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Old 05-02-2007, 10:37 PM
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I'm considering picking up a couple city name related website names. I've noticed that there is a huge variety of what people use in the website name, from basic "<city>homes.com" to "<city>homevalues.com" or ones with "buy" or "realty" of course.

But my question is, if you could have had ANY real estate related domain name for your city, what do you think be the top picks?

ex. cincinnati __________ .com

Do you find value in separating out <city>condos, <city>rentals, etc?

Or if you wouldn't use the city name, though I'm not sure why not, i'd be curious to hear that to.

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Old 05-07-2007, 12:35 PM
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any feedback is appreciated.

also what about <city>homesforsale.com or homesforsalein<city>.com?
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Default Re: Your opinion: best website name

If I could have any domain name for my city it would be atlantarealestate.com.

The guy who owns it wants $500,000 for it!

You need to either have something catchy, descriptive or KW relevant. A combination of the three would work best for me!
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Default Re: Your opinion: best website name

it would be nice to have a website for every metropolitan city, with <city>realestate
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If I could have any domain name for my city it would be atlantarealestate.com.

The guy who owns it wants $500,000 for it!
Wow $500,000 that's quite a few homes to sell to pay off that bill. I hardly think it is worth anywhere near that. Overpricing your commodity thinking it is worth more than it is, that never happens in our business thank goodness
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...Overpricing your commodity thinking it is worth more than it is, that never happens in our business thank goodness
Too funny, thanks!
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It needs to be a factor of times earnings, like 5 times max for something really great. How much does that website name (By itself) make for the owner?
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Old 05-09-2007, 07:14 PM
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Default Re: Your opinion: best website name

why is 500k overpriced... my website gets over 2.5 M hits a month... and makes our company all of its money from that site... so if you do it as a business... and as a cash flow... it might make perfect sense!? dont you think? A big City site might be worth more... I know the guys who own Galveston.com make millions a year... how much is that sitre worth?
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Old 05-09-2007, 09:33 PM
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To get us back on the original topic....

Obviously <city>realestate.com is everyone's top choice..

What would be your 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc choices for a website name?
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