I am thinking to buy some domains with country extensions, e.g .jp. .de .ru, I am not interested in these exact ones.
Do you think is worth the effort to register domains like
webhosting.country,
CheapInsurance.country,
HomeInsurance.country?
I would like to get some for parking and maybe to resell later.
- I know .US has good value but what are your thoughts about other country extensions for 2 words names?
- what about registering names written in English or in that country's language? That country's language is best, right? Is English names with other country extension good too?
Thank you.
-Adrian.
I have a question about country domains as well. I know of a small country I can register almost any domain in. 90% of 1 (ONE) letter domains are still awailabe (like a. b. c. 1. 2. 3. and so on).
Do you think its worth registering that kind of domains?
Thanks,
Gregor
[edited by: Webwork at 4:14 pm (utc) on Mar. 19, 2007]
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thank you for your post. No, there is no error. The country that I am talking about is so small that no one bothered to register those names. There are thousands of great names available, but the question is, would it be interesting for the market outside that country?
Inference: If they are still available at this late date chances are their value and desirablity are somewhere below bottom of the sales bin.
YMMV, but I've found from experience that when I get excited about something that isn't hidden, but appears to be overlooked, the "find" is often a misperception on my part. For example, a great unregistered domain, on second look, is actually a typo.
Of course even typos find love these days. ;)
loan.EXT
hotel.EXT with any country extension but think about the people who are going to use it.
Make sure your buys make sense to your target user.
Do you want to re-sell the domain? Or start a website? If the latter, how would you market it / what is is your target group?
For example, if you register an English name in a country where nobody will ever speak a word of English, you are likely to do that in order to promote the domain abroad (ie in the US or UK or internationally). In that case you should ask yourself if the TLD is marketable/trustworthy. For instance, I would not want to learn about finance and insurances from a Nigerian website...
Adrian, I also asked the same question a while ago and found some good hints in this post [webmasterworld.com...]Thanks, I will have a look.
It also depends on your intentions.
Do you want to re-sell the domain? Or start a website? If the latter, how would you market it / what is is your target group?
For example, if you register an English name in a country where nobody will ever speak a word of English, you are likely to do that in order to promote the domain abroad (ie in the US or UK or internationally)...
[edited by: adrianTNT at 11:12 pm (utc) on Mar. 22, 2007]
My question is: how does one do this?!? It seems like the only way we can purchase international domains is if we have a local address / legal rep in the countries where we need to acquire the domain names for. That's what we're being told by domain name brokers.
Any idea how to work around this?
I don't plan to start a web site, is more like buying some domains as a good long term investment.
Another thing to take into account is how much it's going to cost to hold that "investment" for the "long term".
Some very minor country codes don't have a lot of registrations because they are expensive.
Combine the higher cost of purchase (sometimes 10x or 20x more than a .com) with more years and the smaller market, and you ending up spending a LOT more money for a smaller (potential) return.
Waiting for example.gs or example.io to pay off could be a long expensive wait. In that time, you could have brought and sold many .com's with the money.
If you develop or at least park with keyword-rich pages a good keyword domain from one of the minor country codes you might lessen your costs but with very few exceptions (mostly gaming) it's unlikely you'd get any offers for them.
Another thing to take into account is how much it's going to cost to hold that "investment" for the "long term".
Some very minor country codes don't have a lot of registrations because they are expensive.
Combine the higher cost of purchase (sometimes 10x or 20x more than a .com) with more years and the smaller market, and you ending up spending a LOT more money for a smaller (potential) return.
[edited by: adrianTNT at 3:04 pm (utc) on Mar. 27, 2007]
