Here are the three in my portfolio that I like the most.
Causal acquaintances often ask me what my “best” domain is. It’s a tough question. I’m sure if you looked at my portfolio you’d come up with different domains than I would. That said, here are the three from my portfolio that I’d probably ask the most money to part with.
ExecutivePay.com/net/org – mainstream talk about executive pay peaked in the years after the economic meltdown. But executive pay has always been a major area of human resources consulting. There are also publications, such as Wall Street Journal, that have entire sections devoted to the topic of executive pay. I think this domain would be great for a consulting company or a publication.
AuctionBlock.com – I love this domain. It’s such a common business term — a very common term of an entire business category — and there are hundreds of potential buyers. It would be great for an online auction service, an auction house directory, a real estate auction business, or even a business or private equity publication.
iInk.com – You may be perplexed by my choice of this four letter domain as a top domain. I like this domain because of the rapid move to eBooks and electronic media, tablets, etc. The only thing I don’t like is the double i at the beginning. I may be irrational, but this is one I wouldn’t let go cheap.
I’m going to cheat a little bit since this is my blog, and list a couple others I like. One is Lakeway.com, which I created a directory site for. Lakeway is a booming suburb of Austin on Lake Travis. There’s a new $250 million hospital and literally thousands of high end homes being built in the coming years. A lot of people moving to Austin or within Austin target this community specifically; it would be a smart buy for a builder. I also like my PatentTroll.com and PatentTrolls.com domain names. The commercial use is somewhat of a stretch (maybe an IP defense law firm?), but given all the talk of patent trolls in the media these are on my “favorites” list.
So, what are your three favorite domains in your portfolio?
Troy says
A couple of my favorites… without dashes of course.
P-h-o-e-n-i-x.org
C-a-n-c-u-n.org
I estimate you are going to get a lot of comments. Everyone likes to show off=)
Jeff Edelman says
Our three most valuable are student.com, student.net, and springbreak.net. But my favorite one is pileofwank.com. One of the great things about the internet is that it has introduced me to some British slang. And as soon as I heard a British guy refer to something disdainfully as a “pile of wank,” I just had to see if the domain was available and grab it.
WebsiteToSell says
Here are the top 3 in my portfolio.
1. Gybes.com – 5 letter dictionary word domain whose letters could be an acronym for a search evaluation service or similar service. G (Google) Y (Yahoo) B (Bing) E (Evaluation/Exact/Estimated etc.) and S (Search/Service/Stats etc.)
2. BlouseForWomen.com – Common Search Phase. Ideal for a online/offline business or boutique. It would be a good name for the retail outlets as well to drive online sales.
3. PurpleSunglasses.com – Popular Search Phase. Excellent name to get a piece of a very profitable online market: Sunglasses.
There you have it. This question made me think.
Troy says
Jeff,
We should do something with Cancun.org and SpringBreak.net=) They are like two peas in a pod.
Anthony says
Just got back from The Oasis Resto.
Not much of a lake, Lake Dry Travis or No Lake Travis, and the city change it name to Dryway.com
It is sad to see….
The lake is down 40 feet and 58 feet down 3 years ago last time we were there.
Ask Ex Pres Bush and any GOP member NO SUCH thing as Global Warming, it is natural…..
Andrew Allemann says
@ Anthony – the lake level is pretty brutal, but it was like this just a few years ago and bounced back.
Daniel says
My most recent favorite purchases have been:
AllSportsPass.com (created 2001)- Common term among College/Universities promoting to students one sport pass/ticket for all sport venues;
DollarSupplies.com (created 2001)- Great keywords for people seeking dollar deals – hey, we all need supplies…; and,
SmartCardRewards.com (created 2000) – Thinking of monitizing this one….Maybe consider BankAds.com.
Jason Davis says
Hi Andrew,
My 3 that I like the best are
1. VideoJobs. com
2. Slouch. com
3. SemiconductorJobs. com
I get offers on VideoJobs all of the time but I can’t come to terms with selling it unless the number is right.
Bjorn says
like:
FreeClouding.com
SmartphoneComparison.com
ExistingHome.com (real estate related, existing home sales)
Mike Awada says
A few non .com’s that come to mind are:
TweetAt.Me
Wearable.Co
TooHotFor.TV
Gene says
SentimentAnalysis.Org
VMAnalytics.com
MyAlgo.com
But simply banking on individual names isn’t where I place my bets. Instead, I like to build niche portfolios – and dominate 70%-80% of the space(s). So I own 260 ‘Sentiment’ (dot-coms), 130 ‘Graphene’ (dot-coms), and 230 ‘Hologram’ (dot-coms).
In addition, I hold smaller portfolios covering ‘Proximity’ (mobile dating), ‘Elk Creek’ (rare earth minerals) and ‘Free’.
Joe says
– Coater.com (great industrial 1-worder)
– iBrandNames.com (generally speaking, I don’t like brandables and suffix names, unless they make sense and I believe the ‘i’ for ‘Internet’ here makes a lot)
– BosniaAndHerzegovina.org (exact match country name, there are only 200-ish of them)
Don says
I don’t have any category killers, but here are 3 of my favs..
trainingsession.com
etrainings.com
gnarl.com
Bob says
Couponing.ca
CouponingWorld.com
Hubs.me
TBC says
together.tv
silly.tv
beachmarket.com
RAYY says
4gSmartphones.com
BreakingJobs.com
iTablets.CO
Nebraska says
SplitTesting.com
ChicagoMarketing.com
IllinoisGreen.com (have many state-green domains)
CH says
GraffitiCreator.co (10-20 type-ins per day)
SandCastle.co
Cloudfidential.com
don says
thehomesource.com
movingrebates.com
visitrio.org
RH says
You got some nice ones there Andrew.
My favorite 3 like you not saying they are the ones that would sell for the most.
Nerfy.com I own a lot of 5 letter pronounceable names this one has an urban dictionary entry Nerdy + Goofy
BareBeauty.com which works as a clothing,beauty products or spa name imo.
14tv.com the rareness factor that all NN and LL tv.com just rare and non available for years.
Louise says
@ Andrew, You have some nice domains. I remember Comptroller.com. I like Lakeway – good job, developing it!
iInk is a great domain! For one thing, because of ereaders, and the other thing is:: eink is growing it seems exponentially like thin film and smart substrates, as a means to lay down circuits.
Jacek says
I’ve just bought ePHENOMENON.com -> nice one isn’t it?
My favorite one is MostIntelligent.com
regards
Jacek
Kevin M. says
Don’t know if I have any ‘best’ names :(, but 3 favs I have are:
BeautifulFaces.com
DreamBelieveAchieve.com
LocalLookup.com
craig says
Jeff: did he tell you what a wanker is?
Hint – thats where wank comes from!
Michael says
1)TraderRating.com
2)LMFAO.co
3)GirlorBoy.com
Bryan G says
I try to avoid repeating letters. It ruins some otherwise great two word or three word domains. Since iInk is only four letters it’s not that bad.
JamesD says
3 that I really like are;
GoFlyUs.com
GranToro.com
and a recent auction purchase which I’m going to be the end user for;
WebPlots.com
Most of my names are generic product or service names which are great, but pretty sterile in comparison imo.
brian k says
My three best are
strokerecovery.com
stopforeclosure.net
bbguns.net ( i love bb guns lol)
enos says
hmmm…..
tool.com
backs.com
smith.net
I had to include the granddaddy of the surname portfolio, although it is hard to include a .net
Louise says
Recently registered an “i” domain – my first!
My domains aren’t good compared to many here, but I always approached domaining from a developer, and bring value to my domains as I develop them with unique content. Lots of premium domains listed here!
I am in love with iMultiscreen.com! Multi screen and tv Everywhere is taking off!
QRReader.org is also developed and valuable.
EmergingDomains.com is premium.
d Lowe says
1. GoGrab.com
2. Dualcoresmartphones.com
3. 2012allstar.com
Rich says
Easy for me.
Links.com
Now up for auction on Flippa.
Robert G. says
NannyState.com (developed, keyword mentioned on Twitter all day long)
HNV.com (Hot New/News/Nude Videos)
Disguise.me (costume or proxy site????)
qalalar says
An IDN: АуаРайы.com (Ауа Райы is Kazakh for “weather”). Ranks number one for that phrase on Google. Not as valuable as “weather” in English or Russian, but those were already taken.
Gus says
animation.net (I never really worked out what to do with this one)
AustralianGovernmentBonds.com (sure it’s 3 words, but ranks high with Google and makes good adsense money)
and then some ccTLDs on the same keyword theme: tablets.com.au .jp and .sg, and tablet.mx
Steve says
iDocks.com
— those iPods, iPhones & iPads need to recharge somewhere…
Reclosables.com | Resealables.com
— for Ziplock-bag or Tupperware-type products
Stairlift.org
— probably my strongest non .com domain
S.W. says
That’s a great name Rich, best of luck on the auction!
Been noticing an uptick in premium names on Flippa, it appears better.com has reached 75K after about ten days or so.
Doug says
BusinessIntelligence.com/.net/.org
Sunny Gandem says
ChurchNames.com – My flagship site which also contains the listings of my church and christian related domains.
ApplyLoansOnline.com
DomainingSolutions.com
Contrarian says
Glad you didn’t ask for your worst three domains although the list may have been eerily similar
Emerging domains a premium?????
2012allstar? Hmmm guessing 2013 is available if you want to run with this niche
Dollar supplies registered since 2001. If that’s the best you could get in 2001 you misses the boat
Anyways some really lousy best domains here
Sad
Adam says
Is Elliot Silver guest-blogging 😉
@contrarian what you got ?
Rob says
My 3 Favorites Domains are the following (with some explanations)
1) Tortillas.com
(Tortillas have surpassed surpassed bagels and muffins to come only second in place to sliced bread in the “packaged bread” category in the U.S. and are becoming more and more popular around the world!)
2) DinosaurFossils.com
(Dinosaur Fossils have and will continue to be a fascination for kids, adults and scientists alike!)
3) CustomSurfboards.com
(I was born and raised in SoCal and surfed during part of my teens and early 20’s and continue to find it an very unique and exiting sport – even though I don’t take the time to go out in the water any more and brave nature’s beautiful and sometimes dangerous waves!)
Thanks for letting me share!
A. Mitchell says
SurroundedByIdiots.mobi
Only three words, just like some of the winners above. Catchy too. Priced at only $885,000.
Kimberlee says
I like this domain:
ILikeThisDomain.com
🙂