closed Hyphenated Masterpieces!!!!

[schmidte]

The-E.com and The-E.net

I know they're hyphenated but that's the only way to say "the e".
The name, thee.com is a foreign site about ?? (don't know language)

Ebay, Etrade, Enom, Ezine and Eonline(TV's E! channel), email.......... I think the marketing possibilities are endless, the letter E has already establised it self in the DN and web market.

2 things going for me:
The most widely used word in the English Dictionary
(see this site http://www.zingman.com/commonWords.html ) and
the most recognized letter on the internet!

Google results=502,000,000
The thing about Google on this one is that it filters out the "the" and defaults the search to the letter e.
This way....."the-e" (in quotes) gets 4,080,000 results.

Overture does the same sort of filtering (I think), leaving out the "the" and just giving results for e. OV=236,777

They're short names and I think in this case, the hyphen is an advantage. Some good E words: Eve, Extraterrestrials, Erotica, Ebony, Election, Economy, Education, Energy, Europe, Extreme, Eastern.

Value?


FYI There are 32,477 domain names that start with "The-"

http://The-E.com

 

[GiantDomains]

You'd have to spend millions in advertising to get people to recognize that brand, and all that money would be wasted, because they would forget to type the hyphen anyway.

$00

 

[CoolHost.com]

"Value?"

I rarely pull an 'Alaneads, but I'm going to have to agree with Doberry here and do just that ... these silly, hyphen-ated domain names are worth $0.00 no matter how you slice it! Sorry. Good Luck.
PS. I think your "research" here is not as objective as it should be.

 

[schmidte]

Originally posted by CoolHost
"Value?"

PS. I think your "research" here is not as objective as it should be.

Could you be more specific CoolHost........

 

[timechange.com]

OK....let's check the calendar.

It says "2003".

Not 1998.

E/I are out. Dashes are not necessarily bad but this combo is hard to swallow.

 

[NameCaster]

schmidte,

I saw a better domain that is still available in the "electricgentlemen" thread.

Cheers!

 

[namedropper]

2 things going for me:
The most widely used word in the English Dictionary

No, that would be "the.com".

Google results=502,000,000
The thing about Google on this one is that it filters out the "the" and defaults the search to the letter e.

Then it's obviously not 502,000,000.

This way....."the-e" (in quotes) gets 4,080,000 results.

Only because the hyphen is dropped and assumed to be a space, so ANY time "the" is used before a word that starts with "e" it shows up as a result. That's nowhere near the same as saying "The-E.com" has value, which would be as silly as me saying that because a search for "You-are-a" gets me 4,440,000 results that "You-are-a.com" is worth any money.

They're short names and I think in this case, the hyphen is an advantage.

The hyphen is almost never an advantage.

Some good E words: Eve, Extraterrestrials, Erotica, Ebony, Election, Economy, Education, Energy, Europe, Extreme, Eastern.

I can list a bunch of good names I don't own the .coms in either, that doesn't make any of the names I do own any more valuable.

Value?

$0.

Sorry, but you asked, and my lying to you and saying it's a good name doesn't make you earn any money either.

--
Dan Norder - Savanna.com, FineGold.com, etc.
High profile and niche domain names for sale

 

[CoolHost.com]

"Ebay, Etrade, Enom, Ezine and Eonline(TV's E! channel), email.......... I think the marketing possibilities are endless, the letter E has already establised it self in the DN and web market."

OK. I'll just begin with the most obvious "subjective" statement/research you outlined above. Here, as 2003 also mentions, the "E" WAS at one time 'established' ... but in the current re-sale market they are most assuredly yesterday's news. You may believe "the marketing possibilities are endless", but the current re-sale climate for the "E" contrasts, almost negates this claim. I am assuming you're looking for appraisals, or "value", for its re-sale potential, of course ... here in this section. Good Luck.

"Overture does the same sort of filtering (I think), leaving out the "the" and just giving results for e. OV=236,777"

And, this isn't right! You can't just accept the sole "e" results within the OVT search for your "The-E" ... that's like comparing apples to aliens. The actual OVT results/monthly type-in's for "The-E" or "The E" would be 0.00 in ANY month, ever! C'mon ... how can your statement/research quoted above be objective in this light? IMO. Naturally, however, I wish you Good Luck.

 

[Wot]

How about eEurozone.com ?

 

[Duke]

Originally posted by dotus
How about eEurozone.com ?

Equally bad. These names all represent wasted reg fe-es.

 

[Marty]

Search engines works good for hyphenated domains, ie car-gear-wheels.com

 

[namedropper]

Actually, I think that's outdated info. More importantly, it doesn't matter, because nobody is going to search for "The E" because it doesn't mean anything.

--
Dan Norder - Savanna.com, FineGold.com, etc.
High profile and niche domain names for sale

 

[dotcom]

i agree - its probably the same as having

who-am.COM (available)

both words may get mass exposure in the engines, but when it comes down to it, who would search for "who am"

 

[options]

Well, if you can manage to attract all those people looking for "e" that would be a good job.
According to OT 236777 searches in November.

 

[DomainPairs]

If you are looking for an alternative to thee (the old english friendly you). I can offer you tuum.com which is the Latin equivalent (well almost).

Seriously though. thee looks to be an interesting word in the se lists. Maybe it includes typos for "the" and "three".

 

[schmidte]

Can someone explain this to me..........

How does chaam.info get a $50 appraisial and crappyhost.com gets a $100 appraisial and The-E.COM gets the usual ha-ha-he-he abuse? Oh well............wasted another $17.00


I respect all your comments and for the most part I'll agree with them, cause pretty much MOST names are worth $0 until developed. But sometimes I see the Piped Piper Effect in these threads........

Thanks Dudes

Also, somebody posted:
Actually, I think that's outdated info. More importantly, it doesn't matter, because nobody is going to search for "The E" because it doesn't mean anything.

Good point..........can someone tell me what ebay means?

 

[mole]

ebay was one of the very few examples of sites that survived the fat slicing machinery of dotbomb.

The-e.com seems like an initiative to market a prefix gateway to many other names eg The-ecommerce.com, The-email.com

Many people tried to artificially create these prefixes in hope of starting massive site portals. Most have given up. The spin factor is always a gamble built on sand.

It's back to basics now.

 

[Kid Kool]

Originally posted by schmidte
Can someone explain this to me..........

How does chaam.info get a $50 appraisial and crappyhost.com gets a $100 appraisial and The-E.COM gets the usual ha-ha-he-he abuse? Oh well............wasted another $17.00


I respect all your comments and for the most part I'll agree with them, cause pretty much MOST names are worth $0 until developed. But sometimes I see the Piped Piper Effect in these threads........

Thanks Dudes

Also, somebody posted:
Actually, I think that's outdated info. More importantly, it doesn't matter, because nobody is going to search for "The E" because it doesn't mean anything.

Good point..........can someone tell me what ebay means?

the name "ebay" would have been worthless alone. they spent millions of dollars branding it with television commercials and affiliate advertising.

If you spend $50,000,000 on tv and radio ads for "the-e.com"
and come back and get it appraised people will give it a higher valuation.

 

[Anthony Ng]

>schmidte: Hyphenated Masterpieces!!!!

Sorry, but whenever it's hyphenated, it's NOT gonna be a masterpiece.

I have written many times about web-based.com which I had not been able to sell for as low as $300 over 3 years before I let it expired.

web-based.com is already the kind of name that the hyphenated version is actually BETTER than the non-hyphenated: webbased.com doesn't look good, right?

 

[Duke]

Originally posted by schmidte
Can someone explain this to me..........

How does chaam.info get a $50 appraisial and crappyhost.com gets a $100 appraisial and The-E.COM gets the usual ha-ha-he-he abuse?

I would rate those two at $0 as well. The fact that someone may have said $50 and $100 still leaves the appraisals in a $0-100 range and that is still a pretty narrow range considering all of the various viewpoints (all indicating little to no value as well).