?Category Killer? what is it exactly? Do these domains qualify

[tldrental]

Hi,
I keep reading this phrase in the forum "Category Killer", What does it mean exactly. Is it like a generic key word phrase domain that covers the search category?

Could these domains below be categorized as a "Category Killer"



Las Vegas Front Row.com
JadeBeachVacation.com ("Jade Beach Vacation" Great Word Tracker Stats)
jade-beach-vacation.com
romantic-beach-vacations.com ("romantic beach vacations" Great Word Tracker Stats)
romantic-beach-vacations.net
romantic-beach-vacation.com
romantic-beach-vacation.net
romanticbeachvacation.net
MotelPennsylvania.com
MotelsPennsylvania.com
MotelsNew Hampshire.com
MotelsNorth Carolina.com
MotelsIowa.com
PokerReservation.com
CorprateLawPractices.com
AdministrativeLawExperts.com
DiscountedWebsiteHosting.com
SecureDatingService.com
FastInternetFotune.com
Lesbian Rights Advocates.com
SunSpotSecrets.com
EngraveProdcuts.com
StartDropshipping.com

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Typo - RomaticBeachVacation.com (Romatic instead of Romantic) ("Romatic Beach Vacation" Great Word Tracker Stats)

 

[DomainBELL]

Interesting question...

I don't recall ever hearing the term...

So the responses will be of interest to me as well...

~DomainBELL (Patricia)

 

[tldrental]

That makes the two of us!!

Interesting question...

I don't recall ever hearing the term...

So the responses will be of interest to me as well...

~DomainBELL (Patricia)

 

[Salient]

A category-killer is a domain which best describes a specific industry.

For instance; computer industry category-killer would be computer.com or computers.com

Other examples; domain- or domains.com for the domain industry. drug- or drugs.com for the pharmaceutical industry.

Typically, these domains or .com but other tlds apply if the domain describes a product or service exactly. These domains are generic, but not too generic - i.e. idea.com or thing.com are generic, but not category-killers.

Stuart.

 

[000]

Hi,
I keep reading this phrase in the forum "Category Killer", What does it mean exactly. Is it like a generic key word phrase domain that covers the search category?

Yes. "Category killer is a term used in marketing and strategic management to describe a product, service, brand, or company that has such a distinct sustainable competitive advantage that competing firms find it almost impossible to operate profitably in that industry..."
source: wikipedia

Could these domains below be categorized as a "Category Killer" ...

None of these domains are strong enough to make competing names hopeless.

 

[tldrental]

Wow, Im way off, thanks for clarifying for me. So than these domains below would qualify for Category Killers even though they are .PRO

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A category-killer is a domain which best describes a specific industry.

For instance; computer industry category-killer would be computer.com or computers.com

Other examples; domain- or domains.com for the domain industry. drug- or drugs.com for the pharmaceutical industry.

Typically, these domains or .com but other tlds apply if the domain describes a product or service exactly. These domains are generic, but not too generic - i.e. idea.com or thing.com are generic, but not category-killers.

Stuart.

 

[000]

...So than these domains below would qualify for Category Killers even though they are .PRO

Your examples have been deleted but I can't imagine any dot pro name possessing a distinct sustainable competitive advantage over the same keyword dot com. Typical category killers would be newspaper classified ad category title dot coms, for example motorcycles dot com. Non dot com domain category killers are more likely to dominate because of a powerful original business model rather than a generic name, for example wikipedia dot org, the user generated encyclopedia.

 

[upickitout]

So according to what I have read, would domains like

SuedeCouches, FrenchLamp, DentalAcrylics... would these be category killer domains???

 

[000]

So according to what I have read, would domains like

SuedeCouches, FrenchLamp, DentalAcrylics... would these be category killer domains???

If you had both singular and plural versions of the dot coms then you could safely declare yourself king of those product niches. Realistically, even if you owned an earth shattering dot com name like motorcycles dot com (you don't unless your last name is Honda), a great domain name alone is not enough to smash all competition. If it was, Yamaha, Harley etc would have closed shop.

 

[randomo]

So according to what I have read, would domains like

SuedeCouches, FrenchLamp, DentalAcrylics... would these be category killer domains???

I might call them "subcategory killers" ...

or else maybe "killers of very small categories"