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Old 03-05-2005, 06:36:50 PM     #9 (permalink)
paul

 
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Sorry if I caused offence, not my intent. However, If you are not prepared for someones opinion you shouldn't ask We all register some poor names from time to time, I remember the first time I registered a few names, I ended up blowing £2k, wish someone had made me think a bit more then

Personally I welcome any comments about any names I post, good or bad, anyone who has any negative comments about any of my names please fire away you won't offend me, might help me decide what goes to the bottom of the development pile and make me think twice next time.

The way I see it there are two types of domains, ones that add value to an online business and ones that don't. If it doesn't add value why would I or anyone else buy it off you when I could go and register another one for £5.18 +VAT

What adds value in my opinion:
1. Trust and Credibility by association - Names such as loans.co.uk if I went to this site I would assume that it must be a big company and I could trust them, just by name association.
2. Descriptive - such as carloans.co.uk you would know exactly what to expect and be able to remember it next time you wanted to visit. The downside is you would be limiting yourself and find it difficult to sell other things such as personal loans.
3. Traffic - Any domain is worth something if it has traffic. Anyone who has a site with over 500 uniques a day feel free to PM me
4. Short and brandable - such as google.com or toys.co.uk
5. Age & History - Any site that has a long history and old links built up over several years (not ones that had 2 links last week and 2000 today)
6. Type-ins - usually short and descriptive or typos

If your domains don't fall into one or more of the above then they probably fall into the final category - ones with potential , in other words, pretty much unsaleable (you might get lucky) but might be ok to develop yourself.

Some things can actually drive people away in my opinion. loanscar.co.uk as an example says second rate to me and I would not trust my money with them. And as a developer I would not take it even if it was free, I would rather have something like A1carloans.co.uk

Again this is just my opinion please take it as just that.

Last edited by Zippy; 03-05-2005 at 06:40:56 PM.
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