Slim pickings?

**wrdekle** · 04-21-2006, 03:02 AM

How are folks finding the mining to be going in Japanese .com and .net and .jp lately? Is it tough to find good names or are you still pulling down 20-50 regs a day?

**Edwin** · 04-21-2006, 06:29 AM

I've pretty much stopped at just over 2,000 .com regs. Was taking too long to find new stuff.

**Rubber Duck** · 04-21-2006, 09:25 AM

Originally Posted by Edwin

I've pretty much stopped at just over 2,000 .com regs. Was taking too long to find new stuff.

Well, this is part of the process. The secondary market in primary terms needs to be well established and start to look relatively expensive, before the primary market in secondary term starts to become established. The scarcity of primary terms that you have described and the associated price hike are now very much in evidence and it is only a matter of time before a wider market appeal will start to see registrations fan out into the commercially viable terms that could not be consider Top Primary Generics Terms.

**wrdekle** · 04-22-2006, 08:22 PM

Wow Edwin, what do you do with the free time now that you don't reg anymore?

**Olney** · 04-22-2006, 10:33 PM

I'd recommend trying to buy some jps.
They cost a bit more but there's still a bit of good domains left.
Half my portfolio is dot jp now.
Like I just got parking.jp, & domainparking.com/jp/net
You have to think about things that WILL be popular.

**DNWizardX9** · 04-23-2006, 03:04 AM

Originally Posted by Olney

I'd recommend trying to buy some jps.
They cost a bit more but there's still a bit of good domains left.
Half my portfolio is dot jp now.
Like I just got parking.jp, & domainparking.com/jp/net
You have to think about things that WILL be popular.

shhh ;-)

oh well we told them many times before

**Rubber Duck** · 04-23-2006, 03:13 AM

Originally Posted by wrdekle

How are folks finding the mining to be going in Japanese .com and .net and .jp lately? Is it tough to find good names or are you still pulling down 20-50 regs a day?

I have more or less packed it in now. Had a recent spurt with Combos.

Came to the conclusion that it pointless making a search enquiry for some Services without specify a Geographic Location.

This led me to look at terms such as "Shanghai Hotel", which we already had a version of. It was becoming very obvious that advertisers were prepared to pay heavily for such combos and therefore the domains themselves will have a good value later. Other services that are fairly meaningless without a location are Real Estate, Dating, Employment Agencies etc. I just took a large list of Japanese Prefectures and Chinese Cities and started matrixing the terms. Got caught out on Chinese though. I had no idea there were so many different terms for Hotel!

Funny enough sedo were advocating such an approach in their recent news letter:

<<<ou've heard of "Think globally, act locally"? Well, in this issue Sedo presents you with the domainer's version of this mantra: "think global (keywords), register local (domains)". The formula of combining high-value keywords (such as "mortgage", "real estate", "attorney", etc.) with local identifiers to form domains like BostonMortgage.com, HoustonRealEstate.info, or NewYorkAttorneys.net is rapidly becoming one of the hottest strategies for building a search keyword-oriented portfolio that will perform extremely well on ppc monetization services like SedoParking.com.

The appeal of this strategy lies not just in the fact that locally-targeted domains are more likely to be available, but also in new research which suggests that some locally-targeted keywords actually pay considerably more per click than the nationally-targeted version. As more and more small businesses discover the value of local search, we expect the premium on locally-targeted keywords to rise further.

For more tips on how you can take advantage of this hot new investing strategy before all the good domains are gone, see this month's feature article "Domaining Goes Local" by Jude Augusta, Sedo's Director of Partnerships.

Wishing you continued success,

Sincerely,

Matt Bentley
CSO, sedo.com>>>

As ever they are exactly correct, just several years late. Interestingly they never thought that their clever localisation strategy might be link to IDN in anyway!

**Olney** · 04-23-2006, 06:11 AM

Yeah Dave's right on this.
I just picked up 50 new dot com combos today...
After finding out Dave took ones that I've been meaning to pick up but never had the time to look for.