namewaiter said:
for many, buying and building an online business revolves around a brandable domain... not the traffic, not the linkpop, not the alexa rating, not the page rank.
Bingo. We have a winner! Give this man an oversized and poorly reproduced stuffed character from one of last decade's popular cartoon shows.
On this forum, brandability means next to nothing. I can't GIVE away my "brandable" 0-OVT, 0-LinkPop domains. But these are the ones the end-users want -- not stale traffic or typos from some other site that couldn't afford to pay their renewal fees.
Decide for yourself what type of domain you want to spend your money on: One which reliably makes you a few cents a month but will never be worth more than a few $$ to the end-user, or one which makes $0 per month, but with proper marketing can be sold to someone eager to develop and market for real action. It's not an easy decision, and why most domainers on this board opt for the former over the latter -- consistent and reliable revenue. But it's domains like the latter that sell for $x,xxx out in the "real world". :bandit: