Comments on: Domain name addiction

By: Predict Football

Predict Football — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:49:22 +0000

I like to buy domain names, I’d love to know if there were any single word .co.uk’s left and available for general purchase – as I’ve never found one. I bought my surname as a .me – that’s the nearest I’ve ever come to a one word domain.
Even two word ones are becoming fairly rare now I think.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:03:18 +0000

Great post. A lot of online marketeers will recognise this.

I recently started thinking about my domain to site ratio and made a conscious effort to get more sites live.

By: Richard J McPhalrin

Richard J McPhalrin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:09:46 +0000

Hey
Domain name addiction , great article, really well though out and very much enjoyed.

Cheers

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:53:45 +0000

I wonder if the person who bought the domain for £700 actually realises it’s incorrect for the name of the track? I must’ve asked a dozen people how they spell “Donnington” and they all said with 2 n’s. Food for thought!

In the end I went with a couple of donnington related ones (based on search figures for silverstone) for reg. fee! £20 instead of £700 Worth a gamble!!

By: frank

frank — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:40:04 +0000

@ Tom – it depends on how good the niche was and how valuable it was to me. I tend to register the .com and sometimes the .org.uk if I feel the domain is quite good in it’s own right (I done this with my previous thread with “facing bankruptcy” as I bought the .org.uk to cover myself too – if you fancy a bash at it, let me know and we can work something out )

@ Richard – yep I saw that auction and the person who bought that for £700 must need their head read, there is much better domains out there for that price. I may register a mistype for the reg fee, but wouldn’t pay £700 for a mistyped domain if I was planning on making a real go of it.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:02:08 +0000

Cheers for the replies guys… It’s all purely hypothetical now as I didn’t end up buying the domain. It was donnington \ co \ uk. Of course, Donnington is a place in Telford, and a few other areas of the country, but Donington is the name of the racing circuit (1 n vs 2 n’s). As the F1 is going to end up at Donington (more than likely), I thought it might be a good typo domain.

Cheers!

By: tom

tom — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:37:22 +0000

When you see what you believe to be a good .co.uk domain, how important is it that you take the .com (if available) and the .org.uk at the same time.

Are there any more extensions you would register to protect the value of your .co.uk domain?

By: wilsonf1

wilsonf1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:55:01 +0000

I bought a 3 word .co.uk last year for a tenner thinking “oh that sounds catchy” and it could have been used for voucher codes, discounts, money advice…. and basically i realised i didnt wanna get into all that!

sold it for £40 today so im pretty cool with that

i try to hold back from buying domains, even ones i know im going to develop – because once i have one im so impatient and just wanna get something live, but everyones advice is making sure google spiders something of value and not a holding page or half built pages…. but theres one domain im sure i can make £1000+ a year just sitting there under the worlds radar….

By: frank

frank — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:58:36 +0000

Hi Rich

It depends on many things.

Would you build a site on the domain with a view to get traffic from the serps ?

This is a horses for courses question, and if you can answer the above question I will give you my view

Frank

By: pete

pete — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:55:51 +0000

Hi Rich,

I would buy the main target domain, and the miss spelling, and re-direct the miss-spelling to the main domain.

Hope that makes sense.