Gun.com.au

[woodville]

I've seen quite alot for sale on Sedo and always wondered how people go selling on the site and whether or not they have sales fall over due to people not being eligible to register .au domain names.

That's an excellent point. I must remember to mention that they have to be eligible if I put it up for sale.

Thanks
Darrin

 

[findtim]

I think that market is limited because the term is somewhat negative. If you do a search on Google there isn't that many people using the term that way. So it is quite different to say "Orange" or "Prime" or "Crane" where there would be hundreds of companies already using the term as their brand.

negative? GUN is always used as a leader, TOP GUN, i think its is the glass half full theory.

orange/prime/crane all need branding , same for gun, it has no search value for me, it is purely someone taking it on and branding it via traditional media.

traditional media has held its own over recent years, newspapers are about to die but radio and tv are here to stay, this means "radio test domains" are more valuable IMO, short...... more valuable....... short and a word........ more valuable, but they have to have the $$$$ behind them.

so someone buys gun for $x,xxx which is good for the owner, and fair, and then the new owner spends $xxx,xxx branding it.

the problem for the domainer is thinking they should have got the $xxx,xxx which isn't reality

i think its a good score, just don't get greedy and whatever happens to it, let it go.

tim

 

[Data Glasses]

Guns are used to kill people and in war ...nothing good about them, no matter what colour they are it's a negative domain name in my view and many others i would suspect

 

[snoopy]

negative? GUN is always used as a leader, TOP GUN, i think its is the glass half full theory.

orange/prime/crane all need branding , same for gun, it has no search value for me, it is purely someone taking it on and branding it via traditional media.

traditional media has held its own over recent years, newspapers are about to die but radio and tv are here to stay, this means "radio test domains" are more valuable IMO, short...... more valuable....... short and a word........ more valuable, but they have to have the $$$$ behind them.

so someone buys gun for $x,xxx which is good for the owner, and fair, and then the new owner spends $xxx,xxx branding it.

the problem for the domainer is thinking they should have got the $xxx,xxx which isn't reality

i think its a good score, just don't get greedy and whatever happens to it, let it go.

tim

The average company would pass it by,

If you had a choice between,

Domain A, short, memorable.
Domain B, short memorable, but may offend.

Very few companies would choose Domain B. Maybe if it were a nightclub or rock bank they might choose B, but it is the minority.

 

[Shane]

FWIW, I would never use the word 'gun' in any of my business names or marketing, but I wouldn't boycott any others that did.

I recall a couple of sports teams in the US have changed names in the past to remove references to guns, bullets etc.

 

[Data Glasses]

In America it would be a killer (excuse the pun) But not in this country i'm afraid

 

[snoopy]

In America it would be a killer (excuse the pun) But not in this country i'm afraid

Even then gun.com is a park page as well. There would be more a market in terms of actual guns but for brand purposes it has exactly the same issues in my view.

 

[Data Glasses]

I could see it being a blog/magazine address in the states but not here