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Originally Posted by jay23
Is type ins worth that much these days ? i was working at sex.com after it got bought few years ago. Those days domain names were big. I need to go to the TRAFFIC conference that I have not been to in few years to understand the current market.
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Currrent typins are just a small fraction of a domain names worth. Beside other obvious factors (length, untapped SE searches etc.), then a good domain name has built-in niche leader/authority (ex. what looks/sound more trustworthy? Livecams.com or 247livecams.com), which makes the traffic more potent?
The name should also be able to make the jump from solely inhouse/affiliate marketing to multiple communities marketing - this means someone else beside the domain owner can get some value (social currency) from spreading the name - meaning the name has to be self-explanatory, sound natural as a noun (ex. "check out live cams dot com" vs. "check out 247 live cams dot com), and if its a real killer domain, then it also has verb use, so the name can be worked into the language/slang itself (ex. the amount of free branding Google.com is getting from all the people that "googles for things on the internet" is why you donīt see alot of google ads on TV - they donīt need to, they have becomed the verb for "searching" on the internet).
Livecams.com has alot of the above criterias - only thing missing is the built-in verb usage, but only a handfull of domains comes with existing or latent verb use (actual I can only think of a few domain names in the cam sex industry that has existing or latent verb use
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