Year domains

[Shaggy]

Are year domains worth anything...for example

Would 1950.org be worth the reg??? Are is this a was of time???

I've always wondered if these had any value.

Thanks

Shagg

[Edwin]

I certainly hope they are, as I have 43 "year" domains between 1900 and 2020!

In terms of sales, they're not an easy sell, but I have disposed of enough to pay for the remaining 43 regs many times over...

[Chelsea]

I must admit that I never really understood why anyone wants a year domain. I mean, when that particular year is gone, what do you want to look at it again? Surely every single year is unique, but what do you do when it is over ?
I´ve seen some porn pages on these year domains, but that was just me being nosy.
All you can say is they are easy to remember.
But then again who am I to give my nonsens to it ?!?

[clemzonguy]

I would say 1000, 2000, 2001, and XXXX would be the highest values domains of this nature. Recent decades esp 1950,1920, 1970, etc would be good too.

[dtobias]

Here's what I have to say about "year domains" in my site:

Too much on the Internet is based on "trendy", flavor-of-the-week thinking, where everyone tries to pander to every momentary craze that comes along. People's choice of domain names often reflects this, with little thought of the long-term sense of what they're doing. When you register and use a domain name, you're adding to the permanent infrastructure of the Internet; you should think this way. Once a site is on the Web, there will be links to it forever (there are still sites linking to long-obsolete addresses of my sites), so you should try to put some foresight into making something that will be meaningful for a long time to come, not just for the lifespan of a mayfly.

In this spirit, you should generally avoid embedding short-shelf-life references into your domain names. Let's say you run a convention called FooBarCon every year. The next one will be FooBarCon VII, to be held in 2003. Resist the impulse to register a domain for it like foobarcon2003.com or foobarconvii.com... that'll be yesterday's news as soon as the '03 con is over and you're working on the '04 event. Better to get a general name like foobarcon.com (or foobarcon.org if it's a nonprofit event!) that you can use year after year. Use subdomains like vii.foobarcon.com if you want separate sites for each specific event.

One big benefit of the long-term approach is that you don't get saddled with heaps of no-longer-useful domains that you have to either keep paying renewal fees on until the end of time, or else face the indignity of possibly having a cybersquatter grab them after they expire and putting something embarrassing like pornography there to ensnare anybody who follows lingering links and search engine indices of your old site. This fate has actually befallen a number of organizations. If you stick to names with permanent significance, you'll have a much more manageable task keeping them renewed. And if you make effective use of subdomains instead of getting a new domain for every temporary gimmick, you'll have addresses that nobody can ever cybersquat.

This reasoning applies to domains with current and future years in them. Domains with past years in them could possibly be of use, however, if you're creating a historical site devoted to a particular time period.

[Anthony Ng]

Year domains, especially those in the last century are good in the sense that a particular year might mean something special for a certain company (when they were found) or person (his birth or wedding). Some companies even have the year in their full legal name!

Actually, one of my clients have been looking to buy year domains for his project. But then it's only dot-com's that he's looking for (and between 1900-2050). Please see my other thread at http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=16718

[biggedon]

guess i have a long time to wait for.......

9153.com

[Shaggy]

How about a .org???? Would it be worth a snap back?

[Momentum]

I think year domain names could have several good purposes. Such as for a class reunion or for selling oldies greatest hits cds or other nostalgic purposes. Although I am not a big fan of .org, sorry shaggy.

[hollayo]

i would say that it depends on the year... i would think the more recent ones are worth something.
.org not sure but .coms are nice

[Shaggy]

any other opinions??