Here is the third in the domainer stereotypes series. Background: I was reading an article about stereotypes and how we love to categorize people and put them in boxes. I realized I hadn’t seen anyone create domainer stereotypes though we all know they exist. I thought I would put together a series of posts with a specific domainer stereotype in each one.
The Hypenator
You-keyword-know-keyword-who-keyword-you-keyword-are.com
His prowess is well known in the Domaining universe.
He boldly places a hyphen where no hyphen has gone before.
Analysis, Mr. Spock.
It’s a domain name, Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it
there’s Hyphens on the starboard bow, starboard bow, Jim.
Bridge to engine room, hyphen-factor-9.
Och, if I give it any more she’ll blow, Cap’n!
Och, #!*& Jimmy.
Selected words borrowed from Star Trekin by The Firm
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“how we love to categorize people and put
them in boxes.”
You mean like “dead people”?
“It’s a domain name, Jim, but not as we know it,
not as we know it
there’s Hyphens on the starboard bow, starboard
bow, Jim.
Bridge to engine room, hyphen-factor-9.”
Barry,
Please go back to rapping.
lol thanks Patrick! I guess i will just have to go back to making money instead of frightening away the readers
The more serious me.
Barry,
Would this be a Domainer stereotype?
The Pipe Dreamer
You know the one with a ridiculous domain name
and wants to sell it for $1,200,000 and thinks
he’s offering you a bargain.
I just found a good example of a Pipe Dreamer
on eBay.
All domains are same Seller.
Get out your checkbook!
Todayable .com
Buy It Now $750,000
(I wonder if Tomorrowable .com is available)
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MIFOC .com
Buy It Now $175,000
Seller says: “Fiber Optic Telecom SEX TLD Domain
for Sale”
(???????????)
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WashingtonDCDistrictHandguns .com
Buy It Now $25,000
(Yep, they have a lot of handguns in DC)
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NiceAndKozy .com
Buy It Now $15,000
Seller says: “Clothing Food TLD Domain”
(I do like to eat the clothing I’m wearing
but only when I spill food on it…which is
most of the time.
It makes me feel Cozy…I mean Kozy.)
——-
SeeThroughs .com
Buy It Now $25,000
(What I like to see hot,sexy babes wearing!)
—–
Bankrupcy .com
Buy It Now $275,000
(This is a bargain! It would cost a lot more
if it had the “t”.)
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TodosMedios .com
Buy It Now $225,000
(Todos Loco!)
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RunDude .com
Buy It Now $3,250,000
(Yes, run away from this domain as fast as
you can!)
——
Wan2Tlk .com
Buy It Now $1,750,000
Seller says domain means: Want to talk.
(What a Gr8 domain…NOT!)
——-
uTubecash .com
Buy It Now $75,000
(A bargain! Google paid $1.65 Billion
for YouTube .com
I’m sure the utube .com folk won’t mind the
trademark infringement.)
——-
iBuy4Closures .com
Buy It Now $375,000
(You won’t be able to if you keep buying
crappy domains.)
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3DFreeCreditReport .com
Buy It Now $175,000
(Only $175,000 for my FREE credit report
in 3D. How much is the FREE 2D version?)
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Patrick,
Here is a good domain ??
iReport.com Sold for $750,000 Pipe Dream
There is a saying in Hollywood:
Nobody Knows Anything
I guess it all depends on who your market is…
The situation with IReport.com is that CNN took an interest as a way to brand a site where user generated stories meets CNN reporter generated stories.The seller was also Rick Schwartz which carries some weight.I agree with Rick that this was not another “I” domain because it fitted perfectly with the intended use and was memorable.
Can we anticipate this? Not really but with a diversity of high quality domains, it is bound to happen and here is where Rick benefits.
“Here is a good domain ??
iReport.com Sold for $750,000 Pipe Dream”
Todd,
There is a world of difference between the
iReport .com sale and the domains I listed above.
There is a world of difference between Rick
and that eBay seller.
The difference is Rick did not put his domain
on eBay for $750,000 hoping someone will bite.
CNN came to him. He didn’t go to them.
Seller advantage!
Plus iReport .com is a much better domain than
those I listed above IMHO.
I wouldn’t have paid $750,000 for it though and
in all likelihood neither would you.
I don’t know Rick personally but from what I
can gather he is not in a position where he
has to sell any of his domains.
I’ll bet if you or I had owned iReport .com,
CNN would have paid a whole lot less than
$750,000.
Am I wrong?
From an inhouse seo’s perspective(it’s me), I would say 1 to 2 hyphens is ok just to disambiguate the domain name like pen-island.com but more than that, it’s spammy looking.
If you’ll invest in such domain names, then prepare to just pay the regfees but if I where you, you will just let it drop.
Just my two cents
Ismael,
Agree that more than one hyphen in a domain name seems spammy because they are used to string keywords together and content is often scraped with ads.
You often lose traffic to the non-hyphenated version also.
There are legitimate uses but it should be approached carefully.