Well, I just registered www.your-name.us for the purpose of selling for a profit probly.. Do you guys think it will sell for any type of profit in.. say a year maybe?

Note to MODs: This isn't meant to be advertising, I am not planning on selling the domain for some time.

Yeah I think you would be able to flog that off for more, Im in a process of building a time machine to buy microsoft of bill gates and make him run it, and buy www.business.com when the internet starts

This would have been a good poll.

Option 1: No

Option 2: Not ever

Option 3: I should have bought 2 .com domains instead

Just my opinion of course.


Lats...

i cant see very much value in the name to be honest.

Oh yes,
Great domain name. Don't sell it. It will be more valuble if you hold onto a name like that until the outlook on domain names changes in a few years. Right now, people are so used to the .com/net/org thing that they won't look for anything else. But the internet is far from a static thing. Once the new domains take off (and we know they will) then you will have a greater oppertunity to make some real money with it.

There's a dash in the domain name. That reduces its value quite a bit.

damn - I should have added:

Option 2.5 I should not have bought a domain with a dash


Lats...

i dont see what the big hang up is with dashes in a domain name.

Give me the choice of a catchy easy to remember nice sounding short .com domain name or a .com domain name which is a little bit longer seperated by a dash and with a highly searched for keywords and I would take the domain name with the dash anyday.

I dont have a massive budget that I can afford radio advertising, that a dash would be a major problem. Most of my traffic comes from search engines, and a dash does not hinder your search engine ranking and in some search engines is said to actually help your ranking.

As an example, if you had the domain look-out.com and it was being discussed on a forum somewhere, or even on a bus, there is more chance than someone will remember it as lookout.com, rather than the one with the dash.

It's been talked about often in other circles, and quite frankly the dash is one of the many mistakes the governing bodies have made.

Just my opinion, of course.


Lats...

Not a premium value domain name. The dash does lower its potential value significantly. However, sort of an intriguing domain name. Strangely, yourname.com has never been developed.

So, as to value.

Intrinsic domain name value of your-name.us - none above what you paid for it. I would not expect you to hold it and make a significant profit.

Developed value however might exist for someone who wanted to start a community or e-mail service something in the same direction as the .name tld. However, as it isn't a tld, would still have less value.

Just my opinion. However, I average buying around 5 names per week and the most I have ever paid is $50 with an average of under $20 and I would, frankly, if I saw the your-name.us for sale not purchase it even for the registration fee.

i agree, that a domain name without the dash is definitely preferable, but if i see a domain name with highly searched for keywords that does have a dash, i wouldnt let the dash put me off purchasing and using it.

When I run terms via google, there are many domains with dashes that get top listings, so I would not look upon them as a mistake.

Originally posted by hostjet
When I run terms via google, there are many domains with dashes that get top listings, so I would not look upon them as a mistake. Keep in mind when making that kind of judgement that the fact that someone registered and developed a domain name encompassing keywords probably means that they are putting some effort into search engine optimization beyond that one step. So good placement might not be primarily attributable to the domain name; but instead to any number of on- or off-page elements.

By no means is a hypenated name a "mistake" from a seo standpoint (nothing about it will hurt your rankings), but neither is it a free ticket to good placement.

The domain name buying and selling market is pretty dead right now.

There is a thriving market for .com, .net and .org domain names with traffic, no matter if they have hyphens or numbers.

Thanks for all the opinions, except you Lats ;). Even if it's not worth it, at least I'm patriotic :).