As Seen On TV. lostarmymates.co.uk
I won’t repeat myself here, so go and read this post about a domain I registered last night after seeing it displayed in a crime drama.
It’s got me thinking …I wonder what smart domainers have done really well out of a domain name that was initially a ficticious one referenced in a novel, film, etc ?
Anyone know of any?
shredderscissors.com
Yet another domain coincidence! I spotted an advert in The Telegraph the other day for multi-blade scissors that were described as shredder scissors. Not convinced of the idea myself - they are promoted as not needing electricity, but manual paper shredders are readily available for just a few pounds.
Spotted that shredderscissors.com has been registered and parked today - I wonder if I’ve given them their first type-in?
Suppose it demonstrates the power of domain names and potential (in this case actual) type-in possibilities.
hmm should I get the .co.uk? Might regret it but nah.
growingmyown
I’ve had growingmyown.co.uk for a few months now for my allotment blog - yes, I do need to update it! Whilst just checking this evening I spotted that growingmyown.com has been registered today by www.belgiumdomains.com - bit of a coincidence that.
What Am I Missing?
This just doesn’t seem right to me. There’s an auction running on sedo for myplanetickets and at time of writing it’s had one bid, meeting the reserve of $800. The stats provided indicate a traffic number of some 517 visitors/month …since June as the whois info indicates a creation date of 06-Jun-07.
Can it be this easy?
A Trial Promotion
I’ve just submitted clearcutloans.com for promotion over at sedo to find out how the selling process all hangs together. Assuming of course that someone wants to make a suitable offer for the domain.
I selected featured domain promotion for both sedo USA and UK markets for a total of $49 - about £25.
Lets see what happens.
Disney Buys scrum.com
The Telegraph reports today that ESPN, Walt Disney’s sports network has bought the UK based rugby website scrum.com for an undisclosed sum.
ESPN also owns cricinfo and soccernet
Frank Schillings Vital Statistics
A post over at domaintools suggests that Frank Schilling receives around 30 million unique visitors a month across his portfolio of some 320,000 domains.
So, 30,000,000 / 320,000 = 93.75 uniques for each site per month
or very approx 3 uniques per day per domain on average.
Obviously some of his stronger domains will be receiving many more uniques each day and the more obscure domains less so. I’ve no idea exactly how much revenue these 320,00 domains generate, though I suspect it is a very high figure. According to the post above, Frank makes a $100 everytime he exhales! It demonstrates the strength of a portfolio of quality generic domains.
Better For You
You can just imagine some company adopting the slogan Better For You.
And when one does, I hope it’s in the UK because I’ve registered betterforyou.co.uk
In my opinion, it’s very generic and could be used by any number of organisations. There are loads of these upbeat, flowery, slogans around and one more won’t hurt. Anyway, let’s see what happens in terms of type-ins over the coming months.
You Say Color, I Say Colour
Whilst dot com has worldwide recognition and therefore demand it occurs to me that country specific spelling and wording has significance.
For example, in the USA you say color (as in coloringbooks.com - owned by Mr Schilling I think) but here in the UK we say colour (as in colouringbook.com - although owned by this USA company). Another example that springs to mind is center (USA) and centre (UK) .
And then there are different words to consider. I was undertaking a little research and soon realised that the USA commonly uses freight but in the UK the word haulage is commonly used. Optimise versus optimize is another classic difference.
I think that it’s important to remember these subtle language differences, especially when one assumes that the largest market for domains is the USA.
Covering The Fees
I’ve purchased about 10 domain names in the last couple of days and got the individual purchase cost down to $7.15 (so that’s about £3.58 in my currency).
So, on average each domain I park has got to bring in a revenue of $0.02 (£0.01) everyday to cover the purchase costs. Obviously if the renewal registration fees increase then the required daily revenue earn needs to increase too. I’m ignoring my time spent too.
It’ll be interesting to see how much type-in traffic my domains receive over the next 12 months.