You all have some of the best assets available on the net and lets all hope it never comes to the point, which happend in the German country code .de TLD. The .de TLD ruled by “Denic” and by German law decided that city names belong to the city and on every name dispute the original owner had to transfer the name to the City (Government).

I hate to see this might even be happening one day to the GEO .com which prevents me from investing in these names at the moment. For many GEO owners this might not be in there consideration. But it as already happend once and what should prevent some idiot popping up and putting down a law in the USA?

Scary !!!

Sorry to have to tell you this bud
But you dont know your #$%^ from your elbow when comes do geodomains.
its now how big a collection on names you have its how clever you are with your geo names that count.

Maybe your upset that most geo domainers dont use parking companys and dont have to use google adwords to earn a living.

Geo domains are the best way to get best revenue form advertisers direct with out having to use parking companys and other third party contacts.

I would also state that domainers who park there names and just work on the one model if feed from google or yahoo are asking for trouble long term.

and also reading your posts sometimes think your on diffrent planet
sp keep telling people that geo names are #$%^ and I will keep buying them

With geo names you dont need anyone to bring you in money and you dont have to work on traffic stats also.

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I don’t remember once I said they are not valuable or any of that sort. I said they are overrated in comparison to other categories, especially when it comes to building actual businesses. In term of “face value”, when it comes to cashflow/price paid (what most domainers do), they are overrated as well.

Have a great day,

Sahar

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Who says “Geo domains are asset rich but cash flow poor.” Another reason for me to invest in geo .TV

thank you,
emil

As far as developed geo .tv’s that have businesses running, examples include:

http://www.hamptonroads.tv owned by landmark communications
http://www.macon.tv owned by ABC affiliate
http://www.nebraska owned by ABC affiliate
http://www.boston.tv
http://www.tulsa.tv
http://www.oceanpark.tv
http://www.parkcity.tv
http://www.atlanticcity.tv
http://www.montreal.tv

I have a bunch of geo .info’s but I know from experience that walking into a business and trying to sell them advertising on a .info site (geo or not) - where you have to explain to them what .info actually means is infinitely more difficult.

And on your list of sites, there are very few that are developed. You can’t point to those and say they are a success story within a conversation about building a business since no business has been built.

If the GeoDomain is proper developed it can make the owner RICH beyond the wildest dreams.

A domain name like FremantleOnline.com , MyParramatta.com , ZagrebVip.com or RenoNevadaOnline.com could be set up as a website listing all the businesses on that website in that particular area (including Hotels and etc) and offer special deals to the visitor if he or she buys something on that website (20 - % off the price) that will bring more visitors to the site as many people shop for a GREAT bargain and GREAT service (which is hard to find).

Long live the GEO Domains

Thank you Sahar

Honestly, don’t you think is a reasonable to say that your advertisers pay you that 1MM per year simply because of the prestige of being listed on your sites? They’re not paying for the traffic, right?

- Richard

You make some excellent points in the quote below. A good geo-domain gives you a nice start, even a foot in the door. But the business is what counts in the end. If you build a content rich site that visitors value, then traffic builds and advertisers pay.

- Richard

“In a real business the domain, while helps 2%-5% generally, is nowhere near the value of the actual business. There are literally tens of thousands of examples all around you to indicate so while on the other hand, where you are coming from (exceptional geo domains, mostly travel related) the numbers falls short of 100 on a good counting day. You are making the exception the rule.”