I own the domain name ilose.com (I Lose.com). I want to have a site developed to take advantage of this name, using adsense to generate revenue. What do you think would have more potential: - A weight loss site - A gambling site - Poker site - Investing / day trading site I sure wish I had "I win.com" for the gambling and investing sites but if I gear it toward "Are you losing? Follow us!" theme, it should be OK. I have pretty good knowledge of gambling, poker and investing, but I think that weight loss could be bigger (no pun intended ) even though it's not something I know a lot about. That's the problem. I'm not sure I could provide as much content on weightloss. Anyway, what say you? Any other suggestions or feedback is appreciated. Thanks!
I'd say with weight loss because it's a positive thing for people with weight problems. You would have a negative domain if you used it for stocks/gambling because people would go there thinking they are losing, not winning -- like they want to. People _do_ want to lose weight though, so it would be positive for them.
Yea I don't think I am going to visit a site where I am gambling and the site is named ILose.com. It just doesn't make me feel to safe. My vote is the weight loss theme.
I agree with everyone else. The domain name has a negative sound. To attract people it needs to be used in a positive way. Thats will not be the case with anything involving money or competitive enterprises. But, it is a positive for weight.
I'm starting to sense that I should go with a weightloss site. I have this gift to be able to read people. Helps in poker too. Thumbs up to the people who voted for poker and investing. I was leaning that way myself. Looks like we were out voted. Thanks for everyone's input! Any other opinions and suggestions are still appreciated. Now, does anybody know anything about weightloss?
I would go for weight loss as well, or anything else you can think of where it is "good to lose". Weight loss is probably a good one if you are looking at earnings from Adsense as there are quite a few health related sites that advertise with Adwords so there should be plenty of ads related for your content.
Definitely go with weight loss. There's a huge potential for branding with that domain name. If you provide high quality content and you have your traffic up and running you can run a weight-loss challenge etc. It has a lot of potential.
Weight loss. I thought that right when I saw the name. The people will lose weight, but will gain more money when they only have to buy 1 or 2 plane tickets instead of all three.
I just had another (vague) idea. You could probably set-up a sub-domain and create a totally different site with a totally different concept ..... Something like: will.ilose.com can.ilose.com Just an idea ....
You need to set yourself out from the crowd. Make it into a site that has a special set of games where people compete to do the worst possible. An example game would be who could make the least amount of free throws in a basketball game. Or maybe you could have it be a site where people write in to tell about their failures and people can rate the submissions on how much that person got owned. Then it could be a competition to see who is the biggest loser on ilose. If you're a good writer, this domain name would be a perfect platform to write a satirical blog of a fictional character (or maybe not) that can't get a break in life.
Thanks folks. Good ideas. And Alex, you must be referring to that Beatles song, "She needs two tickets to ride."
I really agree with schmeg007. That sounds like a neat idea to me. People love to complain, why not give them a place to do it... You could get a script similar to a confession scipt that allows people to post a "failure" story. Then other people can rate it out of 5, and leave comments. :S Sounds like a cool idea to me...
Haha yeah, schmeg007's idea is very cool. Other than that, weight-loss, because as others said it's the only one (of your options) where losing is positive.