Mispelled premium domains

[dnauctions]

Has anyone sold a misspelled premium domain name?

I've got spacecenter.co.uk +.uk and cruize.co.uk +.uk but no idea if anyone has actually made anything decent from the misspelling ??

 

[Edwin]

Surely misspelled automatically negates premium?

 

[Murray]

I know triangl sold for a x,xxx amount

But I think that was a case of someone knowing about the brand rather than just registering a misspelled domain and hoping though

 

[dnauctions]

Surely misspelled automatically negates premium?

I agree with you, I was not implying they are premium themselves, rather a misspelled version of A premium name.

 

[bonusmedia]

IMHO SpaceCenter.co.uk is worthless, Cruize.co.uk maybe has some (limited) value - but it's a rare outlier

Cruises.co.uk is among the highest value uk domains ever sold and cruize has at least some search traffic, which suggests it may have some small amount of type-ins.
Your best bet is probably monitoring the type in traffic and selling it (or if it's high enough selling clicks/leads) to an established cruise brand.
Strongly doubt it's worth developing, the cost of ranking in this vertical will be enormous so why bother with a domain that fails the radio test?

My guess is that misspellings of generics have some (declining) value in .com but very rarely any for .co.uk

Outside of generics you're on dodgy ground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting

 

[dnauctions]

IMHO SpaceCenter.co.uk is worthless, Cruize.co.uk maybe has some (limited) value - but it's a rare outlier

Cruises.co.uk is among the highest value uk domains ever sold and cruize has at least some search traffic, which suggests it may have some small amount of type-ins.
Your best bet is probably monitoring the type in traffic and selling it (or if it's high enough selling clicks/leads) to an established cruise brand.
Strongly doubt it's worth developing, the cost of ranking in this vertical will be enormous so why bother with a domain that fails the radio test?

My guess is that misspellings of generics have some (declining) value in .com but very rarely any for .co.uk

Outside of generics you're on dodgy ground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting

I only listed those two purely as an example, but I understand and appreciate where you are coming from.

I also own and operate a number of niche travel agencies so we may use cruize.co.uk internally as a promo landing site.

 

[bonusmedia]

If you sell cruises then you're in a much better position to judge than me - but personally I would reg cartercruises.co.uk or something you can build into a proper brand and just redirect it

 

[dnauctions]

If you sell cruises then you're in a much better position to judge than me - but personally I would reg cartercruises.co.uk or something you can build into a proper brand and just redirect it

I'm currently building www.mysterycruises.co.uk for the UK market, but I've used many other unique ond obscure URL's for some of my closed market travel groups. I've never bought a domain with my own name in it, i prefer to be behind the curtain.

 

[bonusmedia]

Just about any domain will have value if you build something good on it and market it and put enough time and resources in.

Every domain is by definition unique. Obscure is maybe not great if you're trying to build a brand with recall value or search value or any value really

Maybe you should change your username?

Do you want to buy LateDealHolidays.co.uk? 27K monthly UK exacts with CPC of £1.33. No sensible offer refused

 

[RobM]

I would have thought if you can't spell 'cruise' it would be unlikely you can afford one.

 

[dee]

I would have thought given even cruise.co.uk has an alexa of 135,390, even cruise couk doesnt get stupid traffic (based on a reverse engineering equation via netberry that equates to about 705,000 a month ) Typo traffic wouldnt be amazing even though the z and s are in typo vicinity. Probably better as a brandable ?

Saying that if you type"cruize" the first thing you get is PPC ad for cruise. co.uk . Maybe try sell to them as it being part of their campaign ?

 

[dee]

Oh.... and if anyone wants fiberglass.co.uk I have it much to my post catch facepalm. My missus is American so it all blurs into one massive spelling mistake ( much like the spacecenter American spelling)

 

[dig bick]

I'm guilty of that too when I registered potatoe.co.uk (or was it .com) and thought I was a genius.

Center isn't too bad as I'm sure a lot of people in this country spell it incorrectly anyway. And it probably won't be too long until the US spelling becomes acceptable over here!

I don't know if they sold for much but flickr, grindr, tumblr are the top typo domains that spring to my mind.