Would you buy football event domains?

[NiceNICDomainServerNiceNICDomainServer is verified member.]

Football event domains can look attractive for short-term demand.

One old example: Worldcup-Soccer.com was reportedly bought for about $13 and later sold for $1,500.

But the risk side is hard to ignore. fifa.plus was listed for $3,999, and fifa2022.com was reportedly offered for EUR 150,000 before ending up in WIPO cases.

Would you stick to generic football / fan / travel / guide domains, or avoid event domains altogether?

 

[HelmutsHelmuts is verified member.]

Football event domains can look attractive for short-term demand.

One old example: Worldcup-Soccer.com was reportedly bought for about $13 and later sold for $1,500.

.. hmm.. not really an seo domain.. yes, there are some backlinks to it, though, nothing serious.. + "soccer" is American English for "football"

 

[cloudcloud is verified member.]

Any obvious trademark like fifa is a hard no.

I have footballer in UK and co uk.not an event though, obviously.

I once regged russia2018tickets.com when it was announced, pointless

 

[deedee is verified member.]

i had fifa.cm for a bit a few years ago. Got a bit of traffic, but realised that trademarks (which I didnt think it was when reg'd it) are generally a way to nothing but trouble.

 

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i had fifa.cm for a bit a few years ago. Got a bit of traffic, but realised that trademarks (which I didnt think it was when reg'd it) are generally a way to nothing but trouble.

That's the dangerous part, traffic makes the name look tempting. But if the traffic comes with trademark trouble, it stops feeling like an asset pretty quickly....

.. hmm.. not really an seo domain.. yes, there are some backlinks to it, though, nothing serious.. + "soccer" is American English for "football"

Haha yes, it's not the prettiest domain I used it more as an old sale example than a "great name" example.

Any obvious trademark like fifa is a hard no.

I have footballer in UK and co uk.not an event though, obviously.

I once regged russia2018tickets.com when it was announced, pointless

I think that's the line too...