What factors play a role in the value of a GEO domain?

[MissyBC]

Are they generally profitable?
What are the factors that come into play?
Population of the city/town?
Search results?
Extension?

What would it take for a geo.com to sell for over reg fee?

 

[Jaco]

A lot of domain cognoscenti think geo is the next boom.
I think most of the same factors that go into regular domains are in play- keyword purity (for example, chicago.com versus echicago.com versus chicagoweb.com versus chicago-online.com, etc, etc)

The economic prospects of whatever the domain addresses in its longtail and what type of competition might be had over sharp, concise domains in that category. For example, ChicagoCarDealers.com would probably sell for more than ChicagoBuggyWhipDealers.com. ChicagoPetStore.com would obviously be worth more than ChicagoPettingZoo.com.

The overall demographic and economic trends of the location are a big one.
Is it a declining, post-industrial wasteland or is it an up-and-coming, cosmopolitan city? Is it a vacation spot people like to travel to (and thus, might be searching for it online) or is it some random mudhole in the middle of West Virginia that is only visited by fertilizer salesman on business trips?

Obviously, SanFranciscoFineArt.com would probably be worth more than DetroitFineArt.com.

 

[MissyBC]

What about names of cities such as bristol.com?
How many search results should a city have in google for it to be worth any value as a city.com?
Any other factors with CITY.COM names?

 

[Jaco]

Pure city.com names are as good as you're going to get in a geo .com.
Pricing it out has everything to do with population, demographics and the economic prospects of that particular area. I've been wanting to add a city.com to my portfolio for a while.

 

[MissyBC]

Good luck! Yeah I don't see too many of them but when I do I have trouble knowing if it is worth it's price etc...For example I have seen one on an Auction that was a small town in Sweden and only 9,000 google results...I don't think there is anything in this town but is it still valuable etc? Maybe I can check on here when I see them LoL

 

[Jaco]

You see them on drop sometimes- small towns in Africa, certain Eastern European places, etc. Obviously, the .com of a 3rd world town that has 2% internet saturation is highly speculative, to say the least