Appraisal Niche a Hot Domain Target

December 13, 2009 by  
Filed under Domain Aftermarket, Domain News

How many domain shopping days do you have before Christmas? Santa could bring a new niche your way. When domainers check their drop lists and check them twice, appraisal names are hot now. The domain aftermarket and new country code TLD development can make a generic name in a foreign tongue a golden opportunity.

Many successful domainers have debated the relative value of appraisal sites and appraisal engines to qualify bidding and list prices for domain names. Could there be appraisal domain gold in your portfolio?

But Estibot.com and Alexa.com are only some of the appraisal name sites that domainers regularly tap to quantify rankings and traffics. With a bevy of new country code sublevel TLD’s happening, a niche exists to tap foreign language and foreign character domains and appraisal traffic for fledgling domainers in other languages and English language appraisal clients looking for new resources.

Foreign Generics Ramping Up

Generic domain name markets in the emerging country codes for newly available geo domains have been spiking in recent weeks. Hot and happening is the .Mx (Mexico) domain market. Generic cognates between Spanish and English with the .Mx tld have been actively trading. Newly minted .Mx owners have been seeking out generic cognate owners of the same names in other country codes as well as the dot com, dot net, and dot org markets. Connecting owners of generic buyers can cement a domain investment and offer a package to potential buyer down the line.