.BIZ domains, are they popular?

Here's one of my sites - www.narutowallpaper.biz, not sure exactly what you meant by power project but it's the best example I have. It gets 15,000 uniques per day.

 

This is the picture that I see. Poorly indexed by search engines, low content, relatively new website, I'd also estimate low traffic. Definitely not within the frames of what I'd consider a "power project", sorry.

Question: it seems to be about wallpapers. Why "biz"?

 

Well I have 2 .BIZ domains that are fitting for their singular word names, and I'm selling them to raise a little bit of cash (reluctantly).

If you're a small tidy company offline, I do not see what is so bad about .BIZ.

In fact, it is nice for small companies! This is the arena I see its potential, but unfortunately, there was a cheap sale a few years ago, and many folks regged .BIZ to put up spammy sites.

The same thing is happening to .INFO today. But .BIZ is no longer cheap. Just look at their price today.

Many companies still do not know of .BIZ because it's growth was curtailed.

If you're a small stationary shop, what could be better than having an online name like Stationary.biz? Not that I think any one of you can even obtain such a name, cos I'm sure this name is more than a few hundred bucks..... Just using a good example for heavens sake, I'm NOT the owner of this name....

If you want to create a proper company online storefront but cannot afford a .COM, getting a single word .BIZ for your business is cool. And right now, there are many generic .BIZ domains selling for a few hundred apiece. You simply cannot get such deals with .com/net/org/

Company storefronts using .COM also suffer from poor indexing or ranking by Google. All shopping malls suffer from this, regardless of extension. Faced between buying a generic word and a 3-4 word .com, which would you choose? I'd go for the .BIZ.

 

.biz Are fine, alot of people use.

 

And you ignore the underlying reasons why they sell so cheap. No recognition, traffic bleed, costs extra (tangible or intangible) to advertise, i would hazard a guess that lesser know extensions have trust issues (i see stationary.com/net/org and there is an immediate trust that the site is probably more legit than if i saw stationary.biz or stationary.bz or any lesser know gTLD or ccTLD). If they were really just as good, they would sell for the same price, that's the hard truth.

Also, for a small company with no online presence it would make far more sense to me to just name it what my store was called and even append the location and use a .com. JohnDoeStationary.com or CityStationary.com. So many much more sticky available .coms for the local businesses, why buy .biz?

 

And you're backing this statement up with "alot of examples", please. My feeling is that kohashi's point over the trust matter in regards to non-generic extensions is a good one. A .biz website will have to make much harder to get customers. For adsense-related content websites there's not reason in even comparing the extensions as they are all equally treated by the search engines so if you're up for selling ads then it's fine. But if you wish to build a brand out of an online name, then imagine the least scenario of having your .biz domain name printed on your visit card. Hard to make it sound "great".

 

I don't see what you nay sayers are talking about. Nobody is saying that .biz and .com have the same value.

However I do not see why .biz should not be placed on a business card. To be honest, the website that I started this thread about sounds better with .biz than with .com.

.com has become a generic ending, investNow.biz makes you want to invest right away.

 

no, it doesn't. it makes me think of a spam or scam site or a get rich quick tv ad at 4am right after a girls gone wild commercial.

 

Obviously you are not my target market then. After watching all those girls gone wild videos you might not be in the mood for investing.

Have you ever visited the .com million dollar domains? They are all in parking, full of useless "directories" of advertisers, often with little connection to the domain subject. Places like invest.com or investment.com are completely useless to an investor. The are run by scamers.

.biz has a very fast, "I mean business", feel to it. Fits perfectly with investNow.
Lots of people love www.investNow.biz. I will let you know what it sells for.

 

Seller's price expectation: 10,000 EUR. Are you the owner?

 

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yes he is.


who are you trying to justify this to? us or yourself? if it really was worth what you seem to think it was you should have offers crawling all over you. I think the owners of invest.com and investment.com would be very unhappy with you calling them scammers, I don't believe they fall under that category. You have a nearly identical parking page to invest.com on goodinvestments.info. The difference, you probably make nothing, while they are probably making a hefty sum each day. I am not in the mood for crap investments anytime, girls gone wild or not. Sorry, if you want a happy thread full of flowery language praising a crap extension then you shouldn't ask a question you can't handle the answer to.

 

I am selling this for the owner: Me of course. I have several offers over 15,000$.

Thank you everyone for your comments.

My mistake to debate at length with a few negative people, I asked one question, so answer once and express your opinion, no need to pour your negativity here, bye bye kohoshi.

 

Yes that is me. I have had it only for a week or so (the day I started this thread). However I have bought several other domains after that and I might not have time to develop everything.

 

I've run .biz by various non-webmasters and they all turn up their nose. To them, it's .com or nothing. But people will always blindly click on the top search engine result - so they've still got that going for them.

 

$xx.. .biz are almost down there with .info ...I wouldn't recommend buying anymore of those..

 

lol!!!!! ahahahahahahaaa

 

and they asked you for an appraisal too. if you refused a 15k offer for either of those .biz names, that was an incredible mistake. That would have been one of the largest (if not the largest) .biz sales ever, and for a crap domain no less.

Sport biz $14,643 Nov 07 Sedo Auction 1 5 N N http://Sport.biz Sedo
Loan biz $11,350 May 08 NameJet 1 4 N N http://Loan.biz DNJournal
Proxy biz $9,027 May 08 SnapNames 1 5 N N http://Proxy.biz DNJournal
Washington biz $3,500 Feb 08 Moniker/Traffic 1 10 N N http://Washington.biz Moniker
Widgets biz $3,500 Nov 07 Sedo 1 7 N N http://Widgets.biz DNJournal
SAF biz $3,160 Apr 08 Sedo 1 3 N N http://SAF.biz DNJournal
Binoculars biz $2,750 Nov 07 Sedo 1 10 N N http://Binoculars.biz DNJournal
Events biz $2,701 May 08 NameJet 1 6 N N http://Events.biz DNJournal
Parfum biz $2,684 Feb 08 Sedo 1 6 N N http://Parfum.biz Sedo
Lawyers biz $2,500 Feb 08 Moniker/Traffic 1 7 N N http://Lawyers.biz Moniker
Storage biz $2,500 Dec 07 Sedo 1 7 N N http://Storage.biz Sedo
SantaFe biz $2,400 Apr 08 Sedo 2 7 N N http://SantaFe.biz Sedo
PetShop biz $2,000 Jan 08 Sedo Auction 2 7 N N http://PetShop.biz Sedo
DMV biz $2,000 Dec 07 Sedo Auction 1 3 N N http://DMV.biz Sedo
Bangladesh biz $1,914 Apr 08 Sedo 1 10 N N http://Bangladesh.biz Sedo
Buzzer biz $1,902 Mar 08 Sedo Auction 1 6 N N http://Buzzer.biz Sedo
Forestry biz $1,600 Feb 08 Afternic 1 8 N N http://Forestry.biz Afternic
Woods biz $1,600 Dec 07 Sedo Auction 1 5 N N http://Woods.biz Sedo
Motor biz $1,554 Jun 08 Pool 1 5 N N http://Motor.biz DNJournal
Emlak biz $1,500 May 08 NameJet 1 5 N N http://Emlak.biz DNJournal

 

Domain names are not commodities. When you create a domain name you have to use your imagination to inspire people. A person's name is not just a group of letters. A good domain is not just a name from the dictionary. The most famous domains are random words that captured peoples' imagination: Amazon, AltaVista, Yahoo, Google, etc. Does anyone ever visit news.com, or websites.com, or whatever? No, nobody does.

 

I have one also....
www.jewellery4u.biz

 

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/news.com alexa ranking of 125 suggests a few people go to news.com... only a few.

You have to inspire people? Those meaningless words became meaningful on the backs of millions of dollars in advertising and providing incredible and unique services. You could do that for any domain in existence, like de.icio.us is a good example of a terrible domain becoming extremely popular. .BIZ sucks as a TLD, it's pretty much the worst performing gTLD in existence (that's open registrations) and you just don't seem able to accept it.

Domain value is inherent, not created. If you're considering created value, it's the content, the goodwill, the organization behind it that are of value. Without google naming itself google, google.com would be a worthless domain.