Really - that's the best you could have come up with?

[draggar]

Yesterday I noticed a work truck in our community and they had the typical "domain" for their website yet a (blah) @ (free email service) for their email address. But then I noticed something odd..

Their website URL was LLLL.info (not really LLLL but it was a 4 letter .info) and I was thinking "really? That's the best they could do?" so I did a little research.

The LLLL domain had 3 definite premium letters and one questionable, all constants and not pronounceable.

Turns out the company is a medium sized business here in Florida so they should be able to afford the .com - probabaly it would have coted $500-$750 max if the owner was a good seller.

SoI do some research.

.com - "for sale" landing page. Hmm, that should lower the price since it's not in an end-user's hands.

.org - OK, this is a little tough, it's a large project so that'll drive up the .com price but still, $750 on the high end.

.net - parked page

.us - owned and an atcve site for a small hunting group.

So we have 5 TLDs and one is clearly for sale and the other is parked. Most likely these are domainers (or at least not end users at this time). I'm still thinking that the .com would sell in the range I mentioned before and the .net maybe in the $100-$200 range.

The .org is a large orgnization and I'm 99% sure they could afford to put a nice offer in on the .com (and would benefit from it), the price tag might have been igh for this company but IMO well worth it for .com branding (and much easier marketing).

So the question is - are potential end users just tired of the reputation of dealing with domainers (who knows if anyone did approch the owners of the .com and .net and if their prices were too high) and just going with the best option to register now or is there still a large amount of uneducated web-marketing people out there?

 

[namestrands]

Not at all. Some people simply type the name into their domain registrar and see that it is not available so simply brain storm some ideas and come up with crap. These are the hardest people to target, and while they will have the money, you have no idea they are looking. So you would have to approach all the companies that would find the name suitable.

It is also a good idea to have a for sale Landing Page instead of PPC, believe it or not, you earn more with a sale than PPC these days ;-)

Also consider things such as using AfterNIC and GoDaddy to list your domains, so at least when a company searches one of the big registrars the likelihood of the right company finding that domain of yours for sale increases.

(not trying to teach a granny to suck eggs, but hoping that this will serve as advice to others)

 

[A D]

It is also a good idea to have a for sale Landing Page instead of PPC, believe it or not, you earn more with a sale than PPC these days ;-)

That's good advice. A sales page that doesn't go through someone like Sedo also saves you $.

A quick tip, If you do get an offer through Sedo or other Auction link on a domain and its a reasonable start offer, go change the make offer on that page to your email address.

If the seller uses the email link you save $, if they don't they probably want to hide their identity so you know you can ask for more $.

This has worked for me many times.

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