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[David G]

Originally posted by Duke of Earl DomainGirl this is the most common mistake I see people make. Google, Yahoo etc. are big because they had the hundreds of thousands of dollars (plus great content) that it takes to brand a made-up name nationwide... Few people seem to understand what a difficult and extremely expensive task this is. I currently work for a company that is trying to do that very thing. We have already spent over a million dollars and we are still light years away from being a well-known name on the internet (even after getting additional free publicity in several national magazines, cable TV networks, etc because of a charity aspect to our project).

If you are going to develop all of your own names for your own little projects that is one thing, but expecting to sell a "brandable" name is something completely different. If a company has ambitions of branding a name nationally and the budget to do it, they will hire a focus group to create their own name. There is no need whatsoever for them to go buy a name from someone else. For the domain name reseller, generic names are indeed the ones that offer the best chance for making sales. Made-up names are almost always losers. My two cents - and good luck to you!

My views exactly, except for major internet firms it takes many millions, far more than hundreds of thousands, perhaps hundreds of millions. Made up names have no value by definition, unless there is a big firm behind the name ready to market it.

I think there is a possibility both videom and shwing may have been mistaken for the real words video and swing by a prospective buyer who made those offers.

Sorry, even during the dot-com boom which peaked early-2000, I can't see the 2 names worth more than a reg fee.

 

[namedropper]

Did I mention lately that I loved how people on here are much more realistic and clued in than the idiots who ran around the old Afternic appraisal boards giving every Doofus-King.Net name a $50,000 rating and then would give $1 revenge appraisals to anyone who didn't rate names insanely high?

Classy place we have here. I like it. Kudos to the regulars.
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[BiggieBiggie is verified member.]

Technocult.com >>>tech music is hot
houseculture.com >>>house music fans will eat this up
namescream.com >>> excellent domain promotional
xrobot.com >>> will be a movie title

 

[GiantDomains]

namescream.com :weird:

Names cream? If its a vanishing cream, you can use it on these names.



Just kidding.

 

[JohnZ]

VVin.com I will swan it for DNF$2000,anyone like it?---nobody!
so I will delete it next renew time.

 

[allanh]

Originally posted by Duke of Earl


DomainGirl this is the most common mistake I see people make. Google, Yahoo etc. are big because they had the hundreds of thousands of dollars (plus great content) that it takes to brand a made-up name nationwide. Few people seem to understand what a difficult and extremely expensive task this is. I currently work for a company that is trying to do that very thing. We have already spent over a million dollars and we are still light years away from being a well-known name on the internet (even after getting additional free publicity in several national magazines, cable TV networks, etc because of a charity aspect to our project).

If you are going to develop all of your own names for your own little projects that is one thing, but expecting to sell a "brandable" name is something completely different. If a company has ambitions of branding a name nationally and the budget to do it, they will hire a focus group to create their own name. There is no need whatsoever for them to go buy a name from someone else.

For the domain name reseller, generic names are indeed the ones that offer the best chance for making sales. Made-up names are almost always losers. My two cents - and good luck to you!

I agree with this statement entirely.

 

[NexSite]

Id sell my portfolio of 600 plus names for $15000 right now. SO I could get some rest.
Now seriously, nothing wrong with made up names. Just dont expect to get large offers for them. I got $1850 for envirobotics.com, $350 for techstat.com, $500 for hitpros.com, $125 for puractive.com, $125 for adgenuity.com, $200 for credicure.com, etc.... Only sold one name for less than $125.00.
$125 is reasonable for a good, brandable domain. I made up all of those except hitpros.com which i found on deleteddomains.com at 5 pm and sold it within a week for $500.00 Seems everybody was asleep at the wheel on that one. The problem is obviously there are way more names than buyers. Period. Its a funny thing, but I look a many lists of people who consistantly give $5 valuations for names, and there list is no better. We all think our names are better because we created an idea in our minds for it. The "perfect name" for some category. I have many myself I thought were great, but, Genomerge.com, Bioprism.com, theyre _ucked. Until somebody sees the value in a good biotech name and the economy rebounds. If greenspan wouldn't have raised interest rates several times in a row in $2000, we'd all still be doing a lot better. The bubble burst and it isn't going to EVER be the same again. Generic type ins ARE your best bet, but most cant afford them. And most cant afford a modest branding campaign. Stick with it and be patient and if somebody says your name is worth diddley, who cares. Link popularity and type in are King folks.

 

[domaingirl]

Thank you for the insight and words of encouragement nexcorp.
I enjoy these forums and it takes a lot more than subjective opinions to ruffle my feathers.

What does anyone think?
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