Are .cc domains worth anything?

Marhelper · 08-18-2008, 09:59 AM

Just curious if the .cc domains are valuable or essentially throw aways?

preets · 08-18-2008, 10:01 AM

In my opinion it is useless.

essmeier · 08-18-2008, 10:15 AM

It all depends on what you mean by "worth anything". If you're creating a Website where it's absolutely essential that your visitors remember the name and need to type it into their browser, I think a .com name is essential.

If your traffic is coming from search engines or PPC, I think other suffixes are fine, particularly if you've got a search engine friendly domain name.

My 2¢.

Charlie

Marhelper · 08-18-2008, 10:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by essmeier

It all depends on what you mean by "worth anything". If you're creating a Website where it's absolutely essential that your visitors remember the name and need to type it into their browser, I think a .com name is essential.

If your traffic is coming from search engines or PPC, I think other suffixes are fine, particularly if you've got a search engine friendly domain name.

My 2¢.

Charlie

Sorry for the lack of clarity. I am referring to resale value for a domain name. If I had a one word or three letter .cc domain, would it be worth much?

fm1234 · 08-24-2008, 03:29 PM

Unless it's a three-letter one-word generic, like say cat.cc then no, it almost certainly is not ever worth the reg fee. "Spastic" (eg. unprounceable/numbers+letters/etc.) three-letter .coms are currently going for a few-hundred dollars on average, and one has to assume that if you had the exact same thing as a .cc it might be worth a small fraction of 1% of whatever the .com went for.

Unfortunately there's no point holding onto it either, since .cc is not a TLD to which people tend to migrate if the .com, .net. .org, TLDs aren't available.

Frank

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essmeier HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Tooele, UT, USA. Posts: 219 Thanks: 0 Thanked 28 Times in 15 Posts	Re: Are .cc domains worth anything? It all depends on what you mean by "worth anything". If you're creating a Website where it's absolutely essential that your visitors remember the name and need to type it into their browser, I think a .com name is essential. If your traffic is coming from search engines or PPC, I think other suffixes are fine, particularly if you've got a search engine friendly domain name. My 2¢. Charlie

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fm1234 Senior Warrior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: , , . Posts: 1,021 Thanks: 6 Thanked 11 Times in 8 Posts	Re: Are .cc domains worth anything? Unless it's a three-letter one-word generic, like say cat.cc then no, it almost certainly is not ever worth the reg fee. "Spastic" (eg. unprounceable/numbers+letters/etc.) three-letter .coms are currently going for a few-hundred dollars on average, and one has to assume that if you had the exact same thing as a .cc it might be worth a small fraction of 1% of whatever the .com went for. Unfortunately there's no point holding onto it either, since .cc is not a TLD to which people tend to migrate if the .com, .net. .org, TLDs aren't available. Frank