1,740,000 Annual searches and I could've owned it all

Let us know how you get on please.

Craig

In my personal experience, the .com is NECESSARY for Glory, type in traffic and branding.

If you are just going direct from SERPs and out again to an offer (with little branding or hope for customer return) then it really doesnt matter if you dont have the COM

You can outrank him/her with the .org

Go for it!

Thanks for the answers guys.

Greg, at this point I am not planning to sell anything directly but get traffic at first, and for that I need a search term that is going to dominate the entire market. If it does well I can put in an offer for the .com at a later stage. I am hoping not to make a website where people will not think they will see another boring offer to make millions with google but give them real information they need when they actually need it.

I will not be selling them anything just yet, I will maybe at the most have a few amazon offers placed discretely on my page...the money will come later

People who grab domains and just squat on them frustrate the heck out of me. But even I do it sometimes. I have a handful of domains I haven't used. But I plan to use all of them eventually. LOL

How many competing pages are there for this term?
Hundreds, but they are all spread out all over the place in a feudal system much like old England, no one has ever tried to get them to band together in a serious way before. Approaching others and building diplomatic links is my strong point from many years of experience, culminating in getting an exclusive interview with one of the most despised and secretive clans in the online computer games world (which is worth hundred of millions of dollars) for my website when no one else thought it possible.

How strong is each of the 1st ten competing pages (that's your real competition)?
Basically you are looking at the likes of IBM, Microsoft and AT&T.

A normal person would look at that and say privately..."I'm Screwed"

I am not all that normal.

Do you see any "easily displaced" pages like an EZA or some web 2.0 property in the top 10?
Yes. They are light years behind me once I get going and build a power base. I plan not to take from one source but thousands to uproot them and displace them from number one.

Is there traffic? (You did this part, great job!)
Yes, 2,000,000 individual searches every year for the exact name URL. This can be built upon over time when my name gets better known and people naturally get told about it.

I know that the chances here of me being successful are a million to one, but wouldn't it be something for people here to say that one of their noobiest members had the backing of five incredibly powerful dragons and made their millions?

Not only made their millions but became a superstar internet marketeer from the principles they found posted?

the best thing is the squatter probably does not know how to develop never mind rank that domain. Kiss there ass!

If its such a popular niche, trust me, the guy must be making a small bundle from domain parking alone.

And you know the bad part? As your site becomes popular, you visitors will mistakingly type in the .com version 25% of the time. Meaning, the 25% people YOU worked hard on getting will go to his parked page.

There's a reason why the domain industry and domain parking exists. There is NO better passive form of income than this.

hotsite.com

hot-site.com

ihotsite.com

i-hot-site.com

Do your linking and seo to your site and even with his domain it will be hard to catch up with you if you are adding content .

Any chance this domain is rune-scape.com ?

Who led you to believe that Melody?

Basically all those commercial companies with their millions in advertising revenue wanted a .com to show that they were a commercial business rather than a non profit organisation or a fly by night amateur in his bedroom messing around, that they had potentially millions invested to show the world that they had what in effect was a superstore rather than a carboot on a muddy field.

A .com is not really any better than any other domain suffix, it is simply better known because when the current internet format was new there obviously businesses looking to figure out how to make money, since .com was a commercial suffix obviously that got chosen by the vast majority when the original 3 were about. If there had been upto 20 different options .com might very well be nowhere at all. If you have information that people need it matters not what you name is if they are looking for you specifically or looking for something you provide if you are well ranked in google.

I don't know yet how this venture will go and will not say specifics until I have at least 6 months under my belt so that people don't get the idea of throwing £5,000 at it and killing me off lol

Anyways, to finally answer your question I would say No, I do not agree with that unless you are typing out every single URL manually. If you want to search for anything oyu use an engne and if your .org comes up top and the .com is nowhere near you are not going to scroll through thousands of pages to find it are you? lol

Besides, I have specifically gone searching for a niche that many people do not know exists until they have need for it. It is my hope to suddenly come out of nowhere and dominate all those search results and let the rest take care of itself through a mixture of information, forums and competions running bi-monthly.

Which will generate even more organic traffic.

Did you try sending them a "take it or leave it" offer of 500 and give them 24 hours to decide. You'll never know if you don't ask.

I've been hearing lately that .info & .orgs can bring in just as much money any .com site, so do it! ;-)

Yes, I guess you would call it an authority site and I will be linking to other sites hopefully that are authorities in their own right.

Right now the niche looks like a warring Scottish battlefield with hundreds of clans all over the place vying for position against each other...start with one and link to it, then the next and the next and the next.

It is an incredibly large field, something like a medical journal, I cannot possibly hope to do a detailed medical journal for absolutely everything that can go wrong with you myself...but I can get hundreds of other doctors to collaborate and simply make a single hub website that gives the basic information in an easy to find manner.

All the time collecting more and more links to the best websites in their field and having more and more of these little sites linking back to me again and then have forums for them all to talk and get invested in MY site

I have been doing some looking around and found that there is a similar site out there but all they do is simply have pages with a smattering of useless information, some statistics that are not really useful to anyone and other stuff that can be found elsewhere which is actually updated. And the most recent post in the "forums" if you can call them that is 9 months old. It is for all intents and purposes dead.

Just to rock your boat a little, maybe the .com is worth $5,000 and you may be able to pick it up for $1,000 or so.

So find out quickly whether you can make any money in this niche and then make him an offer.

It may be worth a lot more than you think, IF you have done your homework properly.

Sam