What do you think of sub domains, ie - name.web.com

[gazzip]

I don't really know much about them myself - I just read hear that poker.web.com sold for £15,000 and when I took a look at the registers it looks like many sub domains have already been taken. Have you invested in any of these ?

any info about them is appreciated

 

[scrsteven]

I might open up subdomains on my 2 char .cc's, but no, I don't think that subdomains are worth buying IMO

 

[BurninDragon08]

I mean, I would invest in them.
If you have enough money. I have about $12,000 to spend. So I might invest somewhere good.

 

[gazzip]

I thought I would give the .web.com's a try for the helluva it I got 3 of them for 2 years.


Flying blind as I don't know much about them, see what happens in the next couple of years ! Fingers crossed

 

[MadAboutDomains]

I thought I would give the .web.com's a try for the helluva it I got 3 of them for 2 years.

Invention
recycle
recycling

Flying blind as I don't know much about them, see what happens in the next couple of years ! Fingers crossed

Notice that they were avail... Thats what they are worth! IMHO

 

[gazzip]

:lol: Very Likely - I was actually surprised how many sub domains have been taken, maybe in a couple of years it may be different - Who Know's

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Despite a user's recent posting of a XX,XXX sale of a centralnic domain, my reaction is still that they are a less than ideal option, and I'd rather have almost any other 2nd level extension than these created quantities...
Time could prove me wrong, but until then, I'll be sticking with "real" extensions... (I'm so biased!)
-Allan :gl:

 

[DomainSage]

I have to agree with Allan here, I won't be investing in any of these ... I could be proved wrong ( usually am ) but it seems whenever some 'New' thing turns up there are people out promoting it just to get the trade ticking over. Until I start seeing a few people I trust posting their sales I will not take part ... Probably why I miss out on it all

All the best

Richard

 

[barefoottech]

I have always missed the point with CentralNic SubDomains
People who buy them justify them on the basis of being able to get keyword rich names that they would otherwise not be able to obtain because of the cost or rarity
i.e. Business.web.com
instead of Business.com
but surely Business.CrappyNames.com will be Spidered and indexed by Google and the other Search engines just as easily.
Granted there is some type-in traffic potential for Subdomains like
Business.us.com
where Websurfers have got confused by Business.us name

 

[Dillpup]

___.web.com are absolutely 100% horrible in every way IMO.They're just marketing scams of the domain world bought only by extremely misguided and uninformed people desperate to have a high value keyword in thier collection,no matter what the "extension".
I think most would agree this supposed $XX,XXX sale is either a lie or a fluke.There are alot of dumb people out there with $XX,XXX to blow,so I wouldn't put it past someone to pay that if they were desperate to have "poker" dot something.
If it was ever developed,the owner of pokerweb.com would be getting probably 85% of it's intended traffic.Same would happen for,well, ANY .web.com name.
IF the sale is real,it in no way gives value to any other web.com domain.An isolated incident if I ever saw one.Again,if it's even real.

 

[armstrong]

I don't like centralnic domains, either, but as for ...

If it was ever developed,the owner of pokerweb.com would be getting probably 85% of it's intended traffic.

where do you get that 85%? Is there a basis for that or is it just some number you made up? IMHO, if poker.web.com was developed for real, then sure it would lose some traffic to pokerweb.com, but not 85%. Maybe 10% of type-in traffic (and none of the search engine traffic - SE's can tell the difference every time); 10% being a number I confess to pulling out of nowhere, but which I feel would be quite accurate.

 

[gazzip]

All very good points there - I also have my doubts about the supposed $XX,XXX sale - time will tell ( it may just prove to be an attempt at promotion ?? It should be on dnjournal )
I think as far as enduser's go they will not mind it being a subdomain in many cases, after all you just need one ! I also think that search engines will do the trick regardless, I do not expect to get typins thats for sure :hehe: but I also think many domainers put too much emphasis on type ins (fine if you're rich and can afford names like creditcard.com - cruise.com - poker.com ) after all there is only one poker.com !

There are a few subdomains that will probably do ok like hotel.web.com as parking pages and there are some IMO that even look / sound OK like - sex.web.com - They will also work the same if developed.

It will be interesting to see what the traffic is like in a couple of months,they were cheap enough as long as you don't reg with 123-reg !!! EEEK :td:

 

[Dillpup]

I don't like centralnic domains, either, but as for ...

where do you get that 85%? Is there a basis for that or is it just some number you made up? IMHO, if poker.web.com was developed for real, then sure it would lose some traffic to pokerweb.com, but not 85%. Maybe 10% of type-in traffic (and none of the search engine traffic - SE's can tell the difference every time); 10% being a number I confess to pulling out of nowhere, but which I feel would be quite accurate.

I definetly pulled 85% out of the air,but I don't think I'm too far off.It's far greater than 10% IMO.
For example,a recent misguided advertising campaign used 51.freerhapsody.com for thier address.
Now look at the OVT scores:
51.freerhapsody.com 69
51freerhapsody.com 33

Thats essentially 50% of people not knowing to use a subdomain.And I can only imagine the fate would be worse for "web.com" because "web" sounds like a word that could be at the end of a domain name."pokerweb" flows, poker.web.com sinks.

 

[armstrong]

Hmm. 33 divided by [33+69] equals 32%, not 50%. And that method is indicative only of erroneous type-ins. Click-thru traffic from SE's should not be affected.

 

[Dillpup]

Hmm. 33 divided by [33+69] equals 32%, not 50%. And that method is indicative only of erroneous type-ins. Click-thru traffic from SE's should not be affected.

Geez,I rounded the 33 up 2 points to 35 and 69 up one point to 70 which would be an even 50%.
My math is apparently bad,but so are web.com :td:

 

[gazzip]

Hi, I would be interested to know if anyone here has got some sub domains and what sort or traffic they are getting.

If you have, can you post what extension it is - .web.com .uk.com etc