Domain name

[Hussulo]

Well a little while ago I bought the domain name www.coins.gb.com . Why I don't know, but it’s quite catchy and would make a good domain name for another British coin forum or even for a British coin dealer. Anyway I might try and sell it (if the right offer comes along). Maybe even advertise it for sale in Coin News. Or then again I might develop it? A little bit unsure at the moment.

[Chris Perkins]

It's not a bad name, but probably wouldn't be of huge value. Most people that want to sell 'naked' domain names (i.e. without a website running from them) always tend to want far too much for them!

It would have more of a value if an established website was already running. And how does it work with non top level domains? I mean, the domain name here is gb.com and coins.gb.com is a sub domain is it not? It must have at one stage been sold be the people that own gb.com.

Any buyer would need to consider the level of importance that google would give to a website containing the word 'coins' that wasn't a sub domain, like somecoins.com in comparison to a domain name containing a '.'. I'm not sure how they rank those.

Rotographic.com wasn't cheap, but it was something I needed and I got about 40% off the owners initial asking price.

[Hussulo]

It's not a bad name, but probably wouldn't be of huge value. Most people that want to sell 'naked' domain names (i.e. without a website running from them) always tend to want far too much for them!

It would have more of a value if an established website was already running. And how does it work with non top level domains? I mean, the domain name here is gb.com and coins.gb.com is a sub domain is it not? It must have at one stage been sold be the people that own gb.com.

Any buyer would need to consider the level of importance that google would give to a website containing the word 'coins' that wasn't a sub domain, like somecoins.com in comparison to a domain name containing a '.'. I'm not sure how they rank those.

Rotographic.com wasn't cheap, but it was something I needed and I got about 40% off the owners initial asking price.

I agree Chris. All the other coins.com, co.uk etc.. were taken already, and this one being .gb.com ties in with the type of coins I'm interested in. I don't know much about Google search engines etc.., and it might be something to look into. As for making money from it I'm not sure I ever will but it didn't cost me much so I haven't lost much. I would like to play around with it and maybe learn about designing websites etc. One day eventually I may use it but at the moment my knowledge on coins is scarce and I fear I have got years ahead of me before I could one day start off a forum or maybe even sell coins through my website.

As for Rotographic.com was that already up and running. Was someone else using it? or did they buy it to try and sell it to you at a profit?

[Chris Perkins]

Rotographic.com was once owned by a French printing company. All attempts at communication with them failed and I gave up for a while. A year or 2 later I noticed it was registered to a Russian domain company, so I contacted them and they offered it to me. They bought it at an auction of expiring/ed domain names, so it wasn't like they had me in mind.

I used escrow.com to make the payment (very important because I wouldn't trust a Russian as far as I could walk across Russia).