Comments on: Should You Invest in .IM?

By: IMU

IMU — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:48:33 +0000

tr.im is a pr7

.us .we .you .me .im .them .everybody etc.

By: AbdulBasit Makrani

AbdulBasit Makrani — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:05:50 +0000

I have been investing in .IM domains for some time and have till now registered the following names:

Auto.im
Dog.im
Download.im
Downloads.im
Commerce.im
Europe.im
Lotto.im
Expert.im
Website.im
Free.im
Movie.im
Movies.im
Help.im
Park.im
Webhosting.im
Canada.im
Japan.im
Russia.im

By: crumblepie

crumblepie — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:27:54 +0000

I’m already investing in .im, and I think the value of this extension will increase as people realize just how many valuable keywords are selling in the $xx range. As people start buying them, inevitably the selling prices will increase too

I hope I’m not wrong about this.

By: Tia Wood

Tia Wood — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:26:43 +0000

@Chef Patrick: I have only done light SEO & development so far to see how things would go but Bookstore.im (avg 500 uniques/month) ranks for searched book titles, Fonts.im (avg. 800 uniques/month) ranks for 211 font names, Gourmet.im (avg. 200 uniques/month) ranks for a few cookbooks and categories. However, these are all under my CJ site with Joomla and I am going to add unique content.

@Domainer Income: You would be surprised at what remains. I’ll give you hint: generate yourself several keyword lists (popular vacation spots, most populated cities, top keywords, etc) and go through them.

For instance, I just picked up Tour.im this morning. For this extension, I would stick with one word, single generics or strict GEOs.

When typing .im into Google, you have to use *.im (tells Google to include everything behind dot and im) or google will omit the dot.

By: Domainer Income

Domainer Income — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:17:24 +0000

I’m a little surprised to read about .im as an investment. If you put aside the usual “sunset keywords” that get registered with any ccTLD, what remains?

In terms of .im’s that rank. If you type .im into Google you get a chat client on page 1 (pidgin.im) and on page 2 you get another chat client (imo.im), then the .im registry.

Completely agree that its definitely not as useless as .tel

By: Chef Patrick

Chef Patrick — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:02:50 +0000

Do you have any examples of .im domains that have ranked well?

By: BullS

BullS — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:15:43 +0000

Should You Invest in .IM?

sure by all means….buy as many as you like but leave the .com for me.