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Comment on Watch Your Research: How Misinformation Can Get Spread! by Stephen Douglas

Stephen Douglas — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:22:27 +0000

Hi, I think you’re Steve Jones, as stated in your ABOUT link. Hi Steve! This is Stephen.

I wanted to make a comment about providing any information about domain/keyword/site “popularity” based on analysis of Quantcast and/or Alexa – or actually any “public/private” traffic reporting services. All of them are skewed strangely, and none of them can really provide the true facts they portend to do.

Let me try and make this point stick:

If you find a domain you like, and want to know if its site is performing, there’s no way of knowing the results are based on true visitors, such as uniques and comebacks. The domain doesn’t specifically take “all the credit” for the website’s performance, unless the site is a landing PPC page. Even then, it doesn’t take into consideration all the variables of “templinks”, “spammed backlinks”, “SEO keyword spamming” or none of the above. Alexa and Quantcast just cannot provide anyone with realistic evaluations of a domain.

The only thing that can provide you with straightforward discussion and assessment of a domain’s value is a human being that has an understanding of the language, along with social/consumer and business/tech trends, either already established through common use, or expected maturity of the trend.

In other words, experience and instinct from a human can only determine the value of a domain. I never use Alexa (used to about four years ago), and tried Quantcast but saw errors and omissions.

About the extension .org — It is absolutely the second most valuable domain extension, much more valuable than the .net, for one simple reason based on common sense marketing analysis:

.ORG domains are bought and promoted by all the major/minor non-profit organizations, and those .org domains are hoisted into the limelight constantly by the power of these organizations by the millions of dollars in advertising EVERY month.

A .net domain name is a mistake for a domainer to buy UNLESS they plan to use heavy marketing techniques to remind their visitors that the .net extension must be “remembered”, no matter how wonderfully natural the domain word/phrase is. For the user, the .org extension is a “product/service” connect naturally especially if they’ve already understood the domain represents a “non-profit” company. That doesn’t have to be true, but it’s what sells the .org

Nice article.
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Comment on .com by Steve

Steve — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:35:17 +0000

Hi Jaime,

Unfortunately I had sold LGMortgage.com about a month or so ago and hadn’t updated this page yet. Sorry about that. Please let me know if you see any other mortgage names that may interest you. Don’t forget to check the .org domains I have for sale as there are a lot of high quality mortgage names in there including Mortgaging.org.

-Steve

Comment on Welcome to the NEW Nametrader domain name blog! by David Lye

David Lye — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:46:17 +0000

Thanks for the info – don’t forget to post about the Australian domain name industry – it’s really starting to take off… Thanks again

Comment on .com by Ken Kaplan

Ken Kaplan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:25:13 +0000

Let’s see what happens. Let me know if you want a link swap also at http://www.inetbrokerage.com
Ken

Comment on .com by Steve

Steve — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:58:54 +0000

Certainly, as long as you want something reasonable for doing so. If you like you can also simply refer them to us and you’ll get a referral fee. Either way is fine – more sales is a good thing however they happen.

-Steve

Comment on .com by Ken Kaplan

Ken Kaplan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:41:53 +0000

Steve,
Nice group of domains for sale here. I have a customer who is deciding on a job.com domain name. So if he decides not to move fwd with buying the domain name I would like to know if we could co broker one of your Job domain names if I can get some interest from him on it.
Thanks

Comment on Why Keyword Tools Beat Domain Tools For Researching Domains by Domain Superstar

Domain Superstar — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I strongly agree with your premise for this post. I also use the Google Adwords Keyword Tool extensively to find keyword domain names. I would also suggest checking out our Type In Traffic Tool which uses real time data from the Google Adwords Keyword Tool to find domain names that match exactly to keywords that get searched in Google. You can check it out for free at http://www.domainsuperstar.com/domain-finder-tools/type-in-traffic-finder

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Comment on Why Keyword Tools Beat Domain Tools For Researching Domains by Available Domain Names

Available Domain Names — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:59:38 +0000

Very useful information here. I've been using Google Adwords tool for the same purpose for awhile. There's also a handy text editor named Textpad that can do the same capitalization shortcuts that you outline here. Available Domain Names’s last blog post..$9 Bargain Keyword Domains at SnapNames.com