Vote: What domain to buy

[da95649]

Hi all,

Im starting a new project and I have 3 domain names on the table, what Im kicking myself about is what domain to buy and what should be my primary address.

1.www.<keyword><word>.com
2.www.<keyword>-<word>.com
3.www.<keyword><word>.net

Now most would say go for number 1, but this is where is gets complex

1.
Established 200 back links
Age: 7 years 6 months old
DMOZ - No
Price : $50,000
2.
Secondary Domain Established however redirected to a primary domain
Age:8 years and 5 months
Dmoz: Yes
Price: $10,000
3.Secondary domain established however redirected to a primary domain
Age: 9 Years and 6 months
Dmoz: No
Price: $8,000

Now at first I sort of forgot about option 1 due to the price, however it does have links and the TLD is a .com. Then I thought number 2 is cheaper, has a hypen but not bad, in DMOZ, and has good age. Then Im saying to my self, option 3 has to be the one, is a .net however I have seen .net rank top 3 positions before, plus the most appealing is the age and price.

Can someone please play devils advocate and tell me what I should do.

Ps. Buying all 3 would be nice but too expensive

[jdancing]

Do these domains have pages cached in Google, do they have PR? Unless you really need the keyword in your domain name, you can buy better domains much cheaper.

[stu2]

How much money are you expecting to make with the domain? The .com would of course be best. I agree with jdancing you can get a good domain name for much less. I don't really get the fixation with having keywords in the domain name (it's nice I know) when you can get memorable names and brand them to your website/keywords and use seo techniques to get them ranked in the search engines. I'd hate to get the .net or hyphenated and then work hard building the website/business only to see traffic loss to the .com

[John Carpenter]

1.
Established 200 back links
Age: 7 years 6 months old
DMOZ - No
Price : $50,000

IMHO, a 7-year-old domain name that has only 200 "established" back links is not worth $50,000. If I were you, I wouldn't buy any of the domain names (unless they are substantially cheaper).

[edited by: John_Carpenter at 10:28 am (utc) on July 10, 2006]

[HarleyGuy]

Buy (keyword)(keyword)(keyword).com for 10 bucks.
(Or whatever new .com that will work for you.)

Spend $10,000 on a good seo firm, and you will be way ahead of all the other options.

No I do not own or am I affiliated with any seo firm.

[edited by: HarleyGuy at 11:13 pm (utc) on July 11, 2006]

[John Carpenter]

Spend $10,000 on a good seo firm

I wouldn't recommend that.

[wmuser]

All those names are overpriced.

[jdancing]

Please don't pay $10,000 for the SEO firm to buy you links while you wait in the sandbox for 18 months or more. Buy an established domain with rankings already. Just get one much cheaper than what you are thinking of paying.