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11 years ago

Originally Posted by dc53123

I'm considering buying two domains that seems to have at least some value but I'm wondering what the consensus of the community is.

I have the opportunity to by both domains Loans.us.org and Grants.us.org. However, I don't know what the value is. Even if I simply made adsense sites out of these I think there is some value.

What do you all think? How much are these worth? Would you buy them if you had the opportunity?

Would love to hear feedback. thanks!

Depends how much you can get hold of them for, With new extensions it's hard to guess the value, but if it were me and I could get important one word domains like loans, then I'd take a gamble as long as it was a relatively small amount

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dc53123

11 years ago

Thanks KevL, I appreciate the input. I'm thinking the same thing. It is hard to know with these new domain extension names.

"Loans" has exact match of 90,500 searches
"grants" has exact match of 27,100 searches

However, both have high competition. Still thinking it may be worth a gamble.

For ranking though it may be a bit hard. Any thoughts?

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KevL

11 years ago

Originally Posted by dc53123

Thanks KevL, I appreciate the input. I'm thinking the same thing. It is hard to know with these new domain extension names.

"Loans" has exact match of 90,500 searches
"grants" has exact match of 27,100 searches

However, both have high competition. Still thinking it may be worth a gamble.

For ranking though it may be a bit hard. Any thoughts?

Yup of course - the benefit of exact match domains flies out of the window with competitive terms like this.

Just depends on what you can get the domains for. I'd have thought your profit would come from selling the domains on, not from ranking them on page one - if that's your plan, then I'd think again personally, long shot - lot of work & cost.

New extensions are a gamble, so I wouldn't gamble much - and if you're not into gambling, then I wouldn't bother ;-)

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salmanijaz

11 years ago

Originally Posted by dc53123

Thanks KevL, I appreciate the input. I'm thinking the same thing. It is hard to know with these new domain extension names.

"Loans" has exact match of 90,500 searches
"grants" has exact match of 27,100 searches

However, both have high competition. Still thinking it may be worth a gamble.

For ranking though it may be a bit hard. Any thoughts?

it completely depends on your consistency .... it will be difficult to rank in a sense that it takes more time but its pretty much possible to do it ...

Create great articles
Index your posts with social media
Create solid backlinks
Directory submissions

The same old school stuff ....

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talfighel

11 years ago

I doubt that you are going to get them for a low fee. I am guessing that someone has already registered them before you. Go ahead and see if you can be the first one.

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dc53123 11 years ago

@Talfighel

Yes, they are already registered by someone. I have the opportunity to buy them from this person. Would you do it if you could? What is the price limit you would set? Any thoughts or idea?
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- NatesMarketing 11 years ago
  
  I personally would not do it unless I had a solid plan in place.
  
  Like, if you can line up a buyer and flip the domains quickly. Then sweet.
  
  If you're buying them just to buy them....hmmm...what are you going to do with them? Build sites on them? How are you going to monetize?
  
  EMDs don't go to the top of search engines automatically - it will take work.
  
  Why is the person selling them?
  
  If you have a plan, go for it. No plan, I would let them go.
  
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dc53123

11 years ago

Okay, there have been some GREAT comments on this thread so far... which I appreciate so much. It sounds like the audience is split on whether to buy or not buy these domains. I realize that they can be monetized many ways including:

selling them
building a site around them (authority)
Placing content on the sites to rank them
etc...

These are all viable options and will take some work. I do realize that it would take some work to rank, which isn't a problem.

With all this being said.... does anyone have any ball-park figures as to how much they would pay for these domains? I'm looking for any guidance here on the price point I should offer. Any thoughts?

What would you pay for these domain names?

Thank you!

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andrewkar

11 years ago

Originally Posted by dc53123

Okay, there have been some GREAT comments on this thread so far... which I appreciate so much. It sounds like the audience is split on whether to buy or not buy these domains. I realize that they can be monetized many ways including:

selling them
building a site around them (authority)
Placing content on the sites to rank them
etc...

These are all viable options and will take some work. I do realize that it would take some work to rank, which isn't a problem.

With all this being said.... does anyone have any ball-park figures as to how much they would pay for these domains? I'm looking for any guidance here on the price point I should offer. Any thoughts?

What would you pay for these domain names?

Thank you!

For me these are as easy to get traffic to as any other domains so I would pay no more that $10 each.

You want them "Rank"...

I want TRAFFIC!

Two different things obviously so...

However, to be honest, I can take only ONE .biz or .info end get more TRAFFIC through Google than those two both will ever get.

However, if you want to sell them... That's a different story.

Just find someone who believes those domains are better than others...

(easy...)

To answer your question. If you are able to build some GOOD estates, I mean build some serious authority properties on those doamins, and then get some targeted traffic and show that you can monetize them...

Then you can push it for a quite GOOD Profit.

Just my 2c.

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sbucciarel

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by dc53123

I'm considering buying two domains that seems to have at least some value but I'm wondering what the consensus of the community is.

I have the opportunity to by both domains Loans.us.org and Grants.us.org. However, I don't know what the value is. Even if I simply made adsense sites out of these I think there is some value.

What do you all think? How much are these worth? Would you buy them if you had the opportunity?

Would love to hear feedback. thanks!

As a new domain extension, no I wouldn't buy them at all. These new extensions come and go, most with little success.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 11 years ago

I'd possibly be interested in buying loans.us.org, just for reg-fee, but less interested in grants.us.org.

I wouldn't be all that interested in the SEO/keyword considerations you've mentioned, and I wouldn't expect them to be particularly relevant to my own subsequent purchaser's decisions/valuation.

I've sold only a couple of hundred domain-names, myself, over the years, and very few that aren't ".com", and I'd want expert advice about how much to pay. And I mean "expert". No criticism intended at all, but I definitely wouldn't be trying to take advice or even to form an impression by asking here from semi-random, self-selected forum members of whose expertise on this subject I know nothing at all. Especially having seen so much of the "advice" offered in other "domain-valuing threads" here.

Suzanne, who posts above, is one of the very few people I'd listen to, on this subject, myself. And she wouldn't buy them.

Good luck with them, if you decide to buy them.

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andrewkar

11 years ago

I wouldn't touch any of them personally.

First thing, domains don't have that much value anymore. Google makes it clear, they like short domain names but not necessarily an exact name.

In terms of SEO they don't have value any more. No, they have some value IF you have no competitors...

So, I don't think it's worth to get them.

In my view is better to invest that sources in some traffic... or something like beer and kebab

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sbucciarel

Banned 11 years ago

Here's a thread from the WF when these first came out.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...worthless.html

and here's some more chatter about them.

.us.com and .web.com domains, , any good? [Archive] - Web Hosting Talk

Pro Bono Geek: Don't be Fooled by .us.com

I consider these domains to be subdomains and not top level domains.

Trouble with this advertisement from Network Solutions is that they are not, in fact, advertising a .us TLD... they are advertising subdomains of the .us.com domain. Note the .com is at the end, not preceding the .us like with .com.au (I just set one of these up yesterday, nothing special about Australia). So, what we've got going here is somebody (presumably Network Solutions or a subsidiary) spent the $20 necessary to register us.com--a process that is no different than when I registered prbonogeek.org--and is now going to sell subdomains of their domain for $20 per year and are passing it off as a ".COM Alternative!"

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Dan C. Rinnert 11 years ago

Seriously, if you have money you want to throw away, just send it to me. You'll never get it back, but at least the pain of loss will be immediate instead of months down the road when you regret the money and time you sunk into these domains.
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Murphysmurfy

11 years ago

They really aren't worth anything.

Those domain extensions are useless.

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onSubie

11 years ago

If whoever owns us.com ever drops the domain don't all the subdomains like loans.us.com just disappear?

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sbucciarel Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by onSubie

If whoever owns us.com ever drops the domain don't all the subdomains like loans.us.com just disappear?

Yes, they would disappear.
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Jack Gordon

11 years ago

Listen to the majority here...

I have been a domainer for over a dozen years.

If the seller is asking for more than low $xx for these, you will be overpaying.

If your goal is to flip these, you will be very disappointed unless you find a real sucker who doesn't believe in due diligence.

If your goal is to develop them, you won't get much bump from having such a name (in other words, you'll get zero type in traffic). Search engine traffic, you get out of it what you put into it. Might as well do that with a less desirable .com

I wouldn't do it.

I just bought a .cc domain because it was a one word, perfect match to a business I am developing. And I had to swallow hard before doing it, because even one word .cc domains are inherently bad investments. I only did it because I could develop it into something good. But while I am doing that, if a comparable .com were to make itself available, I would drop it in a heartbeat.

Why am I telling you this? Because as bad as .cc is for general commerce, .us.org is going to be 100 times worse.

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JayPeete

11 years ago

Originally Posted by rocket2uranus

Listen to the majority here...

I have been a domainer for over a dozen years.

If the seller is asking for more than low for these, you will be overpaying.

If your goal is to flip these, you will be very disappointed unless you find a real sucker who doesn't believe in due diligence.

If your goal is to develop them, you won't get much bump from having such a name (in other words, you'll get zero type in traffic). Search engine traffic, you get out of it what you put into it. Might as well do that with a less desirable .com

I wouldn't do it.

I just bought a .cc domain because it was a one word, perfect match to a business I am developing. And I had to swallow hard before doing it, because even one word .cc domains are inherently bad investments. I only did it because I could develop it into something good. But while I am doing that, if a comparable .com were to make itself available, I would drop it in a heartbeat.

Why am I telling you this? Because as bad as .cc is for general commerce, .us.org is going to be 100 times worse.

I have to agree here. It really isn't all that valuable if it is not a TLD (Top-Level Domain). You will be better off with a .com.

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Alex Blades

11 years ago

One word but two tld extensions lol

If the price is right yea, but I wouldn't pay much for it.

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Frank Donovan 11 years ago

Originally Posted by onSubie

If whoever owns us.com ever drops the domain don't all the subdomains like loans.us.com just disappear?

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Yes, they would disappear.

If Network Solutions own the domain, technically, wouldn't they also own the subdomains? In which case, a subdomain holder may not even have the right to resell it.

I'd run, not walk away from this "opportunity".
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winagain

11 years ago

Those could be a good investment if you can develop them. I am sure they will bring some good traffic if done right and a complete site is worth more than only a domain.

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MartinPlatt

11 years ago

Originally Posted by dc53123

I'm considering buying two domains that seems to have at least some value but I'm wondering what the consensus of the community is.

I have the opportunity to by both domains Loans.us.org and Grants.us.org. However, I don't know what the value is. Even if I simply made adsense sites out of these I think there is some value.

What do you all think? How much are these worth? Would you buy them if you had the opportunity?

Would love to hear feedback. thanks!

There are site if you Google that can give you an idea of the value of them based on their traffic and potential revenue, just as a guide.

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looster2012

11 years ago

I buy and sell, but other goods, not domain names. I can tell you, dont buy these unless you have a plan with a very good probability to sell them, or have a buyer lined up already.
it took me a long time to realize as a trader that the primo top shelf commodity in an area always does much better than cheaper, less desirable stuff, your gut feeling not withstanding.
the good stuff goes up well with a bullish market and holds it better in a bearish environment.
easiest way to sour you on the business is to have these in inventory and look at them every day for a year. keep your money in the bank til you find something valuable if you want to speculate.
best of luck.

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Malcolm Thomas

11 years ago

If you think you can make profits by purchasing the domain names then you should purchase them both if you can get them for a very reasonable fee.

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