I have fallen prey to the domain name buying arena...:)
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I'm curious as to how others have determined when to develop a domain name.
Do you develop domain names that have a low unique visitor stat, knowing that you're really not losing anything, but possibly more to gain with getting traffic and possibly offering the domain for sale again <or do you develop domains with more traffic>.
I'm a small time guy. All of my domains are generally domains I'd like to develop. But, I'm wondering have there been any success stories of users developing their domains and falling in love with them.
[edited by: Webwork at 3:37 am (utc) on Feb. 23, 2007]
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I think one critical fact is that a domain, undeveloped but that doesn't receive (much) traffic will - absent some miracle - likely be stuck in that status forever.
Development opens all manner of new possibilities, especially if done right. Done right the domain name becomes one factor amongst many. Without development it all comes down to the web address.
The argument that has been around for awhile is that trafffic domains convert visitors (get clicks on ads) better than developed domains. What that means is anyone's guess. It could mean that visitors click on ads simply because there's not much elso to do. OTOH, the clicks on an undeveloped domain may convert rather nicely for advertisers because the visitors are rather well focused 'on the subject matter of the domain' - and the domain related ads.
