It is bad to have the term "cheap" in domain names? Will it affect the branding? Especially if I want to sell it later.
It depends. If it's cheapdiamonds.com then it would be make me raise my eyebrow. If it's cheaptickets.com then no. It really depends on the service or good you stick 'cheap' in front of. Skinny
Oops, haa haa.. I am using namecheap for my domain names and I wasn't actually attracted because of the pricing but what they had to offer. Yeah, I would avoid cheap because it usually tends to lower one standard by several notches.
It would really depend on what you're offering. As mentioned above, "cheap tickets" is more than appropriate.
To tell the truth, it's that "cheap" that keeps me away from taking a closer look at namecheap.com. That may be just how I feal about domain names that use "discount" "low" and "cheap" kind of keywords to attract customers.
At that point of time, I did not really had much of a choice. I was using GoDaddy before until I found out they decided they did not want to deal with anyone from my country Singapore so I had to move to somewhere else fast. At that stage, I only know Internic, Enom, Namecheap, Registerfly and Domainsite. Well, Internic and Enom was a little above my league, Registerfly (well what can I say? ;P ) . Domainsite was a little too complicating for me to use. Namecheap at that time seems like a great deal, I just looked past the name.
See, because I own over 300 domain names and none of them are with them, for that sole reason they should have probably predicted that their "cheap" marketing strategy may not work for all. I would never use "cheap" as part of a brand myself, again not to be blamed.
Cheap is a popular word and fit the right category as Skinny said Cheap is the next query after "free"