Wanted to know this from experienced domainers

[coldgarb]

I have seen quite a number of sites for sale on this forum with rarely used words like deathlessly.com,ammonify.com, evocatively.com etc

why do domainers buy such names ?is there a market for such names?
would like to know your thoughts on this because have seen many many such names here

 

[JMJ]

Generally worthless or worth only reg fee to the buyer anyway.

 

[Michael]

Dictionary words in uncommon tenses are rarely worth much of anything.

 

[nicholas]

There IS a market for it, especially if it ends up with an end-user or just a site that is remotely relevant to the name, and the buyer can't find better alternatives.

For example, If you can't have ammo.com or ammunition.com and would rather stick to a one-worder like ammonify.com (strange as it sounds; even if memorable) instead of ammunitionjunctionyard.com or ammunitiondiscussion.com, or any of those with a lower value tld like .org, then ammonify can considerably be good. Ditto for the likes of Flickr, Bebo or Massively.com.

 

[Slick Domains]

I spend a lot of my time scratching my head when I look through the domains for sale. I would say a majority of these domains I wouldn't take from someone if they were offered free, but then again, I don't consider myself a speculative domainer overall.

 

[squarepie]

Sadly, for those proponents of value being enhanced by dictionary presence,
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (.com), using a dictionary word, is already taken. However, they might want to attempt to persuade the medical community to adopt a new disease category for really bad breath calling it SupercalifragilisticexpiHalitosis thereby rendering value to that still available LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.com

 

[coldgarb]

Sadly, for those proponents of value being enhanced by dictionary presence,
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (.com), using a dictionary word, is already taken. However, they might want to attempt to persuade the medical community to adopt a new disease category for really bad breath calling it SupercalifragilisticexpiHalitosis thereby rendering value to that still available LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.com

:lol:

Thanks for your feedback guys

 

[Charley]

Generally worthless or worth only reg fee to the buyer anyway.

They think names like those will be good for flipping or to make decent money.

 

[hawkeye]

It makes some feel that they can tout that they have a 'dictionary' one worder! The truth is of course, that the only one that has anything, is the registrar that took their money.

 

[gingeman]

depends completely on the name, those in the ops examples are of little value, but words in lesser used tenses can still have value if they make sense, are very commonly used and therefore recognisable, or still have an application to a product or service in spite of the tense.

 

[accent]

There are about 100,000 words in a college dictionary. Not a very large pool, if you ask me, considering the growth of the internet.

 

[VisualArtistFrankBonilla]

I have seen quite a number of sites for sale on this forum with rarely used words like deathlessly.com,ammonify.com, evocatively.com etc

why do domainers buy such names ?is there a market for such names?
would like to know your thoughts on this because have seen many many such names here

It is called "hope"! People think they found a dictionary word, which no one else has spotted. They are "hoping" they found a good one, which will sell for a minimum on $x,xxx or more. A year, or two later they realize why the word had not been registered: It is rarely used, and most people don't even know what it means.... and it is worthless. I have done it, and so have a lot of people.. part of the learning expierence,

 

[domainman101]

why buy youtube?

 

[raredn.com]

why buy youtube?

Youtube is relatively short, easy to spell and catchy, the dictionary words mentioned here are... Well I won't make any comments about them or people will think I am not a very nice person
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[htmlindex]

I have seen quite a number of sites for sale on this forum with rarely used words like deathlessly.com,ammonify.com, evocatively.com etc

To me, those names are worth $0. Personally, I don't get why people reg any dictionary word just because it's available in the .com, even if there's really no development that can be done for the name.

 

[Charley]

To me, those names are worth $0.

Generally, it underlies no value at all.

 

[Compassion]

There IS a market for it, especially if it ends up with an end-user or just a site that is remotely relevant to the name, and the buyer can't find better alternatives.

For example, If you can't have ammo.com or ammunition.com and would rather stick to a one-worder like ammonify.com (strange as it sounds; even if memorable) instead of ammunitionjunctionyard.com or ammunitiondiscussion.com, or any of those with a lower value tld like .org, then ammonify can considerably be good. Ditto for the likes of Flickr, Bebo or Massively.com.

This is a great summary. each word is individualistic (of course) and the chance of it being a :gn: is variable upon many factors which are not always obvious.

The ammonify.com example serves as a great one. Less than 10,000 google results, $40 estibot, but an end user given this example may pay you a much greater amount.


Coldgarb's examples are pretty sour looking, many like that these are just not valuable.