So do I, and I would never have paid even $1 for a domain like that. I suspect that if you had only spent some of that $150K or so on the kinds of domains found at casinodn.com, you would be a much happier man than you are here today. Just slapping a word in front of *onlinegambling.com doesn’t make it worth more than $0, even less than $0 because of the time and money it cost you – but there are of course many good *onlinegambling.com domains out there to be found.
It seems fitting to mention, both for the benefit of other forum readers as well as the business, that there is a vast chasm and world of difference between a natural search keyword people seek out continually for the purpose of spending money at your website and bringing you revenue and profit vs. a forced artificial stringing together of words. The difference can often be a bit like being firmly planted on the Atlantic City boardwalk while customers continually come to you looking for exactly what you have to offer, vs. drowning in the water just slightly offshore, well within sight of the boardwalk, and hoping emergency rescue will show up in time before you sink to the bottom.
So, to continue the comparison between BingoOnlineGambling.com and a domain like ChipsOnlineGambling.com quoted above, here are the facts involving the #1 search engine of most concern to webmasters:
BingoOnlineGambling.com
Search keyword (Broad search): bingo online gambling
-Rank among related keywords: #1
-Search volume for September: 480
-Average monthly 12-month search volume: 1,000
ChipsOnlineGambling.com
Search keyword (Broad search): chips online gambling
-Rank among related keywords: no other related terms – it’s on its own
-Search volume for September: “Not enough data”
-Average monthly 12-month search volume: “Not enough data”
So, when you combine the potential of a domain like BingoOnlineGambling.com with the state of the online bingo industry, the content and seo skills of the kinds of casino affiliates you see here at CAP, or a direct bingo operator, you’ve got a name with a lot of potential and usefulness. The “not enough data” domain remains in an entirely different class, like apples and oranges, and BingoOnlineGambling.com takes the stack. Moreover, BingoOnlineGambling.com is not even within a hundred miles of being one of the best domains you’ll find at sites like CasinoDN.com, so basically it was perhaps among the worst possible examples one could have even chosen to try to make this kind of comparison at all.
Happy shopping, and remember: no second-tier gtld’s, no hyphens, no nonpremium domains, all offers and inquiries welcome. Nothing but a big smorgasbord of generic, generically descriptive, regional, and superbrandable domains – nothing but a policy of win-win.