Comments on: Biking.com Domain Name Sells for $250,000

By: jj

jj — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:53:57 +0000

biking is a popular term for mountain biking – not sure whether it’s used as much for road biking. The term ‘mountain biking’ is actually more than twice as popular as the term ‘biking’ according to the Google Keyword Tool, with 110k/49.5k exact match monthly searches respectively.

By: jack

jack — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:38:14 +0000

biking sounds odd, no offense. Sounds like the olden days. Its 2010 boys, web 2.0!

By: adam

adam — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:10:04 +0000

Seems namemedia is having a premium domain garage sale lately.

@Gordon,I go biking all the time. I think you are wrong there. just look at the word use on google.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:50:21 +0000

Here’s the thing about that name – nobody uses the word “biking”. I don’t go “biking” I take a bike ride, go for a ride or something else.

great name, but might be tough.

By: John

John — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:46:40 +0000

Jack, I disagree. A lot of people turn to bikes for recreation. You’ve got motor-biking, recreational bikes, professional biking etc. I am sure lots of people buy their bikes/bike parts etc online too, and with biking.com you have the category killer.

The same goes for boating.com. Both great names.

John

By: jack

jack — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:51:02 +0000

Or I assume just hold the domain till 1 of the big bike companies wake up.

By: jack

jack — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:50:15 +0000

how will you make money with this biking domain? Only options I see are ads. Which means you need a ton of marketing dollars to get the traffic. Then you must keep them coming back.

Only thing that would make sense is to start your own line of bikes and brand them through this domain.

Any other ideas?