gah! I need a domain name

**The Stealthy One** · 01-26-2008 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by SlightlyShadySEO

No. They were too cheap(around 30 cents I think) and someone picked up thousands of them and somehow FLOODED google with them and used them to peddle spyware. I remember reading an article that was showing over 50,000 unique pages had been indexed in the last 24 hours that were using this tactic. And it was happening faster. There's been some speculation that the entire TLD is under extra scrutiny for a bit due to that whole incident.

I hate to pull the experience card on you, but I've been involved with domain names and domain investing for 3.5 years now - .cn names are not worthless, especially in China. True, there is a much higher percentage of malware on .cn domains, but this does not mean they should be (or have been) completely written off.

**SlightlyShadySEO** · 01-26-2008 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by The Stealthy One

I hate to pull the experience card on you, but I've been involved with domain names and domain investing for 3.5 years now - .cn names are not worthless, especially in China. True, there is a much higher percentage of malware on .cn domains, but this does not mean they should be (or have been) completely written off.

I'm not completely writing them off, but I am saying that it would probably be wise to hold off on them until the full effects of Google's filtering or future actions have been seen.
However, I'm not a domainer, so I will definietly give your opinion a substantial amount of credit here.

**pentupentropy** · 01-28-2008 10:08 AM

i have been buying, selling and trading domains for about 11 years now, so while I'll take your opinion into consideration, I'll still say .cn's bear no weight against .com's. once again, even the chinese are more familiar with them as is the rest of the world. .uk is the brit country extension, yet they use .co.uk instead. there's a reason for that

There are NO extensions that are nearly as worthy as a .com unless it's a .org or .gov

**ioana2popa** · 01-30-2008 05:09 AM

any ideas?

**pentupentropy** · 01-30-2008 07:18 AM

check posts by collegeburnout. he has some domains for sale that are decent

**mwingrove** · 02-07-2008 05:26 AM

try sedo.co.uk

**bruiser1972** · 02-10-2008 09:29 PM

I own a pretty cool domain for a music related site, laying idol with it for now but would be interested in selling it.. PM me for domain.. Or if anyone reading this has interest in music or in joining together on a venture, I have a pretty good idea for its use. Currently in the middle of a different startup but had planned to jump on the music site within a year. I think it could be big.
Thanks,
GRH