Aiden Roberts

Evening All,

I am about a month into this domaining business and have been muddling through, buying rubbish names, messing wordpress up and generally doing everything badly but not too worry I am so much more experienced now so it can only get better.

On my daily forage into finding decent domain names; today I stumbled across a plural single dictionary word, on a .co.uk ext, the only thing is I would have no idea what to do with it? The .com and some others have gone, the singular .co.uk has gone but not developed.

What would you do? would you buy it because it's only the price of a reg and see what comes up or would you pass it by?

I am led to believe that these type of domains are the holy grail but I am at a loss what to use it for, it is not a terrible domain name just unsure of how to develop it?

What would you do?

Thanks

Aiden

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The Next Frank

Hi Aiden,

You may have already done this but what about checking out what has been done with the .com, .net,etc?

May well be nothing or just a landing page with ads - but just in case you haven't checked...

Cheers

WealdDomains

Hi Aiden,

What do you feel intuitively ? What's your gut reaction, not your response to applying a formula ?

Is it a tangible product or service, or is it something conceptual or emotional or abstract, or, say, medical or religious ? Does it have a geographical angle ? Is it an obscure variant on colour or size ? Is it something that typically exists in the plural or really just the singular ? Is the spelling and nature of the product mainstream English, or is it highly niche ? Is it more than x words long ?

So, what do YOU feel intuitively ? What's YOUR gut reaction ? Does it feel natural to YOU ? If it is aardvarks.co.uk, hypothetically, is that more valuable to a plumber or minicab company (because of alphabetical Yellow Pages placement) than a pet shop ?

I'm not saying don't speculate with six quid with two years left for it to come good, I'm just probing to see what you personally really feel about it.

Regards,
David

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Aiden Roberts

Thanks

I had a quick look at the .com and it' a bit of a mish mash in my opinion about biblical prophecies, not my bag so can't really comment

I do rememder stumbling across a facility to check the domain name history but for the life of me I can't remember where it was, if anyone knows the site please let me know.

Thanks

Aiden

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Aiden Roberts

David thank you; that has been really helpful, in fact I needed that and newbies like me should pay a lot of attention to your logic.

I have took the plunge as I am supposed to be a domain name investor and here it is:

tribulations.co.uk

Any ideas on what to do with it (I know this is not the appraisal thread) would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Aiden

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Edwin

Not register it? I certainly wouldn't have bothered, can't see any commercial potential in it and it's not "brandable" either.

Worth repeating: just because a domain's a "dictionary word" doesn't mean ANYTHING. The modern dictionary contains millions of words, the majority of which have no commercial significance in a domaining context.

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wb

The Wayback Machine at Archive.org?

With regards to the domain you have registered, I don't value it.

If you can't think of anything that a domain could be used for when considering registering or purchasing it, the chances are it won't be any good.

Obviously that's quite a broad statement, but generally true.

Edwin

Actually, it's the opposite: a very large part of being a "domain name investor" is learning when NOT to take the plunge. Jumping into registering names is one of the biggest "newbie mistakes" and a habit that is worth breaking as quickly as possible - healthier on the wallet, for a start...

Put another way: owning 100 or 1,000 worthless names doesn't make anyone a "domain name investor" - it just makes them a whole lot poorer!

Sorry if that sounds harsh, but it's worth taking the time to dig much deeper into the commercial potential of a name before forking out the registration fee.

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Aiden Roberts

@Edwin-thank you for your honesty, another lesson learned for me I think, ah well £6 gone; less beer

@wb-great thanks.

Regards

Aiden

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julian

Judging by what your saying, and looking at the domaisn you have registered, you'd be better off giving this up now and spending the money on lottery tickets... then again wtf do I know?

I suppose I only that i've wasted about 5k+ on shite in the past..