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hostel domain names question

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Artem started this discussion 7 years 9 months ago

Hi, everyone! I'm a travel blogger, not the owner of a hostel. But I have a specific question, which I think is related to your forum. I had an opportunity to get several domain names, all about hostels. How do you think do they have any value? I'm not here to promote the domains or websites, so I'll show only one of them for example - hostellosangeles dot com - other domains are the same: hostel+city+.com, and cities are well-known destinations all over the world. I really don't know where else on the internet to put this question, because it's too specific. So, thank you in advance!

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sledboy

7 years

So, let me get this right... You've bought some domain names cheaply, and plan to make your little fortune out of them, am I right? As somebody who's having to secure one or two in the near future and finding it all very frustrating, I'm probably the wrong person to ask.

Perhaps you might just want to list the ones you've now get control of, and offer to give individual ones away to the odd individual needing to secure one in order to take their business forward, and in doing so enable more quality budget accommodation to be made available and marketed?...

All the Best, kind soul...

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Breeze

7 years

Well, I mentioned one of them in my first post in order to get opinions about their meaning in current hostel market. Just thought hostel owners know this better than anyone else.

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SilverSeagull

7 years

From my point of view it is scam. Anyway these domain names have no value, otherwise you would not be able to buy them.

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Breeze

7 years

SilverSeagull, are you a hostel owner or not? If yes, than it's very intersting that owners consider this kind of domains have zero value)) Any opinion is welcome actually. I have my own view, but in the end I don't mind and if they are really zero I'm totally ok with it. And question is not whether I was able to buy them, it's about what do you think about these names? And also please tell me what do you mean by scam in this case?)

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Levi de Souza

7 years

If someone wants to start a Hostel called Hostel Los Angeles, and realize that hostellosangeles.com is already yours, he will simply buy the www.hostellosangeles.org or any other similar.

In times of SEO, the hostel website adress itself have no value.

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Breeze

7 years

Levi de Souza, if you are right then all hostels i the world should use other extensions than .com, but I can hardly find one. For example, I've looked through listings of different hostels in big cities on google maps. And you know what? Some of the hostels are using local extensions like .de, .co.uk and etc., but others are in .com So, you might be right about possibility to register your domain in .org, but who cares about this unpopular extension?

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Levi de Souza

7 years

Breeze, nobody cares about any extension at all. Nobody types extensions anymore.

Is it so difficult so understand that?

Anyway, a lot of people here already gave their opinions about that, that your "idea" is quite useless. If you still want to insist, good luck.

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Breeze

7 years

Thank you. As I said I appreciate any opinions. I'm not insting on anything. I have my own view, but I understand yours. But facts can tell for themselves - I can't find hostel's in .org, might be they are existing, but not so many as .com And your statement that nobody types extensions is simply delusion if not provided with prove. So, yes, it's impossible to understand without prove))

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Levi de Souza

7 years

" I can't find hostel's in .org"

There are many of them, specially in USA where a lot of people already had theidea that (you think) you had.

http://www.sfhostels.org/

http://www.norcalhostels.org/

http://hilosangeles.org/

And many others.

So yes, the facts talk about themselves and probably your idea doesn't worth the effort.

Additional to that, if someone have the hostel name registered, and it is specific enough, you can be sued by using it.

As i said to a guy that wanted to sell ar-conditioners in Siberia once: Good Luck.

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Breeze

7 years

Yes, you found them, but I doubt these .orgs can beat .coms by quantity. I mean even in hostel niche you can hardly argue, but in total there are more .coms registered then any other domains. For me it shows that people prefer .com, it's more popular no matter what other extensions exist.

What do you mean by "my idea"? I didn't express any ideas that may or may not be "worth effort" in this topic))

About legal side of this question. I made it clear in my first post what these domains are looking like. I can repeat it again: hostel+city+.com Why overthink that?)

Well, man. If you are a hostel owner your opinion is interesting as it is.

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