I am planning on investing in my country TLD but its a small country and alot of people are not use to the internet here. A lot of generic domain are available to hand register... Do you think it will be a good investment in the long run?
Like us, he's probably not in a position to know. The nature of 'forward investing' in domains is speculative at best, but perhaps he has a little virgin territory to work on. The .ng domains look prohibitively expensive though...What exactly do you mean by the long run? Like in 20 years?
I want to register a large portfolio of names and develop some of them.
Fools advice - Register only a few of the very best and ones that you plan to use. No matter what, renewing names that produce no income year after year gets very old and makes you poor! I can't tell you how many times that I have seen someone register tons of names only to throw up their hands and let both the good and bad ones expire. Do your research and register only the best. While I don't know a lot about Nigeria, from here at least, it doesn't seem like a country that is completely off of the map. I am sure that at least some are available as they may not be as good as you may think. Be careful.
I am planning on investing in my country TLD but its a small country and alot of people are not use to the internet here. A lot of generic domain are available to hand register... Do you think it will be a good investment in the long run?
West Africa is a region full of business opportunities (I spent a few years there but never been in Nigeria). Even the ones with the least purchasing power own a mobile phone these days. My hunch is that the internet will be much more integrated in these regions too.
I would look at what kind of businesses are successful in other (neighboring) countries and see if you can translate the model to your region. Many producers and exporters have no clue about domainnames, websites etc and do not know how to connect to the online business world in other countries. I know the fresh produce niche is such an example. You could help them out by creating a professional looking site and possibly do other things for them too.
You didn't get on the bandwagon when it was FREE to register .com.ng domains?!
If it's something you plan on not promoting on the search engines, then go for it.
If it's for long term, you don't see much smaller country domain names ranked on top of google searches.
Hope that helped.
You might be right but i believe with a proper SEO in place my ccTLD will rank top in search engine. I want to consult an SEO expert.