Advice on selling a “Top Level”.ie domain name

[Brendan Burgess]

I have a generic four letter word registered as a dot .ie

On reflection, I don't think that dot.ies are worth that much. .coms have a worldwide occupation so if you had a domain like dog.com it would be worth a lot. But dog.ie probably wouldn't be.

 

[ClubMan]

so if you had a domain like dog.com

Careful now, you might upset/trigger people who are afraid of dogs.

 

[patfert1]

But dog.ie probably wouldn't be.

The value depends how likely search engines or AI agents are to pick up on the domain in response to a query, for example if I have the domain tyres.ie and someone queries for "tyres". Nowadays site content is - to best of my knowledge - given far far more priority than the domain name (if the domain name is even relevant at all). This isn't 1998 anymore.

That said, tyres.ie certainly would have significant overall marketing value to a countrywide business selling tyres.

I work with a medium-sized business which uses a .net domain. When I checked the availability of the .com version of their name, it's on auction for minimum 40k USD. This domain name would have no relevance to anyone except that company (or potentially a competitor). IMO whoever owns that is an idiot for asking min 40k. For a few grand, the company would probably buy it.

 

[Leo]

The value depends how likely search engines or AI agents are to pick up on the domain in response to a query, for example if I have the domain tyres.ie and someone queries for "tyres". Nowadays site content is - to best of my knowledge - given far far more priority than the domain name (if the domain name is even relevant at all). This isn't 1998 anymore.

Yeah, it's content rather than domain name that the search engines use to rank content now and then only after the sites that are paying for higher rankings. A .ie domain might influence a user and encourage them to select that result over a .com or other domain, but there are also multiple threads on here from users who were caught out assuming a .ie domain belonged to an Irish company only to find it was based abroad and just shipped product here. Approaching 10% of .ie domains are owned by companies who have no presence here.

 

[Purple]

I don't think it is a good idea for the website to be advocating the use of explosives and I find it upsetting and triggering.

I find talk of triggering explosives triggering.

 

[presidenttttt]

Cliff hanger; page 2 and we don't know the site's name.