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Just wondering what the general thoughts are about whether the recent trend to legalize marijuana will boost the prices of pot-related domains?
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Thanks for mentioning this. A good friend of mine is also an investor in Cannabis stocks like Green Thumb out of Canada. His portfolio of cannabis stocks have done very well, and he's become interested in what I'm doing with domains. I noticed Granjapreneur also caters to investors like my buddy so I'm having him check it out for me.
On another note, because of his observations, comments and suggestions, I registered the following yesterday:
TacoJuana.com
JimmyJuana(s).com a play off Benihanas and the fact "Jimmy" is an appropriate nickname for a joint. Consequently, I may be looking at trademarking the name for a number of reasons.
CropaCanna.com
Finally, since I'm still new to this thread, I'll share a story about a personal experience I had from 50+ years ago using what I believe was some sort of cannabis to cure my Asthma attacks. When I was having an attack, my parents would put a tablespoon of a powdery substance called Asthmadore on a pie tin plate and light it with a match. The substance would burn like incense, and I would inhale the smoke from it. Within minutes I would stop wheezing, and voila! my attack was over. I no longer have asthma thank God, but Asthmadore was a miracle drug for me. Can anyone imagine inhaling smoke for a respiratory disease? It's been off the market since the sixties, but here is what it looked like:Show attachment 97513
Some way back in this thread someone in the industry said leaf names would be big so I got interested, maybe a bit late. Today I was looking at the Godaddy appraisal tool and it claimed all these sales, doesn't say when or where and not easily verified but interesting anyway.
leafpeople $288 (USD)
leafchief $1,695 (USD)
leafology $1,595 (USD)
leafway $2,395 (USD)
leafstore $2,995 (USD)
leafgarden $2,295 (USD)
leafology $1,595 (USD)
leaflab $1,195 (USD)
leafnation $499 (USD)
leafcreative $500 (USD)
leafsolutions.com $2,288 (USD)
leafdepot.com $777 (USD)
leafly.net $688 (USD)
releafmed.com $120 (USD)
leafpro.com $1,988 (USD)
leaflink.com $1,095 (USD)
leafroom $895 (USD)
leafnets $600 (USD)
leafline $3,388 (USD)
CannaBob .com
already received 2 xxx$ offers
Different platforms charge different fees for a variety of reasons, while other platforms charge nothing. Maybe it helps cover their time and costs to maintain the site. Maybe they want to dissuade folks from listing lower quality names. Your best bet is to search their ToS for answers, or simply reach out to them directly through their provided contact methods...IMO.
My thoughts...Leaf is a generic keyword!I always wondered why the word leaf would be so popular for weed names since it's not directly super meaningful.
Belladonna..not as in Beautiful Donna..nightshade, poison
Thanks also for answering my previous question about GEO + keywords!Bostonleaf, and Leafboston both I hold. Buyer has contacted me monthly awaiting his permitts. It's a painstakingly slow rollout in all states. 2016 excitement is 2019 on street level,its just delayed sales as I see it.
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No, you are not confusing thing..realized long time ago..government can really make thing complicated!Hope I'm helping, and not confusing things . The its complicated is especially true on the subject of regionals in cannabis.
Some way back in this thread someone in the industry said leaf names would be big so I got interested, maybe a bit late. Today I was looking at the Godaddy appraisal tool and it claimed all these sales, doesn't say when or where and not easily verified but interesting anyway.
leafpeople $288 (USD)
leafchief $1,695 (USD)
leafology $1,595 (USD)
leafway $2,395 (USD)
leafstore $2,995 (USD)
leafgarden $2,295 (USD)
leafology $1,595 (USD)
leaflab $1,195 (USD)
leafnation $499 (USD)
leafcreative $500 (USD)
leafsolutions.com $2,288 (USD)
leafdepot.com $777 (USD)
leafly.net $688 (USD)
releafmed.com $120 (USD)
leafpro.com $1,988 (USD)
leaflink.com $1,095 (USD)
leafroom $895 (USD)
leafnets $600 (USD)
leafline $3,388 (USD)
This is intersting data! I own about 15 short Leaf / X com domains. The Creative Leaf .com is my favorite and I am keeping it.
I have just two "leaf" related domains and I will leave it at thatLeaf
Carol was accurate, I'm big into leaf. Although it is only half of my few thousand domains in canna, leaf, mmj, 420 and cannabis, ganga, Mj and Herb as well as Cbd and a few regionals in States with a cannabis policy that will hand out alot of permitts.
With this sale on westleaf, and others there is a case for Leaf, abiet still a emerging market , nonetheless 20 grand is a true metric.
I also aside from Leaf domains I own a very valuable set of trademarks in a leaf domain in the equipment sector.
I do domains on the side, environmental control equipment for leafy greens and cannabis is my core income. I follow state by state legislation from a marketing hardgoods side of the industry. Cannabis is very tightly connected to the CEA industry. ( controlled enviorment agriculture).
More new companies in lighting, environmental equipment to nutrients. Let alone the street level stores and growers. The industry is going big. Just this last month 4 Billion was put into Cronos by Corona beer, another hundreds of millions by Smirnoff. Your going to see brands evolve in the medical to recreational to equipment someday.
Let me interject a few relevant points.
The first being that there was a 20k sale on a marijuana domain westleaf, any sale on this level is newsworthy, let alone the hotly debated word " leaf " on a cannabis domain here. They needed the other half of .com and the owner held out, and no it wasn't me, despite my inventory of about a thousand of comparable domains in leaf.
I turn down all offers under $1000 as well and I'll be honest, I've sold Canna and some others just to maintain my costs awaiting true roll outs of permits that hasn't occurred yet on any large scale. Im in no rush. Mind you large grows doesn't equate into domain sales. We need volumes of permitts in a " competitive " market that hasn't truly occurred yet with the 2016 ballot measure. Its simply a 2019 window. It's my firm belief that the craft market not the big players out there will consume thousands of domains in the 5k range. Their is no current craft market yet in any state. Craft is aprox 50 to 500 plants or 500 csf upwards of 1000. They will need branding. The big boys can go with brandables. But most will need a seo in the name, hard to convey what you do without the a reference to Cannabis. It's going to be Canna and Leaf and other soft words . Weed, Pot, Ganga, and others are harder to brand to the general public with negative prior mindsets pre dispositioned in peoples minds.
Bostonleaf, and Leafboston both I hold. Buyer has contacted me monthly awaiting his permitts. It's a painstakingly slow rollout in all states. 2016 excitement is 2019 on street level,its just delayed sales as I see it.
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It wasn't long ago that Cannabis was a unknown word, Canna? First guy to use it was Canna brands in 2014 if I'm correct. So this notion that Leaf has limited bandwidth, it's got as much as a opportunity as any word in this " new " marketplace. Ask Leafly, Leaflink, Leaf ( the cannabis grow box) sweet leaf, and others. Canna was new a few years back, who knows Leaf may be what everyone is using in a few years forward who knows.
I agree with Kieth , Ganga is dead, same with some other old school get high mindsets and marketing words.
Leaf.com the is still connected to a random leaf as in the ones on trees. If anyone here has ideas for the guy, I'd presume with leafly as the #1? cannabis website that Leaf is valuable. Who ever buys leaf.com will define the rollout of anyone holding leaf domains.
Despite the fact I don't post often ( it's not my day job) I appreciate Kieth, Briguy and Carol as well as others here. I regularly read this thread.
2019 and the future is looking beyond optimistic for us holding Cannabis domains. Many small towns in Massachusetts to California will ultimately have several canna shops, leaf shops and so forth. They will need domains. With no trademarks available on Marijuana etc. Domains to these end users will be especially important.
Best of luck out there, hold until you have a real offer. People will ultimately pay. It's a money plant after all.
Example Bostonleaf, it's a 3 year plan. And that's with a ballot intuitive that passed with flying colors.
As of late last week, 32 companies had submitted 63 applications for different marijuana licenses, including those for cultivation, research, manufacturing, transportation, and retail.
Sometimes super high prices are a marketing technique..see it all the time on ebay..price high..lurkers get curious "what so special about this crap name"..put in address.taken to real page for a way less offer..Then when I noticed WeedCreative(.)com for sale on GD for $74,995 I thought WOW! Does somebody know something I don' know?(not difficult).
What am I missing....if anything? Thanks in advance
Read recently (business site (article) about how they predict (stats etc) that the three big future markets are going to beCanadian business will need .coms and .ca.
Massachusetts and California and Michigan.