Worth buying .IM domains?

[rickyponting66]

Hello,

Is it worth buying One word Premium .IM domains?

How much they worth up to date?

Just curious, Thanks!

 

[Kate]

Ask yourself: who are the potential buyers ?
The local market is very limited: 80K inhabitants on the Isle of Man, and they use .co.im or .co.uk too.
Anywhere else it's another just vanity extension like .la .cc .ph or .so etc etc etc. It's nothing special.
Personally I don't think that is going to change in the future.
Good luck.

 

[SpiderHunter]

Depends on the price and the domain/keyword itself. If its a gem maybe if not, these domains are hard to sell.

 

[DU]

I wanted something really important the other day. I do not remember what it was but to make a long story very short (which is unusual for me).

Turned on my PC in the USA
Typed Search Term Into Google.com
Returned a very cool named and nicely developed .im site somewhere on first page
Site had just what I was looking for
Happy Customer

An .im works as well as anything else for an end user. The .im was a nice name, nothing special but very meaningful to the site. Ironically, I forgot what it was, I just remembered it being .im which is the part I'm supposed to forget according to domainers. I have irrational memory loss I guess.

Anyway - this is getting longer by the minute - it was likely on an .im because it was CHEAPER and probably a LOT CHEAPER which makes it great for a good end user and probably a poor investment to "squat" on... yeah, I said it SQUAT. Or Invest, or whatever... If you're on the other side of the equation and you can get a clever name.. go for it ... Ignore all those people that say you have to have BOOKS.com if you're a BOOKSTORE..that's just crap.

But don't invest it unless it's undeniably great imho or works really well with the .IM .