Wondering About the Knowledge of Domainers?
December 19, 2009 by David
Filed under Domain Development, Domains & Websites, Making Money, Traffic & Revenue, Website & Domain Issues
There are a lot of mysteries with domaining such as how often expired names sell at places like Snapnames for $60 or more but no sale for $20 before expiration at forums, etc.
However, the oddity which really has me wondering about the knowledge many domainers really have is why I keep on running into health and medical related domains available in .org but already reg’d in other extensions which have far less likelihood of traffic vs dot-org?
I can say based on lots of experience the only 2 tld’s which work nicely with health names are .com and .org. In fact, depending on the name .org can sometimes do as well or even better vs .com in health/disease related names. All the others are poor with very rare typeins.
Just this afternoon I was doing research using Google’s Insights For Search and discovered a real nice 3 word health term which seems like it would get both search and typein traffic.
I figured it would be taken in dot-com and dot-org for sure and maybe even other extensions but upon checking was surprised to see it unregistered in .org but taken in .com .net .biz .info .us and even .eu so I quickly registered the dot-org.
Why is it not better known that dot-org works so well in the health, wellness and disease category? Just one of life’s many mysteries I guess.
David – Good point you make about .org. I am all for domains being a good fit to the extension, and see this as increasingly important as the internet becomes more congested. I agree that health related keywords blend well with the .org web address. .org and .info are probably two of the best for health and medical oriented words/phrases.