discuss What do you do befor you register or buy your domain?

[most123]

thats what i do

i try to choose the strong words
and look in to the search average that will tell me people are interested in the name or not
and search about any similar sales history

is this enough?

because i see many domains have good words and good search average and when they appraised in the appraisal section i see a lot of members say no value on this!

on the other side i see domains with very little search average and they don't even have similar sales history and they appraised for high value!

maybe i should learn more as i am still new in domains or maybe there's something wrong i can't understand

i have been in forex for 5 years and learned an important thing that(dont ever fight the trend)and try to do what the market wants...when the market is up alot of people keep their selling orders so thats why they lose..

in domains i see the search average and the similar sales history maybe good indicator to an up trend so i try to do what the market wants

there are new domains maybe they are brandable but they have no search average and similar sales!!

and in my opinion any buyer could make his own brandable domain with no need to pay 3 or 4 digits for one

please join and say your opinion

 

[Nerevar]

Good brandables are not easy to find nowadays, one word or two words. Try and see Lots of people on this forum have made money with brandables – it is a working business model, if you know and feel what is in demand. Also, there are plenty of two-word domains that are not really brandables, but have no searches either. These sell too.

By the way, when startups register domains instead of buying, they usually rebrand them later, when their budget increases. Even Google goes for rebranding now - and yes, they did register their domain

Besides, investing in keyword domains is no less a "gamble" than investing in brandables. Simply because they cost you more (much more!) to acquire, and their value fluctuates significantly, especially with the emergence of the new extensions. It is a significant risk to take.

 

[doubleU]

and this put the same question again what make this brandable name best than the one with high search average??

Brandables names that have little search volume are usually short and easy to pronounce and remember, some require strategic advertising/marketing campaigns to launch successfully.

Some brandables have high search volume before being marketed e.g. cheap flights, this can only be a plus.

 

[most123]

thank you nerevar
but i gotta say something
since i see brandable names which are appraised for high value when they new registered not old names...this means that there are a huge number are still not registered yet but maybe its hard to find one but its not impossible

as for me if i am going to establish my site i dont have any problem to spend 24 hour or a whole week searching about my brandable name instead of paying 1000$ for one name

and you can see alot of brandable names are good names i think they selling in the auction section for less than 20$
the reason is because there are many of them and there are no such huge number of sites for all these names... maybe there are some of them sold for xxxx but still alot of them selling for 10and 20 ....this is my opinion

 

[iowadawg]

I check to see if I have money to buy a domain first.
The i do a double check.
Ask the wife if I can.

 

[Nerevar]

The domain usually represents a company name. For example, plenty of people may search for pc speakers, mouse pads, action games etc. Domains like mousepads.com may be used to generate leads, or for an affiliate website. But a company will (almost) never call itself “Mouse Pads Ltd” or “Speakers”, “Action Games”. A company will tend to call itself “Software Solutions Ltd”, or “Computer Supplies”, or “Data Store”, or something like that. So the main company domain that they want is softwaresolutions.com etc., with nearly no searches.

There are many, many thousands of companies in this field. So they bought all obvious names like softwaresolutions.com , and even mousepads.com - and what do they do next?

1. They can go to longer names. They can call themselves Zero Digital Solutions, Nirvana Data Store and so on. Dull, long domains that are hard to type and remember. These are not our clients, the potential names are too many to register them and have a decent ROI.

2. They can go brandable. Something like datafocus.com , cyborgica.com , gigahub.com , gameric.com, coolbit.com etc. Remember, there are many thousands of companies – and good brandable names are limited. This is why brandables sell.

And yes, fair quality brandables are registered by domainers for $10, or change hands for $20-30, and then 2-5% of them sell for $1,500, especially with some good marketing. This is a working business model that will not get you rich, but might get a reasonable return for the effort invested. In reality, $1500 is not that much money for a company. They do not want to sit and search themselves what domains are free this evening. Instead they choose from the best domains that were gathered over many months or years of hoarding by experienced domainers.

 

[Lorena Cano]

Your domain name is your company face on the web.

So sure you need something approachable and easy to remember so people can actually log in on your web page.

So whenever you want to register or buy a domain only take into consideration that it has to be something that has clear meaning for potential costumers.

 

[most123]

thank you brothers and sisters i really appreciate everyone replied on the thread

 

[Aamsra]

Hi,

You seems to approach right direction. First of all, nothing is learnt in no time, it takes time.

If you are willing to make effort, you're already acquiring something every moment.

Now, actual point, though Nerevar guided the best so far, following things may ease things for you more:

Research is a must before you buy a domain, it takes time,initially you ll make mistakes by wrong selection of names or keywords but things get better gradually.

Making use of google keyword planner is good.

Google trends can help a lot to know which things are up in which region.

Even many keywords/names are so worthy that we can easily know how much they ll pay back when being used in a domain name. Such as, forex, finance, health, money, cash, investment and so on.

Better to grasp such highly useful keywords or others from Google AdWords keyword planner or Google trends in your domains in tlds I.e..com, .net, .org, .biz etc...

If all important tlds are taken, better to choose one that is getting famous day by day such as, .co, .cc etc...

Last but not least, passion and effort work but luck is all time essential.

I just tried to facilitate a bit based on my knowledge and honestly I'm a learner too (by profession, I'm a software engineer/researcher) as when you suppose you know all, things get quite limited in inner and outer of yourself.

Hope, this helps.
Thank you.

 

[cmdomains]

Before I register a domain... I panic.

Then panic some 5minutes more.

Then I find this actually helps.

 

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[Suraj Soni]

Hey thanks Nerever i like your thoughts for brandable domains

 

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