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My original point though, is that they're only worth money to people who think they're worth money - domain speculators and 'cherished name' buyers. To anyone
by axod 16y ago
My original point though, is that they're only worth money to people who think they're worth money - domain speculators and 'cherished name' buyers.
To anyone else, if you think about it with a clear head, they're fairly worthless.
What is god.com? It doesn't get any traffic, have any users or product. If you bought it, you'd still have to find a way to get people to go there.
Yes, you could build a brand/product/service around it, but then you could just choose some other name for your brand/product/service.
The web is literally full of domains like this.
insure.com $16m Alexa 39,000
sex.com $12m Alexa 24,000
fund.com $10m Alexa 602,000
beer.com $7m Alexa 374,000
diamond.com $7.5m Alexa 103,000
So none of these get any real traffic, some are just holding pages asking for other silly people to buy them for millions.
- cd34 16y agogod.com used to be owned by a company called Guaranteed Overnight Delivery. Read up on that CEO sometime. :)
- axod 16y agointeresting article indeed... http://www.inc.com/magazine/19890701/5713.html http://www.inc.com/magazine/19890701/5713.html
- citricsquid 16y agoSo you wouldn't rather have irc.com than mibbit.com when you were starting out?
- axod 16y agoCertainly not. Despite the fact that irc.com would be blocking yourself into a specific protocol and not building a brand, I doubt anyone here has ever thought to go to irc.com. I think building it around irc.com would have actually worked against me. People see <familiar word>.com as mostly holding pages/made for adsense sites, as well as being "web 1.0". I did buy a domain - ircatwork.com. I bought it because it had users and traffic - things that are worth money.
- code_duck 16y agoWhile generic word .com domains attract lots of traffic which is good for banner farms, it hasn't seemed to have much of an effect on which businesses are on top of certain markets. I mean, who the heck is 'search.com'? And would anyone have thought 'google' would be a far more important term meaning search than 'search'?