Worth Buying? Advice please.

[ftaylor]

Like many other new domainers, I have made the mistake of buying a bunch of keyword domains, even though their google keyword frequency isn't that good. Today I have found several domains with really good "in quotes" google occurence but I am almost out of money and I want to know whether you think they're worth buying.

I found a 2 word 7 letter .net that makes sense across the globe with 9.2m results in quotes, and 23.8m results without quotes. Is this a sound investment?

The question that I am really asking is, at what level does a domain become worth something when a search within quotes returns high results;

If I search for something in quotes and it returns X results, at what level of X should I buy it?

Cheers,

Finbarr

 

[katherine]

Hard to say without knowing the name
Use a registrar that allows tasting like dynadot, register the name and ask for opinions. If you change your mind you can cancel it within 5 days.

 

[ftaylor]

Yea that's a good idea. Maybe I'll do that then come back looking for opinions , just hope I get an Appraisal response within 5 days!

 

[VirtualT]

Like many other new domainers, I have made the mistake of buying a bunch of keyword domains, even though their google keyword frequency isn't that good. Today I have found several domains with really good "in quotes" google occurence but I am almost out of money and I want to know whether you think they're worth buying.

I found a 2 word 7 letter .net that makes sense across the globe with 9.2m results in quotes, and 23.8m results without quotes. Is this a sound investment?

The question that I am really asking is, at what level does a domain become worth something when a search within quotes returns high results;

If I search for something in quotes and it returns X results, at what level of X should I buy it?

Cheers,

Finbarr

Being a net, ask yourself:

• Would I use the domain myself for a startup?
• Is the domain commercially relevant? (as opposed to being 'cool', 'neat' or 'funky')
• If I was an end user would I pay good money for this specific domain, or just reg some other .net or .org myself

 

[ftaylor]

The 7 letter domain was gmttime.net. Worth it given the results?

 

[BLazeD]

Not bad actually, could be far worse

 

[QuantumBeam]

not to shabby....

 

[katherine]

Do you have development plans ? I would have settled for something a bit more generic like timezones or timeconverter (difficult to find I know).

 

[ftaylor]

I got AccurateTime.org in the same sitting. 1.3m results in quotes. I'm gonna develop that into synched clocks all ticking at the right time to the nanosecond Glad you guys think the name wasn't completely rubbish.

 

[katherine]

AccurateTime is nice

 

[copper]

Google result pages have two sided story.

Are you a enduser or reseller?

If you are enduser, less is better since it means less competitions.
If you are reseller, more is better since it means more potential buyers?

I think you should pay more attention to OVT.
Best domain would be high OVT with low google result pages.

Correct me if I am wrong

 

[ftaylor]

Interesting point. I will pay more attention to this.