Thanks to all!
Mr. Bannen, how many exact GMS must be in order you say that there is a good domain? I found two domains with 9900 exact GMS, but not yet registered it.
Depends what you plan to do with a domain. There are too many criteria for me to write about here, I could write for hours what makes a good name and bad name. When you are planning to create a minisite or do some development, a name with good searches is essential, unless you plan to spend time/money marketing a brandable name.
To build a minisite with the intention of monetizing it with Adsense, you want a name that has a minimum of a few hundred searches, though thousands is better. But it's not just about searches: if you have a niche term, and there are very few other websites on google that are about this niche, then you have a good chance of your website scoring high in the serps and getting more traffic.
But then there's also the SUBJECT of the domain; it might get high searches, but have few or no advertisers and almost no one will click on your Adsense. As an example, the term HowToMakeHashBrowns.com is still available to register, it gets over 8000 searches. However when you type in 'hash browns' to google, there are no advertisers. And it is a 5-word term; it is very difficult to rank a long phrase like this high in google's serps. So I have never registered it, it would not be worth building a minisite with adsense for this one.
A propos, you can check the following “Premium” domains by GoDaddy:
FresnoHoliday.com $1100, less than 10 exact GMS.
OpenPanama.com $1595, less than 10 exact GMS too.
DiscoverMadagascar.com $3588! Only 46 exact GMS.
Can you explain this?
As Johname mentions, it doesn't matter what people are trying to sell these names for, what matters is to look at what names actually SELL for. People can ask $5000 for a name, but maybe never even sell it for $20.
Also, the names you list above are BRANDABLE names, as opposed to TRAFFIC names. With traffic names, you are selling or developing with the hopes that these names can eventually bring in traffic income through a monetized, developed site. With brandable names, the traffic doesn't matter, you are selling a name based only on how attractive the name sounds. For example, 'custom cars' is a great search term with high searches; 'kustom karz' is a brandable name with no searches, but the owner of this domain hopes someone will like it enough to buy it.
Different guidelines apply to brandable names vs traffic names.
Mr. Johname, itperson.com is for sale for $25,000! I think there is no such serious difference between itperson.com and itpersons.com. And itpersons.com can not cost $0, when itperson.com costs $25000.
Once again, itperson.com is LISTED at 25000 - that doesn't mean it will sell for even $100. You never know. And the 's' often makes a huge difference. For example, Listed.com is a very valuable name... but I had Listeds.com for a couple years and could not get even $10 for it, I eventually let it expire.
In short, there are many, many, MANY aspects to take into account when buying or regging a domain, I can't write them all in detail here. Keep hanging around the forum. Look at the 'your reg of the day' thread, and threads in the 'available domain names' section, and the other appraisal threads, to see what kinds of names are being bought and appraised well, and the kinds that are appraised poorly
