DOMAINS: Give a Ballpark Figure

You have got to ask yourself what sort of commercial site someone could build using these domains.

None of these domains have any commercial value and would be of no interest to someone wanting to build a commercial website site.

I would take serryjw's advice.

Value is in the eye of the beholder. For me, none hold any value - especially given they are dot info names. Most people prefer dot com names - some insist on it.

The best chance you have of selling these is to develop them, get some traffic to the sites, and monetize the traffic.

You're most likely going to have to do some work to identify people that will see the domains as having value for some reason.

Good luck to you,

Steve

Have to agree that most are a total loss. I personally would not sell "aboutpolitics.org" just yet I would build up a little site for that, and back link the daylights out of it for about 6 months.

There is more than $100 potential there, it just needs to be developed a bit.

Domain extensions ending in ".uk" are useful for people who want to attract British-only traffic, rank well on google.co.uk (and also host their sites inside the UK). But just like various other domain extensions, one has to ask oneself whether it's really a good long-term proposition to try to build a business on a domain-name of which the .com extension already belongs to someone else (and this is the real issue, I think, with using non-.com extensions). It's fine to build a UK-niche site on a ".uk" extension if one also owns the .com version of the name, of course.

I know little about ".us" domains, am not eligible to register one, and wouldn't actually want to, anyway, to be honest. I think they're very useful for "branding names" in which the extension is cleverly included within the site's intended name/brand, though. I'm thinking of things like postero.us, delicio.us, and so on.

The only one of the names above which I'd have considered registering, myself, is aboutpolitics.org, which I think could be monetized with a suitable site and re-sold on the basis of its proven income as well as its potential (though, even then, its value is going to suffer a lot through not being the .com variant).

For resale purposes, I register only .com domains, of which I've traded a few hundred over the last 4-5 years.

I think your friend would be very well advised to do some research on domain-names before registering any more. If s/he wants to learn "the tricks of the trade", this mailing-list is a very good place to start: http://domainprofitsacademy.com/subscribe (Gene Pimentel is the person whose advice on the domain business s/he should value, respect and acquire. Might as well "start at the top". )

You need to do some research before buying domains rather than after. A domain needs to have some commercial value and I don't see commercial value in your list. AboutPolitics is too generic for a commercial political site and the others probably aren't worth the reg fee. Of course, someone could come along who thinks one of them is nifty, but probably not.

Once you have a domain that is worth something, you then have to go out and hunt the potential buyers that might find the domain useful to them. Trying to sell domains passively, even good ones, is often a slow process (sometimes very slow).

I love to go to this page to keep up on the fantastic domain sales every week.

Long Isn't Always Wrong: Three-Word .Com Tops This Week's Domain Sales Chart

.co.uk are ok for those of us here in the UK who have a local website. Not really worth anything much though.