discuss Showcase and discuss travel domains

[MolaRam]

Travel is big.... and its getting bigger. What travel domains do you own and what kind of value do you think travel domains will have?

Travel domains ending in .travel or .flights would be particularly interesting to see.

 

[abcproductions]

MarijuanaTrip(s)
PotTrip
PotFriendlyTours
BotAirTravel

Sold CannabisHoliday for $5300 and MarijuanaHoliday for $3500 five months ago. Both hand regs.

 

[Dave]

Destination / io

Could be used for travel, travel apps, software or tech.

 

[Eric Lyon]

OfficeDrift.com - drifting/nomadism is a niche category of travel.

 

[FolioTeam]

I have both singular and plural for
Appren/Trip(s)
Appren/Travel(s)
Appren/Tour(s)

in .com

 

[NicTraders]

Hi Everybody !

Do .travel domain names like one word city name + .travel have a chance to be sold in 2019 from high xxx to low xxxx ? Any feedback from someone here who make a sale like this in the past ?

I've received 3 offers for mine (two after outbound contact from me) , quite low xxx as I consider the name is worth much more but I don't know with my little experience if I do it well so.

I don't own any .travel names but judging by past sales at NameBio it will come down solely to demand.

These are the only comparable sales I found:
miami.travel 400 USD 2019-06-20
ostsee.travel 10,760 USD 2019-03-15
paris.travel 5,950 USD 2017-09-03
puntacana.travel 4,200 USD 2017-04-20
siam.travel 1,240 USD 2016-09-09
mallorca.travel 2,866 USD 2015-06-21
newyork.travel 5,000 USD 2013-05-22
bangkok.travel 2,000 USD 2012-10-17
crimea.travel 5,000 USD 2011-01-18
europe.travel 5,000 USD 2009-03-24

From this I glean that there are 10 recorded sales (of similar names) in 10 years. That's not many.
A premium name like Paris went for only $6k, while Ostsee holds the record at almost $11k! Miami went for only $400. [Obviously there will be some unrecorded sales, but we can't comment on them.]
So, sure - there is the potential of high xxx to low xxxx, BUT you need to consider how often these offers might come up. There is a good chance that if you don't do a deal now you may not get another offer. But that is the risk we take on a lot of domains like this. You might consider doing a deal on 1 or 2 of the domains to cover some costs then hold the better 1 or 2 for a potential pay-day. Just a thought... I'm not sure what you're paying for renewals but last I looked .travel wasn't real cheap - renewal costs should be considered.
All the best.

 

[griff]

Only own one that I got due to a big discount on the regular price and thought it sounded neat. However as you guys are saying, the new extensions that have high purchase/renewal fees are quite unattractive to domainers/most end users, shame as it could be quite popular otherwise

 

[getniche]

I've got TripHacker.com, VacationReviewer.com, Vacazen.com, DreamVaca.com and FoodRetreat.com!

 

[Brian Baird]

Voyair/com. I think it's a nice combination of Voyage and Air.

 

[lock]

ACCOMMODATER dot com
http://www.definition.com.co/accommodater.html

 

[NameSellingcom]

QualityCruises.com
SoTravel.com
SpecialTravels.com
TravelPurchase.com
TravelRecords.com
TravelSolar.com
VacationNeeded.com

 

[Jeremyah]

I don't own any .travel names but judging by past sales at NameBio it will come down solely to demand.

These are the only comparable sales I found:
miami.travel 400 USD 2019-06-20
ostsee.travel 10,760 USD 2019-03-15
paris.travel 5,950 USD 2017-09-03
puntacana.travel 4,200 USD 2017-04-20
siam.travel 1,240 USD 2016-09-09
mallorca.travel 2,866 USD 2015-06-21
newyork.travel 5,000 USD 2013-05-22
bangkok.travel 2,000 USD 2012-10-17
crimea.travel 5,000 USD 2011-01-18
europe.travel 5,000 USD 2009-03-24

From this I glean that there are 10 recorded sales (of similar names) in 10 years. That's not many.
A premium name like Paris went for only $6k, while Ostsee holds the record at almost $11k! Miami went for only $400. [Obviously there will be some unrecorded sales, but we can't comment on them.]
So, sure - there is the potential of high xxx to low xxxx, BUT you need to consider how often these offers might come up. There is a good chance that if you don't do a deal now you may not get another offer. But that is the risk we take on a lot of domains like this. You might consider doing a deal on 1 or 2 of the domains to cover some costs then hold the better 1 or 2 for a potential pay-day. Just a thought... I'm not sure what you're paying for renewals but last I looked .travel wasn't real cheap - renewal costs should be considered.
All the best.

Thanks for your detailed answer @NicTraders !

I should consider better this little offers so, as you're right : the renewals are expensive. Or even better, on .travel a right website info with good content marketing could be great for increase a value. A spanish company started few yeard ago to buy a large portfolio of city name + .travel and create some simple website infos guide about the destination to attract traffic. Or, use them as a redirect to a .com DN.

Like porto.travel (second biggest city of Portugal) bought for 5,950 USD on 2017-09-03. It redirect to : oporto/com now

 

[NicTraders]

Thanks for your detailed answer @NicTraders !

I should consider better this little offers so, as you're right : the renewals are expensive. Or even better, on .travel a right website info with good content marketing could be great for increase a value. A spanish company started few yeard ago to buy a large portfolio of city name + .travel and create some simple website infos guide about the destination to attract traffic. Or, use them as a redirect to a .com DN.

Like porto.travel (second biggest city of Portugal) bought for 5,950 USD on 2017-09-03. It redirect to : oporto/com now

Yes, I noticed that Spanish company quite a lot in the sales lists. It looks like they did ok out of it. But it depends whether you have the time to develop the sites, and the money to pay for renewals. I like the idea of one-word City-name .travel domains but you have to make fairly regular sales to pay for the renewals.

 

[NicTraders]

* Triplogy

Nice one.

 

[MolaRam]

ll start...

 

[Henry Y]

otravel/net

 

[mondal nazmul]

ComeToEnjoy.com

 

[lock]

Voyair/com. I think it's a nice combination of Voyage and Air.

sounds like voyeur tbh,

 

[Blessing Etim]

Cruiseandhike/com
Cheaptravelcruise/com

 

[mirul]

Traveleto /com
LodgingHero /com

 

[mAd MaX]

TourismNorthMacedonia.com

Selling it, any buyer?

 

[OIO]

Bermudaallinclusive.com

 

[Amit Aswal]

Yourtraveltrip.com. It's 2 year old domain.

 

[Jeremyah]

I own Travel2bangkok.com and valencia.travel


I've seen that .travel domains for Spanish City were sold for good price and I was surprised to be able to by the Valencia.travel a week ago (third spanish city).

- alicante.travel 1 691 $ (USD) : Bought by a booking website about airport transferts
- benidorm.travel 1 744 $ (USD) Bought by related tourism/travel guide benidorm website

As I said in my presentation thread, I'm a newbie so I keep learning and I'm quite interested about the potential of .travel and travel related domains.

 

[HK123]

Aya/tour/com

Aya just google it!!!