where to go with real estate/hotel domains?

[Jeroen]

Hi Everyone,

As a beginner,I hand- registered a few realestate/hotel DNs, I thought they were suitable for development considering that they have some keywords in them.
I've noticed (thanks to DNF) that it is very difficult to compete SEO-wise with established real estate/hotel websites, especially since I'm an absolute beginner. I'm happy to work hard for it or start investing but I just dont know where to start or even whether I should keep these domainnames.

Its about these 5 domains:

[major-US-city]suite.com
[capital-of-Japan]suite.com
[major-Chinese-city]suite.com
realestate[2-letter-abbreviation].com .The 2 letters are an abbreviation of Hong Kong.
[2-letter-abbreviation]cottage.com .The 2 letters are a popular abbreviation of a major US city.

They all had only a handful of visitors a month at Sedo (no traffic at all at Parked.com). I thought that some could be used for a hotel or business portal or a real estate website?
Perhaps i'm on the wrong track with these domainnames. If so, I would appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance,
Jeroen

 

[SonnyBurnett]

Try to contact some end users

 

[DomainMagnate]

How many capitals are there in Japan?

looks like good regs, you can try building some sites, or selling to end users

 

[Jeroen]

Thanks for your feedback!

I will probably just do that; building a site around a few domains while gaining experience and maybe seeking end-users later.

 

[radioz]

These don't sound too bad but its quite rare to register an available name thats really worth having. There are occasional exceptions. Just be careful. Renewals are expensive if the name is just OK and it makes little or nothing.

As to contacting end users, I usually hear nothing back. When you do hear something back, its often of the nature of accusing you of SPAM, fraud, and/or being a cybersquatter (often all three) and I am definitely talking generic names that I am asking just $50-$250 for. The few that come back may be all excited but very few actually pay you anything. Most people aren't tuned into domain value the way that we are.

Recently I offered a company using the .org extension for their domain the pure .com name and heard nothing. At least three significant businesses that I have offered un-hyphenated .coms that were using the hyphenated version turned me down acrimoniously.

 

[Jeroen]

Thats interesting Radioz,

I'm surprised to see as why some businesses seem not to be interested in a generic domainname sometimes even if the domain contains their main product.