com.hr', and not '.hr'. For certain this name is valuable to someone in Croatia, Czech Republic, or wherever else the letter Ž is used. Forget about which extension is attached to it. I've discovered plenty of Croatian dot com websites. Now, if you're talking about monetizing this domain by parking it... pretty hard to do; this isn't a "buy to park" domain... I wish it were - has a decent amount of searches - 90,500. More opinions welcome.