Why?
Do you have a strategy for this economy?
Me? I've slowed down considerably during the past 2 years but not stopped entirely with speculative fresh registrations. I rarely spend time searching. I haven't bought more than one or two domains at auction, in the past year, though there were some tempting "bargains".
I've spend some "down time" focusing on finding a few fresh regs mostly in the healthcare space, real estate, and legal verticals. Domains that I evaluate as having the highest PPC earnings potential, the likelihood of enough traffic in a year to cover the domain's cost, and a higher likelihood of resale when the economy recovers.
You?
Regards...jmcc
Tweeting domains. Who woulda thunk! :P
The amount of self-promotional, promo packaged as questions, etc. "noise" elsewhere has increased - markedly. Bleh. So I'm returning to my WebmasterWorld roots. The question is posed here - for any and all to address. :P
So, back on track: Who's still in the game? What drives you at this time?
[edited by: Webwork at 2:31 pm (utc) on Mar. 13, 2009]
Yes - buy, buy and more buying. If you think its a bargain in this economy it will definitely be a bargain in a booming economy.
There are always emerging demographic, economic, business and social trends.
jmcc, I think I get your reply. You're saying "Yes, there's signs of ongoing speculative domain activity and, like everything else, there are people exploiting the latest technology to do domain business.Yep. There is activity but there has been too much concentration on high value sales. Those have, I think fallen off and will continue to fall. If anything the competition has increased on these forums as resale values have fallen. I think that the volume of low value sales and near regfee sales is going to increase dramatically this year however it won't hit until the last quarter (effectively the anniversary + grace/redemption period of the easy credit disappearing).
Tweeting domains. Who woulda thunk! :PWell 140 characters is more than enough for some domains. :) However a lot of domaining is trend driven and trends like Twitter are natural extensions for domaining and domainers.
The amount of self-promotional, promo packaged as questions, etc. "noise" elsewhere has increased - markedly.It is a lot easier to filter on Twitter. However doing so on a forum is more difficult.
So, back on track: Who's still in the game? What drives you at this time?Simple answer? Survival.
Regards...jmcc
No need to give everything away.
:)
But . . I haven't . . yet.
I mean, I haven't talked about other important factors like 1) search volume; 2) search trends related to topic; 3) PPC and enduser values and projections about PPC; 4) timing; 5) PPC lander optimization, to get a truer sense of value; 6) . . . :P
As always, interesting observations jmcc, very "data driven" - which is your special (and appreciated) contribution to the domain dialogue. Thanks, as always.
[edited by: Webwork at 4:41 pm (utc) on Mar. 13, 2009]
This has actually given me an idea to register some more and I think Webwork suggested this last year?
I keep looking at some of the names being dropped etc yet haven't seen anything that takes my fancy.
I had to renew a load of widget .mobis last week, heck, they seemed expensive! I'm going to put most of those up for sale since I know I'm never going to get round to using them.
As always, interesting observations jmcc, very "data driven" - which is your special (and appreciated) contribution to the domain dialogue. Thanks, as always.Perhaps I don't intellectualise the business as much :), Webwork,
Regards...jmcc
