When buyin a domain, what exactly do you look for?

[KevinG]

Originally posted by RyanLanane@Feb 7 2005, 06:29 AM
Also, can someone explain when they say "That is ranked as #2 in overture" etc. etc. etc - In other words when people are buying domains and all the things they look at can you guys please elaborate exactly what defines a valuable domain name.

For example, if I am looking at a comparison of the things that are important betwen porno.com and porn.com could you should me what the results are for each site and how you get these?

I know this is a hassle, but I am interested in learning more about this - Not that I have many domains worth much more, purely for the sale of learning

The only domain names that are worth money just for the sake of having the domain name itself are popular words that may be typed in, such as "golf", "wine" or "sex".

I think this value is even declining as more people use serach engines and don't type in names. When you look at the top search phrases on Wordtracker it's idiotic searches like "AOL", "Yahoo", MapQuest".

The general surfer is so fucking stupid that they go to Google and search on Yahoo to find it. Duh!

To answer your question about porn vs. porno, according to Wordtracker, in the last 60 days, porn is the winner by far.

porn 204,811 searches
porno 32,792 searches