Are those pricey, descriptive domain names still worth it?

Hey!!

During the domain-name-age, there was a rush for buying and selling of descriptive domain names like restaurant.com, job.com, eat.com etc

My question is, are they really worth it? Or are the more unique,creative and catchy names like facebook, twitter, photobucket, tinypic...and so on, and so on?

If you have a website you run right now as a business and had a chance to get a descriptive name FOR FREE, would you take the offer? Assuming that your traffic remains the same? Or assuming that you are starting right now

Just curious

Who actually types names into the browser bar any more? It’s all just clicking on links from advertising or search engines.

(shrug)

who knows. was just wondering if they are really worth it these days

I think it’s worth getting a good domain name that fits the company, preferably the company’s name. For example, if I owned a restaurant called Bill’s Grill (no, my name is not Bill ), I would want billsgrill.com over grilledfood.com. I don’t know if this is what you’re talking about or not, so I suppose to answer your question I would say names like Facebook are better. Creativity is better than just a description in my opinion. However, in many cases the description is the creative name as well, so it depends. That’s my $0.02.

Since billsgrill.com is no doubt already taken, billsgrillinatlanta.com would do just as well, since people will probably do a search for "grills atlanta" and click on your link.

What is needed now is a USB device to use as a business card folder; plug it into my cellphone and get my business’s email address and website. Plug it into your computer and save it.

Although I suppose that wouldn’t be such a good idea, because there are so many a**-orifices in the world that would use them to infect everybody else’s cell phones. I do so despise the greedy, selfish troublemakers in this world!

Quote from: designetic at Aug 06, 2009, 03:50 PM

(shrug) who knows. was just wondering if they are really worth it these days

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10304782-56.html

:P

When I created Words Matter, wordsmatter.com wasn’t available so I had to put the site at wordsmatter.softville.com. If someone offered me my original choice, I’d certainly take it, even now, although I couldn’t afford to pay anything other than a token amount for it.

In my opinion it initially all comes down to a domain name that is descriptive. I’m going to have a much easier time getting better search engine results with a domain name that contains keywords.

Things have definitely changed, a few years back it was considered a waste of time have a domain name with more than 10 characters.

Taff

It may be surprising but many people still type in keyword domains such as cars.com or wedding.com...

If you look at the search results for highly competitive keywords - eg: "debt consolidation" the top search results all have the keyword ’debt’ in the domain and most also have consolidation. Also note how the keywords are highlighted in the search results...

Keywords in url are very important in highly competitive industries

I am pretty sure that there is still a huge market for direct name domains.. job.com is most likely worth a lot! I have a friend who bought a domain ages ago for his wife’s business but they never used it. last week he received an offer for it and called me to ask my opinion. after we talked he then called the buyer and made what we considered an insane offer and they accepted it almost immediately... should have asked for more and negotiated a commission for myself