It's fairly amazing. It's 2007. The WWW has been a fairly hot property since 1999. 8-9 years later and many many folks who should be catching on appear to still be lost in the woods. "They'll just find us in Google." Yeah, "us" and 500 other competing businesses.
Any domain on the list may be subject to a trademark claim so do your due diligence before registering any domain name. You register any domain at your own risk. The list is not an endorsement nor advice, just a report of what "localized domains" remain unregistered.
Do I think they should be available? No. Not if local businesses had their eyes on the ball and their head in the game. Probably many are still renewing their yellow page ads and not going far beyond that thinking.
Do them a favor: Choose a domain, build an on topic website and find a customer who either likes your website or who wants to advertise.
Have fun. Play nice. Share.
1)ARIZONAAIRPORTLIMOUSINE.COM
2)AZAIRPORTLIMO.COM
3)COCONDOMINIUM.COM
4)FLORIDAAIRPORTLIMO.COM
5)GEORGIAAIRPORTLIMO.COM
6)ILCONDOMINIUM.COM
7)ILLINOISREMODELER.COM
8)INHOUSEFORSALE.COM (IN = Indiana; Where are the realtors?)
9)MAAIRPORTSHUTTLE.COM
10)MAARCHITECT.COM (MA = Massachusetts, which is a bit long to type)
11)MAELECTRICIAN.COM
12)MALANDSCAPING.COM
13)MALIMOS.COM
14)MAREMODELING.COM
15)MARYLANDAIRPORTLIMO.COM
16)MATOURISM.ORG
17)MDPRINTING.COM
18)MSMOVER.COM (MS = Mississippi, you get the picure)
19)MTHOUSEFORSALE.COM
20)NASHVILLETOURISM.ORG (Some work under .Org better than others)
21)NCAIRPORTSHUTTLE.COM
22)NEVADAAIRPORTLIMO.COM
23)NEWJERSEYAIRPORTLIMOUSINE.COM
24)NEWJERSEYREMODELER.COM
25)NJREMODELER.COM
26)NVLIMOUSINE.COM
27)NVMOVER.COM
28)NVPHOTOGRAPHER.COM
29)NVREMODELING.COM
30)OHIOAIRPORTLIMO.COM
31)ORHOUSEFORSALE.COM
32)PAAIRPORTSHUTTLE.COM
33)PAELECTRICIAN.COM
34)PAREMODELER.COM
35)PENNSYLVANIAREMODELER.COM
36)SANANTONIOAIRPORTLIMO.COM
37)SCAIRPORTSHUTTLE.COM
38)SCELECTRICIAN.COM
39)SCLANDSCAPING.COM
40)TEXASAIRPORTLIMO.COM
41)TEXASAIRPORTLIMOUSINE.COM
42)TNCONDOMINIUM.COM
43)TNLIMOUSINE.COM
44)TNMOVER.COM
45)TXAIRPORTSHUTTLE.COM
46)TXELECTRICIAN.COM
47)TXLANDSCAPER.COM
48)#*$!#*$!#*$!#*$!#*$!X (Oops, I changed my mind)
49)VAELECTRICIAN.COM
50)VALANDSCAPER.COM
51)VIRGINIAAIRPORTLIMO.COM
52)VIRGINIAAIRPORTLIMOUSINE.COM
53)WISCONSINTOWNHOUSE.COM
TXElectrician.com
COcondominium.com
ILCONDOMINIUM.COM
ILLINOISREMODELER.COM
VAELECTRICIAN.COM
VALANDSCAPER.COM
WISCONSINTOWNHOUSE.COM
INHOUSEFORSALE.COM
ORHOUSEFORSALE.COM
TXLANDSCAPER.COM
I left a bunch of good ones in the spirit of fair play. These were also available earlier in the evening:
DESMOINESSIDING.COM
LexingtonSIDING.COM
HoustonBoatRepair.com
There are still plenty of opportunities - even at reg fee for those willing to invest/risk a little.
Thanks Webwork.
Thanks, Webwork - some good names in there - I owe ya one :)!
[edited by: MamaDawg at 1:01 pm (utc) on July 15, 2007]
This is a "food for thought" moment, a lesson by example.
It's also illustrative of the s l o w uptake by local businesses of a reasonble strategy for business survival in the era of online marketing and advertising.
If you have a client, a cousin, a friend in a business that provides a service in a geographic region you should advise that person to "put the two together".
It's probably not a stretch to conclude that most folks think that "If I have a website people will find me". Sure, if they are looking for you - exactly "you" - and not the service you provide.
Worse than people not exactly targeting "you - your company" I suggest you read, if you are a WebmasterWorld supporting member, my thread in the Supporter's Forum where I discuss "web reputation management":
[webmasterworld.com...]
Even when people are "looking for you" they may not find you, at least not at the top of the SERPs.
Save a horse. Ride a cowboy/girl.
Save a business. Register a service/geo domain.
I'm curious how you monetize these domains - I can see that they would be of real value to an end user who for example had an Arizona airport limo service - but I can't imagine you would get many "type in" visitors to azairportlimo.com
So how do you cover the $7 per year reg fee while you sit on the domain waiting for the perfect buyer - or until you develop a site yourself?
Presumably, covering the reg fee must be quite important to you, since you've registered - I believe - many hundreds of these geotargeted domains.
[edited by: Tiebreaker at 2:38 pm (utc) on July 24, 2007]
However, the goal is that in 2,3,4 or 5 years when even a small percentage of the small businesses out there "get it" you will hopefully be able to sell names like these to them for more than you paid.... (remember - someday an electrician will realize that when his average job is $500 or $2,000 that a domain name for $250 or $500 or $1,000 plus $7 per year forever is pretty darn cheap to have in his holster).
Go buy 200 geo domains like this at $7 each = $1400 per year. 5 Years = $7,000.
Do you think that within 5 years you will be able to sell 30 of these names for $300 each? If so you make money. Sell 30 at $400 and run the numbers....and so on.
But it seems like quite hard work to try and make a few thousand dollars though - with a possible worst case scenario that after 5 years you haven't sold one domain and you've blown $7,000 in reg fees
Contrast this with the minimal work involved in taking one domain name and developing it into a small project generating $1000 per month
Five year business plan:
Guaranteed income: $60,000
Potential downside: Zero
Development is the way to go for me.
I'm open to a bit of domain name speculation - but I'm much more comfortable with that business model if the name can generate $7 per year while I'm holding it.
I have lots of names that don't earn the reg fee, but I'm happy to hold them because they are perfect for future project that I plan to develop - however, I wouldn't be so keen to keep paying out the reg fee each year in the hope I might get a few hundred dollars offered for it in the future.
Five year business plan:
Guaranteed income: $60,000
if it is that easy to build a site to make $1,000 per month i wouldn't be here right now. And it certainly isn't guaranteed income. I have made much more on my sites than I have on domains - but I just cashed a nice check for a domain that has paid for every domain I have ever bought, (including some on the aftermarket that i have built nice brandable sites one.).
Within the past month I have registered a number of domains involving a product / service whose price is about $25,000. (TexasServiceX, NewYorkServiceX) - I have little doubt that I will be able to sell these names for a few thousand dollars at some point within the next 5 years.
I've recently registered 1-2 geotargeted names myself that I'm pretty sure I could sell for a few thousand to the right end user - but I don't have any interest in trying to find a buyer - there's a lot more to be made from developing them.
