show your Big data related domain names

[nebulalive]

Big data = Big bucks
The term big data is now here to stay as with the cloud, it seems repackaging can work wonders!
Unlike other buzzwords like “agile”and “SOA” in the software industry, Big data has already proven to be a keeper!
It is not going to go anytime soon it is a multi billion dollar industry, Big data is officialy the hottest thing since sliced bread.
What Big data Domain names do you own?

 

[jideofor]

You've been a member for a long time, you should know what kind of names do make sense... or not.

Exactly!

 

[oldtimer]

South Africa is about the only country in Africa that would really adopt big data in a big way. The rest of africa just doesnt have the IT infrastructure, budget or professionals for this type of tech. To be honest, the won't really care about big data, there are much more pressing issues they have to worry about

Big Data technology is what is going to help solve a lot of the problems in Africa. IMO

The "Big Data World Africa" conference that was held this past October in Johannesburg wasn't just about South Africa.

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What about BigDataAntarctica.com

Antarctica is a happening place with like a population of one!

Great honeymoon spot.

I see this name sky rocketing!


Hahah, felt like be funny!

BigDataAntarctica is not funny at all, as the matter of fact it might actually have great development potentials. IMO

Although Antarctica is lacking in population, but “ Predictive Big Data “ technology can help us get a better idea as far as the environmental changes that are taking place in that continent.

 

[jideofor]

You will struggle imo because companies won't buy a name like this because:

They are specific to a certain country, not a whole continent, it doesn't make sense for a south African company to own bigdataafrica.com, BigDataRSA.co.za or BigDataService.co.za would make more sense

South Africa is about the only country in Africa that would really adopt big data in a big way. The rest of africa just doesnt have the IT infrastructure, budget or professionals for this type of tech. To be honest, the won't really care about big data, there are much more pressing issues they have to worry about

I am from Durban and go back to see family every year, so I am not just some outsider guessing what happens in Africa

South Africa also primarily use .co.za

99% of Africa won't even know what big data is...

Development might be your only option, but I think it will be tough to monetize this one

Just my opinion, good luck buddy

Truly Giles has spoken well and it aint furthe from the truth.

South Africa is the only country that will do well with this trend and the sales of domain in their extension has made a fellow domainer, who is a member at DNF, rich.

When you think about stuffs like this, the development going on in a country should also be factored.

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So, based on all said, where else should we be looking apart from the .com? What other extension(s) could be the next to get hold on?

 

[FX]

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[DnEbook]

please note ......bigfarta/com is available ...........whoops wrong thread

 

[carob]

There are no decent hand-regged names available in .COM and there haven't been for a while

Well I was impressed with the streambigdata name someone kindly pointed out was free and then another member grabbed it pronto. Cost of data transfer seems to be a factor in really using cloud and big data. No surprise a lot of good bigdata regs have been made in Korea in 2011 and 2012 - they have the fastest broadband in the east, well actually in the whole world. Also bigdatacruncher was free till recently - will someone regret breaking their teeth on that one?

Looks like all the standard domainer suffixes and prefixes are long gone - I wonder if those are machine registrations? I agree some of those registrations look unsellable.

bigbaddata.com was taken in 2011.

Some names like bigdataafrica to me are category killers but then I wonder if scientific and other entities will be just fine with using .org or whatever. Yes ice melt may make Antarctica into a farming hotspot and landgrab...

Ultimately the opinion that matters is the enduser buyer, not domainer cheerleaders and critics.

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South Africa is the only country that will do well with this trend

Things can change fast - once Kenya got their own undersea cable and went broadband things exploded. There is also plenty of software development in Ghana and other African countries.

AfricaElectricity.com was sold recently for €1500

 

[oldtimer]

Ultimately the opinion that matters is the enduser buyer, not domainer cheerleaders and critics.

Well said, but these are not real critics here, the only reason that they put down all hand regs across the board (not only in this thread, but all the other ones too) is because hand regging domains is against their business model which is based on selling their leftover domains to unsuspecting newbies. They claim that they are keeping those newbies from making mistakes, but when the newbies need help these so called critics usually ignore their questions, or worse they ridicule the newbies for even asking a question.

 

[GiftedDomains]

This name is not good for reselling and quite ugly with 2 hyphens, but if someone wants to develop a site in these early stages and try to secure a place on first pages of google for this keyword, this might be helpful:

Big-Data-Storage.net


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One Name which i found in Pending Delete Status:

BigDataHelp.com

I think its not bad.
Will drop in 4 days and needs to be backordered.

Edit: 2 more Names in Pending Delete, also dropping 28 November

BigDataTec.com
BigDataEnterprise.com

 

[eyedomainous]

Running all these negative criticisms through Big Data Analytics shows that some people here might actually be a little bit jealous of all the quality hand regs that they see in this thread.

Jealous? No. Some just don't get it. Big Data is a BIG concept.

BigDataAfrica.com, for example, is a great reg. The U.N.'s 'Global Pulse' is beginning to leverage Big Data to drive development. Widespread cell phones are a broad data points network. Rich NGO data sets, coupled with significant, and timely, infrastructure investments from multi-nationals, make it a near perfect storm for Big Data in Africa.

The lack of a national government bodes well for the continent -as there is no central control. Africa is ideally positioned to benefit from the full potential of Big Data governance.

People also don't realize, Big Data is a personal economic asset. The structure will most certainly have a Data Bill of Rights... where people Own their data and can opt-in to share it for economic considerations, like "club" discount cards, or the phone company asking to use you info to offer you specific deals.

Antarctica is another huge big data focal point, from climate change data gathering, and its impacts on species and the entire freaking planet, to mineral deposit data gathering to draw the lines for the coming clash of nations.

But, there is a "population" that is a Joke in this thread.

Think BIG or go home.

 

[Blitzpotz]

AfricaElectricity.com was sold recently for €1500

Nice find, which can both approve and disprove Gilescoley. While huge parts of Africa do not have any electricity you may have said this domain does not make sense. The original registrant had the Desertec plans in mind, the project to produce sun power and export it to Central Europe. Well, the domain buyer is a company in UAE, they use the domain for an annual energy conference - in South Africa.

My conclusion: You never know the real value of a domain when you handreg something. This is more an art of domaining or like collecting stamps but will seldom be successful in dollars. If you are a bigger boy with more cash and more experience you may do what Gilescoley does, buying top names in the aftermarket for cheap. In my understanding this is real, mature domain investing.

Ultimately the opinion that matters is the enduser buyer, not domainer cheerleaders and critics.

Wow, if there are the ten commandments of domaining, this must be one of it.

And don´t let us forget: This is a showcase thread.

 

[GiftedDomains]

I don't think that members like sdsinc, gilescoley, etc. are jelous at all or plan to sell their domains and don't like handregs, etc.
Thats just their honest opinion based on their experience.
It is a fact that only a fraction of the domain names mentioned in this thread are going to be sold in the future (some of mine most likely included in the "not so good choice" list too). This was always the case with all trend domains (cloud, etc.).
So no need to be rude or this kind of extreme "take it or leave it" attitude, if someone is just straight forward.

The question is not if big data is going to be the next big trend (i think we all confirm that it will be). The question is if all names which are regged and bought today and mentioned in this thread (and elsewhere) are wise choices. And i am ready to bet with anyone that probably only max. 10% will be sold in the future for amounts above xx. I am not a negative person, just realistic.
That was always the case with domains and that will always be the case with domains.

 

[mrcurly]

Looks like the offers are starting to come in via Sedo -



BigDataForum.org - 1 Offer
BigDataBases.com - 1 Offer

 

[GiftedDomains]

bigdatabases was regged 1999

it was probably thought as Big - Databases (at that time the term bigdata didn't exist)

same with bigdatafield. it was intended as Big - Datafield (Datafield is a term on its own)

I guess those offers are older.

I think it will take a little longer before we see interesting sales.

 

[mrcurly]

Delete post pls.

 

[GiftedDomains]

It wasn't cause I know the owner!

Well then he killed two birds with one stone.

 

[mrcurly]

delete post.

 

[gilescoley]

Well said, but these are not real critics here, the only reason that they put down all hand regs across the board (not only in this thread, but all the other ones too) is because hand regging domains is against their business model which is based on selling their leftover domains to unsuspecting newbies. They claim that they are keeping those newbies from making mistakes, but when the newbies need help these so called critics usually ignore their questions, or worse they ridicule the newbies for even asking a question.

I dont ridicule newbies or put their names down and never have, just trying to give some advice to try and help a little and maybe stop them from making the same mistakes I made and save them some money, thats all, if there is anything wrong with that, then I a guilty as charged

And by the what oldtimer, I don't sell my names to any "unsuspecting" newbies...its not really my style

Ask around and you will see I reply to a lot of new poster's PMs and try and help as best I can and maybe point them in the right direction.

The "Big Data World Africa" conference that was held this past October in Johannesburg wasn't just about South Africa.

It was about the rest of Africa, but that will take 20 years to develop into anything profitable as most of them don't even have the infrastructure for this, it was just a PR exercise to try and educate the countries involved and try and make them aware of what it is or how it works

I certainly hope you are right when you say it will solve a lot of africa's problems

Ultimately the opinion that matters is the enduser buyer, not domainer cheerleaders and critics.

You are spot on there, my opinion doesn't count when it comes to selling these names, but I hope it counts a little to someone who might be regging 70 hand-regged names and then they get stuck with them for 5 years spending a fortune on renewals only to sell one 5 years down the track

All I am saying is most of the names are gone already, I mean this "big data" threadon ly started a few months ago, a lot of names were gone 2 years before that, it is just a better idea to email around and spend $200 on 1 decent name and make a nice profit on it, rather than spend $500 on average names that might never find a home

Running all these negative criticisms through Big Data Analytics shows that some people here might actually be a little bit jealous of all the quality hand regs that they see in this thread.

I dont think jealousy is the word that springs to mind oldtimer

Nice find, which can both approve and disprove Gilescoley. While huge parts of Africa do not have any electricity you may have said this domain does not make sense. The original registrant had the Desertec plans in mind, the project to produce sun power and export it to Central Europe. Well, the domain buyer is a company in UAE, they use the domain for an annual energy conference - in South Africa.

Blitzpots, this doesnt prove anything, this is a great name, electricity is a necessity all over the world and most countries in Africa have it in the urban areas and its just the rural areas that don't have it. Electricity is used on a daily basis in most countries in Africa

Big Data is new and you cant really compare this to electricity, its comparing apples to oranges

Anyway, good luck

 

[Kate]

The question is not if big data is going to be the next big trend (i think we all confirm that it will be). The question is if all names which are regged and bought today and mentioned in this thread (and elsewhere) are wise choices.

The problem is that people don't do their homework, they just heard about the latest buzzword then they go hunting for domains. Of course bigdata.com is taken so they try variations, add prefixes/suffixes, but the domains make no sense at all. Because they don't know what it is all about and what big data means as a concept.

Predictive domaining is not for everyone, you need to do research, otherwise you are burning money ablaze.
(How are those 3D/cloud registrations coming around ?)

By the way I still handreg domains sometimes (especially when I'm the end user) but not often lately.
Nothing wrong with handregs but you need to raise the bar high enough.

I have a genuine interest in the matter, I have sold a couple business intelligence domains too.
I think businesses will want domains that are somewhat unique/brandable. Certain keywords like data, mine or even data + crunch are good if the combo is meaningful.
The domain doesn't have to actually contain the string 'bigdata' unless it perfectly makes sense.

 

[oldtimer]

Certain keywords like data, mine or even data + crunch are good if the combo is meaningful.
The domain doesn't have to actually contain the string 'bigdata' unless it perfectly makes sense.

Although a lot of the startups are using brandable domains that don’t contain the string “BigData”, but some companies might prefer to have Big Data included in their name in order to emphasize the fact that they are capable of handling Big Data as opposed to the smaller quantities that were being handled by regular data storage, processing, and analytics companies in the past.

As with any new trend there are some things that no one can guaranty either way and we all know that there is a level of risk associated with registering predictive domains, but I still believe that BigDataAfrica.com is a great domain with a lot of potentials.

 

[carob]

I dont ridicule newbies or put their names down and never have, just trying to give some advice to try and help a little and maybe stop them from making the same mistakes I made and save them some money, thats all, if there is anything wrong with that, then I a guilty as charged

Hi Giles your posts are very helpful and informative, thanks and keep on posting.

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The problem is that people don't do their homework, they just heard about the latest buzzword then they go hunting for domains. Of course bigdata.com is taken so they try variations, add prefixes/suffixes, but the domains make no sense at all. Because they don't know what it is all about and what big data means as a concept.

Very very true. Most of the good domains are gone, but with some luck or dropcatching you might find good ones - for some of us that is an enjoyable challenge. The trap people fall into when you get a domainer feeding frenzy, such as with tap, cloud or 3d, is thinking "Well at least I can grab some second class domains". Well you can grab them but you can't sell them.

Inevitably in these threads you get experienced people telling you to be careful with your money and you get enthusiasts convinced a keyword will carry any other word you stick to it. Time will tell.

I'm finding this thread very interesting - I had ignored big data as a domain area but having got interested I did find a few nice names. A big thank you to everyone in the thread for all the info shared - we are competitors but we all enjoy the same sport and like to see it done well.

 

[oldtimer]

Here is a couple of companies that specialize in Big Data:


PentahoBigData.com

BigDataMaps.com


Interestingly enough Pentaho also uses Pentaho.com

 

[jideofor]

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[DU]

Although a lot of the startups are using brandable domains that don’t contain the string “BigData”, but some companies might prefer to have Big Data included in their name in order to emphasize the fact that they are capable of handling Big Data as opposed to the smaller quantities that were being handled by regular data storage, processing, and analytics companies in the past.

Big Data is meaningless in the context that you are trying to use it. What's is handling "big data" versus smaller quantities? Think of this in terms of Next year vs this year vs last year.

Cloud has a long term brandability and an abstract meaning that is long lived in a much bigger universe of potential. ANY online service can be "cloud".

There has ALWAYS been big data but it is now just being marketed. The key is in data analytics, leverage, and usability but the market it much much smaller.. not that many are capable of handling big data - it requires specialism in people and technology.

Even "TAP" and "WAVE" have more overall usability potential.

For FX: Streaming data analytics is the real key technology, imho :lol:

 

[mrcurly]

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[oldtimer]

Big Data is meaningless in the context that you are trying to use it. What's is handling "big data" versus smaller quantities? Think of this in terms of Next year vs this year vs last year.

Cloud has a long term brandability and an abstract meaning that is long lived in a much bigger universe of potential. ANY online service can be "cloud".

There has ALWAYS been big data but it is now just being marketed. The key is in data analytics, leverage, and usability but the market it much much smaller.. not that many are capable of handling big data - it requires specialism in people and technology.

Even "TAP" and "WAVE" have more overall usability potential.

For FX: Streaming data analytics is the real key technology, imho :lol:

A few years a go Big Data capturing and analytics was measured in terms of megabytes per second, now at the present time we are talking about terabytes per second with storage capacities being measured in exabytes of data. The term Big Data will probably stay the same but it’s meaning as it relates to processing and analytics speed will change greatly as time goes by.

The next generation Big Data capturing and analytics is going to reach even higher speeds making Big Data Visualization an important tool for presentation and understanding of what Big Data technology has to offer.

Anyways I am not here to argue with the naysayers over this, I just want to find a few good domain names like BigDataAfrica.com . To the extent that all this relates to domaining, it seems that Big Data is a term that might even surpass Cloud in the near future if not amongst the general public, but at least between Tech Companies and their clients in Big Business. IMO