debate Why do you hate new domains?

[redemo]

Please help me understand why there is such hostility towards buying recent registered domain names? If somebody offers me a nice two word name with 20000 monthly searches why would I care in the slightest if the name was registered last week or last century? I have no hang-ups about buying a name that somebody registered yesterday. Bread is bread.

 

[Samer]

OP, know why i personally hate them?

Archaic rules, stops xfer away to diff registrar

if it’s a fresh registration <60 days.

 

[redemo]

If someone registered covid19.com 30 seconds after the name was announced that name could be worth $ 100000 within a week. Then the age wouldn't be important. So new trends can significantly affect the age argument.

 

[redemo]

@Samer "if it’s a fresh registration <60 days." is that for all extensions and registrars?

 

[adoni]

I registered 1000 names in 1995 with NetSol it was $100 each for only 2 years registration

By then every big industry was long gone, so combos and prefix stuff was open to register

Now with new TLD's we got a whole new bite at the apple

These are all this year, and IMO worth a fortune since I deal with Law Firms almost daily

Attorney.Credit
Attorneys.Credit
Attorneys.Limited
Attorneys.Associates
Attorneys.Partners

Lawyers.Credit
Lawyers.Associates
Lawyers.Partners

I've been dealing with Attorneys for decades and doing development for decades, they bought my billing software in the 80's and from 1995 I did marketing for them

My first job was for Milbank in the 70's in 1 Chase Plaza as a kid, my dad was computerizing them with Wang for IBM creating the first Legal Word Processor

I got a bunch of great legal terms from the 90's mostly combos, most use my brand name prefix 1, you put 1 in front of most cities or industries, it's part of my brands development, we can stick a 1 prefix as easy as the keyword for seo or more recently high QS scores to get cheap PPC ads.

So IMO a combo from 1990's that was an early registration is not worth what Attorneys is in quite a few new TLD's

There are Credit Lawyers so Lawyers.credit is a major new registration
Every lawyer starts out as an associate and wants to become a partner so both associates and partners are major terms in the legal industry so again lawyer(s) or attorney(s) in either is a great registration

I got to buy some ETH for a crypto project, so MONEY TALKS make me offers and pay in ETH and I will sell 1 way under what I think they are worth

 

[redemo]

I'm not going to list them here but a good number of active #cryptocurrencies have not registered the .org name. Some have not even registered the .com name. I wonder why? I thought it would be common sense to do so for brand protection.

 

[zomainhacks]

I don't care about the age, but majority of really valuable domains are aged (quite easy to understand why). Before acquiring a domain always ask yourself why someone renewed that domain or why it was available and someone regged it recently.

Also end users don't care about age, it's a detail some might find interesting only in the wholesale market.

 

[zomainhacks]

Is it correct that the only way to guarantee the purity of a domain name is a newly-registered name that has never been registered before?

If you define purity in this way of course. But what is the purity of a domain? I never heard about it. Also there are going to infinity numebr of domains under this requirement that can be freely registered. This "purity" 99,9999999% of the times means wothless.

If someone registered covid19.com 30 seconds after the name was announced that name could be worth $ 100000 within a week. Then the age wouldn't be important. So new trends can significantly affect the age argument.

Maybe, the point is that it's very unlikely you'll be the one able to catch that keyword before the others. There are gazillion arbitrage opportunitities every second, why you don't pick them? it's the same.

I'm not going to list them here but a good number of active #cryptocurrencies have not registered the .org name. Some have not even registered the .com name. I wonder why? I thought it would be common sense to do so for brand protection.

There are also many shitcoins

 

[Jason Baudendistel]

Sometimes you can find a diamond in the rough or pockets of value with new registrations. My three most valuable domains Wibbets.com , Brothinvesting.com and Splific.com are all reasonably younger.

 

[Jason Baudendistel]

Domain age does help rank and authority but from my experience it's a smaller factor than good SEO.

There is an assumption among SEO community that Google ranks aged domains higher. Google do not quiet agree with that. The assumption is based on the spammers' use-and-throw approach to domains. So in SEO point of view, age of a domain is a sign of authority.

 

[redemo]

@Jason Baudendistel Do you mean high potential search volume?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Age doesn't matter for almost all endusers.
Only geeks and lawyers are checking WHOIS dates.