Don’t Click This

I was reading Tyler’s post the other day about people overpricing domain names and it reminded me of some the ‘premium’ domains that I came across when I first started making websites which were insanely expensive for reasons I just didn’t understand. A few examples:

33166.com - $5,000
7A7.com - $14,000
DDelivery.com - $2,600

The last one is my favourite - apparantley if you stick a letter in front of a word that is already considered a premium domain it becomes one too! Anyway, I guess a lot of people are drawn to domaining because it ‘appears’ like easy money (much like a lot of people who decide to get into affiliate marketing) and they see genuine premium domains selling for millions of dollars. I’ve also come across some pretty interesting domain appraisal tools like this one which valued my blog at nearly $4,000 (if only!), tools which seem to be taken a bit too seriously by a bit too many people!