If you’ve been searching through forums and markets at domain names for sale and not quite sure how to choose a valuable domain name, this article will outline the most important points to consider so you can be confident you’ve made a good choice.

Although we’d all like it if we could come up with a brilliant idea for a domain and go off and register it for the low initial registration fee sadly those days are gone. Now don’t get me wrong, occasionally you might stumble on one that hasn’t already been registered but for the most part all the good ones have been taken.

Domain Extensions

While there are a number of domain extensions available such as.net,.org,.biz etc and others being added such as.co the reality is that the most valuable extension is and always will be.com. This leaves you with a choice to make. Should I register a domain with an extension with a perceived lower value or should I purchase a.com which although it will cost more, will by default have a perceived higher value?

Domain Wording

Aside from the extension issue here is where those who are new to online marketing make big mistakes. For the most part, a good domain should have:

No filler words – These are words that essentially have no meaning or relation to your business or product and so add no value to your domain. Words such as and, for, is, things are good examples. For the most part searchers looking to buy online are not searching for products using these words. They are searching for “debt help” instead of “stuff for helping debt, and “dog training” instead of “training and stuff for dogs”.
Perceived Value – Some words carry a certain amount of authority which will enhance the value of a domain name when included. Words such as Success, Impact, Entrepreneur and others give a positive impression in certain markets.
Search Value – It is important to choose a domain which includes words that are being searched for by your target market. This is where good keyword research comes in so that you are likely to get a good number of searchers landing on your site once you build id around your domain and link to it.

Taking all the above elements into consideration should give you a good understanding of how to determine which of the domain names for sale are of the most value and if they are worth more or less than the asking price of the seller. If you become very good at this skill you can also make good money buying and reselling domains as you can buy names that you see as undervalued and then resell them in a more knowledgeable market and pocked the profits.

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