Sticking an e before word - Example eBay

[gazzip]

Hi, I am currently thinking of getting a dropped domain that has "e" in front of it

Example only - efrenchrealestate.com

What do you think, would it still get alot of traffic if it was parked, because of the keywords - french - real estate ?

And also what does sticking an e on front do to the price of say the example given ?

Thanks all

 

[bbalegere]

I think you will still get traffic.The 'e' does not matter.

 

[netzilla]

I think you would be fine as long as you have a strong keyword that you are sticking in front of it.

 

[gazzip]

I think you would be fine as long as you have a strong keyword that you are sticking in front of it.

Thanks, do you any thoughts on how much less it would likely to be -

ie - not a brand name and something like the example frenchrealestate.com

% wise ?

 

[RegFee]

I think in order for an 'e' name to be valuable, it typically has to have a one-two syllable noun or a short verb after the e. Example eDiet.com, ePoker.com. Sometimes the 'ing' will help, such as eLearning.com (better than eLearn.com imho) Just keep in mind that the 'e' means 'electronic', so don't get anything that doesn't make sense with that word. And don't get a eTWOWORDS.com, unless it is VERY strong. ePaperShredders.com would not be a good idea. ePostCards.com would be good.

Good luck!

 

[gazzip]

thanks Azt, the domain in question has 38740 pm in overture for the two words together.

0 - if you place in - e ****** *****

because of strong 2 keywords will this domain still get a decent amount of traffic if parked ?

 

[dollarman]

"e" is fine, just means the same thing as 'online'. Just make sure you avoid hyphens and long domains.

 

[worldstar]

e is a symbol of new economy! e+one word domain is a good choice!

 

[RegFee]

thanks Azt, the domain in question has 38740 pm in overture for the two words together.

0 - if you place in - e ****** *****

because of strong 2 keywords will this domain still get a decent amount of traffic if parked ?

It's real hard to say, since it depends on the target audience. Not everyone recognizes the "e" (despite everyone knowing what email is) so you may only get some traffic if your audience is tech savvy.

If you don't want to risk spending the money to register it, I would just make a few more posts here and learn a lot, and when you have enough NP$ to register a name, by then you'd have a little more knowledge to make a decision you'd be comfortable with.

 

[marcfox]

The E Is Completely Useless And makes Your Domain Sound Cheap IMHO

 

[gazzip]

It's real hard to say, since it depends on the target audience. Not everyone recognizes the "e" (despite everyone knowing what email is) so you may only get some traffic if your audience is tech savvy.

If you don't want to risk spending the money to register it, I would just make a few more posts here and learn a lot, and when you have enough NP$ to register a name, by then you'd have a little more knowledge to make a decision you'd be comfortable with.

Thanks, I think I will skip the "e" one for now, replies appreciated

 

[mole]

The E Is Completely Useless And makes Your Domain Sound Cheap IMHO

what about ecommerce?

 

[BriGuy20]

Moving to off-topic land for a second:

I read the book on how eBay started (literally), and the story was that Pierre Omidyar was putting together a site (3 topics, one being the auction, one being ebola, and i forget the other one) and thought the name Echo Bay was cool. Echo Bay was taken by a mining company, so he shortened it to eBay.

Thus, he didn't intentionally stick an e in front of the name, it was sort of a happy accident. If the mining company didn't take the name, we'd all be going online to echobay.com to sell our junk.

As for the e before the name, depends. If it lends itself well to the next word (i.e. if you could truly put an "electronic" before the name and have it make sense), then there may be some value. Depends on what you put it with, though.

 

[Toker]

I think in order for an 'e' name to be valuable, it typically has to have a one-two syllable noun or a short verb after the e. Example eDiet.com, ePoker.com. Sometimes the 'ing' will help, such as eLearning.com (better than eLearn.com imho) Just keep in mind that the 'e' means 'electronic', so don't get anything that doesn't make sense with that word. And don't get a eTWOWORDS.com, unless it is VERY strong. ePaperShredders.com would not be a good idea. ePostCards.com would be good.

Good luck!

Just curious, 8 years in the Adult side but new around here.
What about U in front of a short word like Uasked.com or Uasked.us ?

 

[RegFee]

Just curious, 8 years in the Adult side but new around here.
What about U in front of a short word like Uasked.com or Uasked.us ?

uasked.com is brandable. I don't know about uasked.us, it's clever, but once again needs to be developed since people aren't likely to type in that name without seeing it at least once.

u by itself is usually an abbreviation for university
so PokerU.com would be valuable.

 

[Toker]

uasked.com is brandable. I don't know about uasked.us, it's clever, but once again needs to be developed since people aren't likely to type in that name without seeing it at least once.

u by itself is usually an abbreviation for university
so PokerU.com would be valuable.

Thanks, seems like it would make a good SE..
Like AskJeeves which changed to just ask.com