debate Should we BAN the Premium/SuperPremium words from Domaining?

[donnied79]

I don't know what you think but after 10 years of domaining I'm super-sick of hearing the words "Premium" or "SuperPremium" in any damn domain sale.
And I'm guilty too because I often use these terms. And then I realise that they're the most useless words in the world since every domainer says that his domains are SuperPremiums!

Buy now the SuperPremium domains:

- FishingWithFriendsInAHotSummerDay.cars
- LoveIsInTheAirForAllThePeopleThatStillBelivesInLove.Irish
- CarRentalCheapAndReliableInDublin.us
- CricketSoccerBaseballFootballVolleyballPokerHorseRacingPassion.com

 

[web3dev]

It's not premium unless it ends in .TOP

Agreed the same goes with the new gtld brethren, as it is they only who reserve domains as premiums. Some of the reserved names as premiums by your bots smell more of sh*t than fools who claims their domains premium.

However, I vote that @KINGOF.TOP should be exempted from this ban as he has devoted lot of time, energy, money, dream, aspirations, and what not for his you know which domain.

 

[Tassos]

In the old days ( 2003 and after) when someone was calling a domain Premium and it wasn't one or two words ( very strong keywords) com everybody was laughing at him. Even commenting at a sale thread was a must and without complains from the moderators. Try it now and you might get banned.
I remember at the appraisal forum , some domains like " ordered.com" getting $0 valuation - specially from someone called Ed ( or something like this) - cause it was past tense..
These days I offered a 2 words Super Premium .com ( meaning more than 150k exact searches per month for low $x,xxx ) and I got no answer.. It wasn't short chip domain and not a product. ( not my signature domain)
I guess everybody now thinks that they can buy "old school premiums" for $xxx and sell chips for $xx,xxx .
We could easily give the forum a new name SellingOnlyToChineseNamepros.com
And yes strong .info's can have value. I have seen info's ranking well for the keyword in the domain and that is a plus since gaining google traffic for other keywords with all that link building-seo looks impossible. An info with 200k searches per month is much better than a com with 20k per month if you are after google traffic

 

[DnEbook]

I think the term "premium" should be replaced with Happy Happy Joy Joy

 

[Tassos]

I think the term "premium" should be replaced with Happy Happy Joy Joy

快乐快乐喜悦

 

[usernamex]

 

[wakguano]

Owh ... i thought Happy Happy Joy Joy is kinda sexy massage .... with happy ending

 

[usernamex]

@wakguano - hey if it helps sell domains it can be whatever the buyer wants : wink :

 

[Templr]

Noted there are such premium names, but 99.9% of names on namepros are not premium.

 

[Templr]

The term 'super premium' has been adopted by (true) premium domain sellers because so many domainers are calling their PS premium.

 

[Kate]

Normally the forum has a filter feature that replaces/censors certain words like profanity.
Using the word 'premium' should trigger the profanity filter, or send the thread to a moderation queue

 

[HotKey]

Yeh the "premium" banwagon is awfully tiresome by now. You know its done for when you see the registrars offering:
"This Premium domain name is for sale!" and it's RoadKill4Dinner.com reselling for $5k or you do a whois search and the name expired 6 months ago but it's still coming up Premium.

 

[usernamex]

Oh man, that RoadKill domain is my Super Happy Happy Joy Joy Premium. : crying : Except mine is in dot mobi

 

[Kuffy]

Normally the forum has a filter feature that replaces/censors certain words like profanity.
Using the word 'premium' should trigger the profanity filter, or send the thread to a moderation queue

Should this apply to "top" as well.

 

[Kuffy]

Oh man, that RoadKill domain is my Super Happy Happy Joy Joy Premium. : crying : Except mine is in dot mobi

This is a very hurtful association for me, as someone drove over my best mobile phone.

Fortunately I wasn't using it at the time.

 

[Dave]

Why should I am going to sold you for $50, when I got xxxx offers!

It's funny, anyway I don't won any "premium or freemium domain".

Do you genuinely own iloveyou.com or has some sarcasm gone over my head? If you genuinely own that then that is a monster domain. 7-8 figures IMO. Unbelievable.. DO NOT take xxxx at all.

 

[domainer111]

The use of "premium/superpremium" in domaining though is interesting to me as it shows again the power of words.

A person in Sedo said to me once "every domain being purchased by an end-user is premium to that end-user".

That made some sense to me. We might label a domain after a type of bird flying around, but that's just our perspective. What about the buyers perspective?

On that note, I propose the price of every domain on BrandBucket be raised to 50 grand.

 

[Acroplex]

A person in Sedo said to me once "every domain being purchased by an end-user is premium to that end-user".
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Nonsense. Certain domains have intrinsic value, based on their characteristics, e.g. dictionary .com domains, short domains etc. Sure, an end-user might pay top dollar for a domain, but that doesn't make any domain an end-user buys "premium."

 

[domainer111]

And it starts again...*phew*.

Recent sales by Mike Mann AgriCool.com .. and previously ThrillOfTheGrill.com - those names are premium to those buyers.

 

[Marc Riccio]

What the H E Two Hockey Sticks does Age have to do with domains? Is this like cheese or wine? If I talk with a blogger and he is looking for a super name for said blog, should I look for a 12 year old name for x,xxx or hand reg a new name and sell it for xxx ?

What's Age got to do with it?

 

[Kuffy]

What's Age got to do with it?

It's like buying an old car - it can have problems associated with it - HP debt, or it could have been owned by a drug dealer.

Old domain names can be on spam lists, banned by Google, have porn associations or other difficulties.