Keukens.com Sold for $13,000. What does “Keukens” mean?

The domain, Keukens.com was sold for five figure range at $13,000. The domain was sold at Sedo domain marketplace and I was thinking why the domain was sold at this price. I thought it might have got some meaning in other language and I looked at some stats.

The keyword “Keukens” appeared around nearly 2 million times in Google results and the top website which appeared for the keyword was Keukens.nl . I then think it has some meaning in Dutch (Netherland) language. When I searched for the meaning of the keyword “Keukens” in Dutch language, I found out that it had the meaning of “kitchens” in English.

Now I know why it goes for low five figure range.

Translation Pages Hot

The big news in domain development these days is converting active native language pages to another language for a given country code or demographic. Witness a certain expert domainer branching out into translation services for exiting websites to coordinate dual language site releases.  This new service offered by WhiteBark Innovations for website translations can serve up those country code websites domainers are now looking to build.

Appraisal Niche a Hot Domain Target

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.