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Right, so sled.com is probably pretty good, but webserver.com is probably useless. Sled could easily be the name of an app (totally unrelated to sledding of cou
by DanielStraight 13y ago
Right, so sled.com is probably pretty good, but webserver.com is probably useless. Sled could easily be the name of an app (totally unrelated to sledding of course), but Web Server can't be anything because it's too technical to be useful for anything not related to web servers and too general to be useful for anything that actually is related to web servers.
- tbirdz 13y agowebserver.com could be a nice personal domain for a blog or something, especially one related to http, etc. Though I would agree that the price it's going for seems inflated.
- jonnathanson 13y agoAgreed. The value of something hyper-specific and enterprise-sounding (webserver.com) is dubious at best. In the B2B sales and service business, having a generic domain name doesn't carry much upside, and what little measurable upside it does confer will be outweighed by downsides (such as the difficult registration and enforceability of the trademark). Apropos of nothing, a domain like truestory.com is an interesting tossup. At the expected going rate of $25k+, it doesn't appear to make a lot of sense. But if someone were going to buy this name and develop it as a blogging or magazine format, I could see some value (again, barring trademark difficulties). As a writer and aspiring publisher, I'd scoop up this domain if it were priced within reason: say, the $1k-$5k range, tops. As a businessman, I'm a little gun-shy about the price tag.
- smackfu 13y agoYeah, a good real-life example is hover.com. It's a domain registrar that has nothing to do with hovering, but it's a nice short dot-com that is pretty memorable.