Is "Free" a Helpful, Worthwhile or Valuable Domain Prefix?

For what industries? Why? How does it work or help?

[webindia123]

Got one seller who is willing to sell freeword.com ...this word represents an adult industry. And domain turns out to be a 9 letter word. Is $20,000 worth it for such domain names. Please suggest. how much actually should we pay.

Thanks in advance

[tigger]

20k for a FREE word domain..So I presume this means another tube?

Your going to have to sell a lot of advertising to get that investment back assuming you can get past the main players that now dominate just about every free/streaming/download term

good luck ..your going to need it and not something that I would take on

[HuskyPup]

Is $20,000 worth it for such domain names.

The short answer...NO!

The long answer...Definitely NOT!

[webindia123]

Thanks for responses @huskypup, @tigger. So how much should we offer, any tentative figure that you can suggest.

thanks in advance

[webindia123]

Anyone for suggestive inputs ..!

[mcharalambous]

I'd go against it personally, i got my tube site to about 100,000 hits a month and was still not making a whole lot of money. And i did that with a random domain name.

Thinking about user intent too, when someone searches for "free+keyword" they are not wanting to pay for anything. So any affiliates Ads would do shockingly bad and normal CPM would be difficult to make good money...

[edited by: Webwork at 2:28 pm (utc) on Aug 14, 2012]
[edit reason] An almost but not entirely funny "offer" meets the "funny or die" test and perishes. [/edit]

[mcharalambous]

I would just not buy it at all...

[Webwork]

I'd go with the advice, above. mcharalambous somewhat nicely sums the issue up by observing that there's not a lot of money in "free".

Welcome to WebmasterWorld mcharalambous. Don't much mind the edit. As a noob or neophyte you're doing a good job. If you haven't done so I suggest you read this forum's "Charter" [webmasterworld.com ] as we're not (at all) like so many other domain forums.

We're so much better . . in so many subtle ways. ;)

[wolfadeus]

Hands off seconded.

[webindia123]

@All, Thanks for inputs

Since we plan to have one we have quoted $8k lets see if it works.