Just Bought a New Domain with a Strange Extension!
Good Evening All,
I just bought a new domain name for a new site. The niche is highly competitive but has a huge audience.
I spent hours on Jaaxy today looking for great keywords. I found a 4 word keyword phrase with results of 538,665/91,572/296/75. Not bad!
So I went to NameCheap and found out that a domain name using those keywords was not available with standard extensions; like .com, .org, .net and .info; they were ALL for Sale to highest bidder.
They offered me a domain name with my keyword phrase with the extension (never heard of it) ".rocks" for $8. Kind of cool since my last name is Rock! So I grabbed it!
Just wondering what the WA community thinks about such a "domain extension". Mistake or not? Worth the testing for $8 ... I think.
Cheers All,
Joe
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Well, all I can say is that "Rocks!" :-D I don't really know about the newer extensions. I too just saw the dot rocks extensions today. I was buying a new domain myself. However, dot com, not dot rocks. lol. I wish you great success with it. ~Jeannie
That's very interesting. I'm wondering why others are selling their .com, etc. Is it for the money or the niche not panning out? An $8 experiment is worthwhile to test the waters, in my opinion.
I believe for the money. Yes, an $8 experiment is worthwhile. The keywords get over 1/2 million searches per month...
Good luck with that name extention.
It may work for you.
I personally would not have bought it.
However my last name is not Rock
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Well, knowing is all it...s about!
Thats for your comment Kim!