evaluating foreign word domains

[HomerJ]

this is a multi-pronged question.

1st, do foreign dictionary word DNs' have any value in .com? (not talking about IDN with non-ASCII characters) For example, in Italian 'dottore' means 'doctor'. how would you appraise dottore.com? how about for a little more obscure, less commercial keyword, for example 'pepita' in Italian means 'nugget', how do you appraise pepita.com?

2nd, what is relative value of dottore.net and dottore.org compared to dottore.com?

3rd, if there is value in these foreign dictionary domains, how does the market vary with different languages? For example, is there as good a market for Slovenian dictionary .coms as for Spanish?

please share your thoughts.

 

[domainah]

this is a multi-pronged question.

1st, do foreign dictionary word DNs' have any value in .com? (not talking about IDN with non-ASCII characters) For example, in Italian 'dottore' means 'doctor'. how would you appraise dottore.com? how about for a little more obscure, less commercial keyword, for example 'pepita' in Italian means 'nugget', how do you appraise pepita.com?

2nd, what is relative value of dottore.net and dottore.org compared to dottore.com?

3rd, if there is value in these foreign dictionary domains, how does the market vary with different languages? For example, is there as good a market for Slovenian dictionary .coms as for Spanish?

please share your thoughts.

There is no universal rule for how much such a name is worth. It really depends on how popular the word is in that country, how popular .coms are in that country and how many people that language speak.

So yes, there is value for the good words in each language, going from 100'sk for a really good word in German to zero for an unpopular word in Icelandic..probably not the answer you were hoping for, but every domain really needs to be looked at individually. You cant even say how much a so-so word is worth in German, it all depends.

In addition to that, google results do very little for many languages, including German, I frequently see people looking for appraisals for words that have high google results but are totally worthless because its some odd form of a verb used for the third person perspective in past tense, which is why the best advice I can give is really to stick to languages that you speak ONLY. Thinking that something good is unregged and was overlooked is only going to result in a worthless registration. The more people speak a certain language, the higher the potential value for the .com, but the higher the chance that the domain is gone. There are no great German, Spanish, French or Italian words left.

The fact that .com is only the second choice for most countries makes it difficult to get a great price as many people would settle for .info or .net if they cant get the ccTLD.

 

[HomerJ]

point taken about odd verb tenses and conjugations, etc.

i think you are correct that there are no premo german, spanish, french, or italian words left .. but icelandic and slovenian on the other hand, there just might be. i just don't know if there's even a market for such less popular languages.

 

[DNWizardX9]

this is a multi-pronged question.

1st, do foreign dictionary word DNs' have any value in .com? (not talking about IDN with non-ASCII characters) For example, in Italian 'dottore' means 'doctor'. how would you appraise dottore.com? how about for a little more obscure, less commercial keyword, for example 'pepita' in Italian means 'nugget', how do you appraise pepita.com?

2nd, what is relative value of dottore.net and dottore.org compared to dottore.com?

3rd, if there is value in these foreign dictionary domains, how does the market vary with different languages? For example, is there as good a market for Slovenian dictionary .coms as for Spanish?

please share your thoughts.

so includes ascii characters and accents in spanish? (then it is an idn)
idn means internationalized domain name.

 

[HomerJ]

golly, is that what it means?

 

[DNWizardX9]

yes