QueryOptimization.com

[yanhuang]

I am interested to get the value of the domain name appraised, and then the value of the website + domain name appraised, if possible.

The website is QueryOptimization.com. Currently, we have developed a SQL query optimizer software around it that gives optimization suggestions based on the SQL query the end user enters.

Thank you.

[WhoDatDog]

Looks like you just started here. I think you should do some reading for a few months before you start trying to register names like these. My first names were 1,000 times worse than this, but it seems that you work in an industry where you are going to be coming across a bunch of names like this, and for the most part, you need to hold onto your money until you figure out what makes a name have value.

There certainly are names that you might stumble upon that aren't registered and may be worth something, but this isn't one of them. If you can imagine whispering this name into someone's ear at lunch, I think the chances of them remembering it correctly, and then typing it in correctly are very low, and that puts the value at zero.

This isn't the type of term that people are ever going to type into their browser with any regularity, if at all. If you were to develop a site on this name, I think that would be a mistake also, since I would bet a lot of money that you could find an easier name to spell and type in than this.

The best thing to do is to read....and then read some more. You can check historic sales prices at Dn Journal, and you can also check sales threads here. Pay attention to actual sales prices in these threads. The bells will be going off in your head and your focus will be narrowed, and then you will get to the point where you can browse threads and make good buys quickly without even thinking about it, because you know the name is a good deal.

I see in your sig that you have your name in .me, and also use another name in .us. If all you did was never register or use a name in anything other than dotcom, you would be way ahead of the game when you looked back in a few years. Don't let others who traffic in that worthless crap try to convince you otherwise. Go approach some businessman on the street and try to sell him a name in .us or .me and see where that gets you. Approach any businessman with a good dotcom, and if the price is right, he will likely be interested.

Good luck.

[KING]

I agree with dog I don't even like taking .net good luck

[yanhuang]

I purchased a portfolio of websites a year and half ago, they had some okay names in there but many were crappy but they made money. I have been developing websites based on domain names that had exact Google searches. I wrote a software that finds two word .com domain name drops--I have been hand registering most of my names from drops. But I never buy a domain name without developing a website around it, because if it does not make money, it is a liability not an asset IMO.

ContentWriters.us, as a brand, have been working good for us. Although, we are looking at extending it to a good .COM, which I think will strengthen that brand.

Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it. I am still working my way up--I haven't explored the flipping side of domaining yet, which is I guess the actual game of it. I have mainly been developing websites around generic domain names with exact searches, even though some aren't that great as far as a brandable name goes.

[WhoDatDog]

It looks like your real expertise and passion is in development, and that the domain name is not that relevant to what you are doing. The more success you have with a name that is not dotcom, the more likely it is you are going to run into problems. You are either going to be giving free business to the one who has the dotcom, or you are going to be perceived as an amateur by your audience.

And when you build businesses around tough to spell names, the problems are obvious. Perception is reality. Here are a few examples of what I am talking about....hypothetical examples.

Say you are about to make a one million dollar home purchase and you Google some leads for real estate agents, mortgage brokers, home builders, etc. Below is what you find:

Properties4You.biz
CaliforniaFinance.com
FarsashAzeri.com
FrankWhite.com
WeLendCash.us
SoCalRealEstate.com
WestsideHomes.com
BestLAProperties.net



The ones who might get the business are below.

CalifornaiFinance.com
FrankWhite.com
SoCalRealEstate.com
WestsideHomes.com


There's just a certain way that things are done at the top levels. Image is very important. If you watch NFL football on Fox or CBS or ESPN who will notice that practically everyone talking has a name that is common for an american white male.

The announcers will say...."Back to John, Mike, and Ron". Or back to Troy and Joe. Thanks Pam. Back to Al and Chris. That is part of the branding process. The people they have in the booth calling the games, and the people they have sitting around taking about the games in the studio, for the most part, are going to have short, easy to spell and remember names. They are selling a product, and everyone in the audience knows someone with one of the announcer's names. That is a connection. Throw some oddball name out there, and now you are planting seeds that take the audience away from the product, either by confusion, or lack of trust.

Now that is a bit of a tangent from domain names, but the point I am making is that there is an expectation from the audience, and it would be just too much of a hassle to constantly be sending it back to people with obscure names that were hard to pronounce. It would take away from the rhythm of the production.

So, if you want to be an on air personality for NFL Football, you better damn well have a common name, or at least go by that moniker. That's just the way it is. There are not a lot of exceptions.