Many people got lucky and sold their domain for unbelievable
prices. Was that pure luck? Or was there something that we
still don't know? Is there still domain-gold left in the
already mined domain market, to lay our hands on? Lets see.
First of all what we will look in some of the main reasons
which makes a domain priceless and sellable.
# Generic or Day to Day life words.
# Their extensions weather it is .com or .net. Its popularity.
(Right now .com)
# Less characters. (Say 4 or 5 at most)
# Their pronunciation. (Don't say epdu or something else
it is not pronounceable)
# The keyboard relationship. (It would be easier to type
in "tyru" instead of "oqzk". Some companies who wants brandable
names see this)
Now If we look into the very first point about generic or
day to day life words most of them are taken. So how to find
some other? Here is the tip. Just try and sit with a pen
and paper when you are watching television. Write down the
words that you think might be available as a domain name.
You can do the same when you are reading some novel or newspaper.
This trick surely pays I got many of my domains watching "Terminator" and "Home
Alone" kind of movies.
Now the extension. If you have found out a great word which
is already registered with .com extension. Then you can try
other TLD's. But in this you run into some kind of risk.
You can surely reg "fast.net" & "Love.net" but you can't
bet your money on "babyboydomains.net" or "Simplyrockingnames.org".
So just apply some thinking over here.
Talking about less characters If you find a 3 letter name
then just pounce on it. It really has the market. But there
are none available right now. So look for 4 or 5 character
names. Apply all our rules that we saw before and even then
if it passes through all that steps without a hitch then
take it in.
Pronounceable or not is also a factor. If you know english
language, which I think you will be knowing as you are reading
this article then there are no problems. For those who are
weak at english they can try http://www.thesaurus.com or
any other dictionaries which are available online to look
for that name.
Don't get discouraged if your word is not listed in it.
You can surely ask some other guy on chat who is not interested
in domains about this word. Otherwise the guy to whom you
are asking may reg it before you and all your dreams might
get shattered into pieces.
The last but not the least is the keyboard relationship.
Some companies may look into it. If they are willing to spend
their millions for this domain and other millions for marketing
it and making it into a brand. You can try this. some words
are just a flick on keyboard. As I said before "tyru" is
easy to type in. while oqzk is a bit tougher. Just try it
and see the difference.
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