Mashable.com just published a post entitled “18 tools for picking the perfect domain”
“Choosing a domain name for your product, service or business can be one of the most challenging steps in establishing your online identity. While it’s important to choose your name wisely, it can be difficult to craft a creative name that describes the essence of your business.”
“Your name needs to be snappy, memorable and successfully communicate something about your business, and because so many top-level domains (TLDs) are already taken, it’s no easy feat.”
Unfortunately one tool that Mashable doesn’t discuss at all in its article is buying an already registered domain names.
The article is all about finding unregistered domain names and doesn’t even consider that 50% of all aftermarket sales on Sedo.com for example are $500 or less.
As we know there are other aftermarket houses like Aftermarket.com, Godaddy.com, Domainnamesales.com, DomainMarket.com and our own MostWantedDomains.com to name a few, where good domains can be acquired for as low as three figures and certainly four figures rather than choose an unregistered domain.
I often use Domai.nr but some times it isn’t accurate
50% of aftermarket SALES on Sedo are for less than $500, but often times the asking prices are off-putting to potential buyers. A lot of domaineers are fantasists who would rather sit on a domain name for a decade or more than sell it for a realistic price. If you had a neighbor trying to sell his house for five million dollars for the past several years, in a neighborhood where houses are selling for less than one tenth of that, you would think he was nuts.