Quality domains which end users want

[cdnbigd]

Hey Guys,

I've been looking at this forum and other forums as well as Sedo, Bodis, GoDaddy auctions, AfterNic, DN Journal, etc.. to see what kind of domain names are getting sold or bid on. Most of the domain names I see just surprise me. I have no idea how some of these domains are getting bids and sold.

I'm looking at Google Trends and other market trend sites but most of the trends I see relate to people and products (both of which are probably trademarked most of the time). I still see people reg domain names with the same name of a certain new company that just went live or a new app that just went live (mostly .net which the company buys from them). A lot of domains which I see have gone for thousands have less than 50 searches per month, relatively new or fresh reg site, no PR really, not even pronounceable. Can't think of many but here's a couple:
travel-pirates.com (even with a hyphen)
backyard-stuff.com
hehuoren.com
iphone6.com (wouldn't that be trademarked?)

How do you guys find the quality domains which end users will actually want to buy?

 

[navdomains]

Apart from the last domain, iphone6.com which should have literally been trademarked by Apple but have no idea, it is surprising to see the other three being sold for thousands.

Good keyword included in a domain name is one of the major catching point that end user find when they buy or even register domain name but sometimes its upto the end user like the 3rd domain name you have mentioned. I simply cant make sense what actually it is and what market it would cater to.

 

[Kate]

hehuoren.com

Maybe a Chinese word ?
http://glosbe.com/cmn/en/hehuoren

 

[navdomains]

Maybe a Chinese word ?
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Spot on sdsinc! It is indeed a Chinese word and it means partner or associate.

 

[cdnbigd]

Yeah, I saw that it was a Chinese word but even at that, I wasn't sure why it has decent value. Won't chinese people by typing in chinese characters and/or be looking at .cn sites?

At least with niche sites, it's easier to tell what kind of keyword domains to look for. For domaining, it's quite the lotto.. I'm still not sure what constitutes as a valuable domain. If we take age of the domain out of the factor (if i can't afford one that's aged), then it seems i'm looking for a short prounceable word that's either related to a trend, hot topic, many global monthly searches(?), brandable..?

Thanks guys.