Appraising Speculative Domains

[DanSEO]

So I have halflife-3.com and sidekick2008.net ("Sidekick 2008" is the name of the new sidekick which will be released on July 30th), about how much could I get for these types of domains? Is speculating with domains a good business?

 

[-Matt-]

Not worth much more than reg price.

.net, dash, numbers.

You could probably get more out of them by developing them and targeting their keywords.

 

[DanSEO]

Not worth much more than reg price.

.net, dash, numbers.

You could probably get more out of them by developing them and targeting their keywords.

Even if the numbers are directly related to the product?

 

[-Matt-]

Even if the numbers are directly related to the product?

IMO - yes.

But I'd like to hear what others think. Personally, unless I'm using the domains for SEO sites, I avoid hyphens, numbers, and non-.com tlds.

 

[DanSEO]

IMO - yes.

But I'd like to hear what others think. Personally, unless I'm using the domains for SEO sites, I avoid hyphens, numbers, and non-.com tlds.

Same here, I usually won't register those with dashes or numbers. (or even .net, unless particularly enticing) But these seemed like acceptable cases.

 

[Dullspace]

regfee minus the cost of 2 ACPA defense.

 

[DanSEO]

regfee minus the cost of 2 ACPA defense.

AFAIK that doesn't apply as long as my intent isn't to sell the domain back to the trademark holder.

 

[Dullspace]

AFAIK that doesn't apply as long as my intent isn't to sell the domain back to the trademark holder.

That's not true at all. You don't even need the domains to resolve to an IP address to lose an ACPA.

 

[DanSEO]

That's not true at all. You don't even need the domains to resolve to an IP address to lose an ACPA.

"sidekick" and "halflife" are pretty generic names, a case could be made that they aren't even related. IGN.com owns halflife2.com, and redirects to one of their websites and I have yet to hear of Valve taking their domain down.

Valve tends to buy half-life#.com, if they really cared for the others they would have registered them by now IMO

 

[Dullspace]

"sidekick" and "halflife" are pretty generic names, a case could be made that they aren't even related. IGN.com owns halflife2.com, and redirects to one of their websites and I have yet to hear of Valve taking their domain down.

Valve tends to buy half-life#.com, if they really cared for the others they would have registered them by now IMO

You're right. You know a lot more about this than me, sorry.

 

[nachoninja]

those domains are dogshit

 

[DanSEO]

I just returned sidekick2008.net, I would rather not have to deal with T-Mobile. (or any company's legal department) I'm going to ask Valve if they have any problems with domains with the name of one of their games in it just to be safe, if it is I'll probably develop it and hold it for a few years and sell it when the game is official announced.

@nachoninja: You would usually get a flaming in return from me for that comment, but that dog in your avatar is too fucking cute.