How much would or have you pay for a domain name?

[Marcus_Miller]

Ha, for sure! Good domains are like gold dust in some instances and I would pay 5x what they are asking.

[whitbycottages]

Marcus I don't want to be picky but if I decide to go with your suggestion could I have to domain name without the hyphens?www.Iwantedwhitbyjetbutthiswasallthatasleft.com might not be as readable but it would be better for my SEO wouldn't it?Anywhere nice little story and I'm glad you got the domain name you wanted eventually, I bet they thought it was going to  be a bowler hat retailer the eventually slapped the cash down

[whitbycottages]

I have done, it's actually now functioning the domain is live and there will be a website there later this week thanks for the encouragement

[whitbycottages]

That's what I find slightly hard to understand, there are a reasonable number of
online retailers with good levels of stock, like this one which has a bricks
and mortar shop in a prime location in town where they pay around £1000 a month just for the rent, this is their website http://www.whitbyjetjewellery.net/ So why don't they jump at the chance of getting the exact match domain? Do you think it's purely down to lack of knowledge by their SEO person! I realise some of them won’t actually invested much in their online marketing but surely some of them have. Easier to understand if the domain retailer had beenasking  $5,000 for the domain, but like you pointed out at $300 it was peanuts.

[whitbycottages]

I didn't know about the pay per click relevance of having the exact domain name match to the product being sold but I can see how that could be very important if you are heavily into Google ad words, but for a smaller company it wont be of great benefit becouse I'm not intending of spending much in that direction, but thanks for the information.

[YourDegree]

You should probably point out-- facebook did NOT pay 100 million just for face.com--  facebook has been using face.com's facial recognition software for ages.  They purchased the entire company for 100mm.

[RyanKent]

Good point! You caught me scanning the headlines.

[GYMSN]

$550k and google is not treating it well at all...damn.

[sunriseb]

Years ago I paid $1500 for keyword rich, two-word.com and it has worked out really well.

However, if I had it to do over again I wouldn't.  Now I think a unique, brandable domain name with one of the keywords in it for $10 is a better choice.

example:
2-word keyphrase:  abcde-efghij.com
unique/brandable: abcdeworld.com

Regards,
Sam

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