Hand regging domains to sell? Include the word “online”
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Online is a commonly registered keyword — and most commonly sold.
If you’re looking to hand register domain names and list them for sale, here’s some simple advice: take a popular term and add “online” to it.
“Online” is consistently one of (if not the) most common words used in domain names. VeriSign’s updated DomainView tool shows the top 15 most registered keywords, and online is right at the top. Just about every time I view the tool’s tag cloud “online” is the biggest as well.
OK, so this tells you it’s a popular keyword within domain registrations. But does that mean you’ll be able to sell them?
As it turns out, online is also a popular keyword on the aftermarket. GoDaddy Auctions Domain Market Report consistently has online at the top of the list of most sold keywords.
So if you see a hot topic and the domain isn’t available, I’d take a stab at adding “online” to the end, e.g. populartopicOnline.com. Then list it for sale on GoDaddy Premium Listings (or similar services).
Further Reading:
I wonder how much that’s impacted by domainers.
A lot of “online” on the new tool, and on the GD market, but what about…sold?
Online at beginning or end is better?
no offense but i think this is terrible advice. Adding online to the end of a domain name really makes it worthless. Shell out the money for the generic premium .com for your business.
If you are had regging names that end with “online” to resell good luck with that – i cant ever see that being a viable business strategy of registering a garbage name and reselling garbage to uneducated end users.
@ Tony – in most cases I’d say the end of the word
@ Ed – The GD market report shows the most popular terms in sold domains — and Online is #1.
Cool! I just registered dnwonline.com. Thanks for the advice.
@ Cool – haha
So what about CloudOnline.com. Anyone interested?
I think that is decent advice, not everyone can afford to shell out for the keyword they want, so KeywordOnline.com is a good viable alternative. “Web” “Plus” “Direct” “Space” and “World” are other good ones to add onto a keyword. But really, most of these kind of domains are already taken too, and if available in the aftermarket would be MUCH more affordable than the pure keyword domain.
inameonly.com has onlinebarcoding.com
for sale with a matching toll free.
Just so you know.