Not really valuable.
It's going to lose traffic to AshkenazicJews.com, so you'd need both. But why want either?
For developing the seller's suggested application, why wouldn't you be better off with Yekkie, JewTown, FrumFriends, Landsmen, JewHub, AmYisrael, JewTalk, Jtalk, KlalYisrael, jForums, JewishStars, Yidn, ShulTalk, or any of a zillion other better Jewish community domain names?
I might hold such a domain if I had it, and put a blog or forum there when I got around to that, but I wouldn't bid the $28 minimum to acquire it as a moneymaker.

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'Cheap' is an adjective, 'cheaply' an adverb. We buy cheap [stuff] and buy [stuff] cheaply. Although many of the experts here have confessed to misusing 'cheap' and underusing 'cheaply', the connotations of these words still derive from their historically correct usage: Buying cheap merchandise is negative; buying merchandise cheaply is positive.

Thus, BuyCheaply.com might be an appropriate domain name for blogging about negotiation techniques; or for publishing/vending resources for corporate buyers.

It might not be the best domain name for catalog sales of cheap stuff, if only because many linguistically carefree, returning customers would "remember" BuyCheap.com.


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There are only three reasons for a domain investor to buy a name:
- park it for traffic
- develop it for ad revenue
- sell (or lease) it to an end-user
(or let inspire you to start a business:
install a drop-ship sales catalog,
a lead-generation directory site, etc.,
which isn't really domain investing anymore)

For investors seeking an Organic Clothing Industry domain to park, the great name to have would be OrganicClothing.com, not DressOrganic.com. (Perhaps OrganicDress.com, but not "DressOrganic.com".)

DressOrganic only makes sense as a verb+object with 'you' as the implied subject. What do we find if we look at other verb+object apparel names?

You can register WearSweaters right now in all extensions; yes dot-com included. (If you act on this tip, how about buying me a beer?)

WearWool.com is registered only in .com, and even that is undeveloped.

Yeah, "GotMilk" was a nice campaign; but "DrinkMilk" is undeveloped in all extensions, except that dot-org is redirected to a real end-user.

A domain investor has no need to "get the word out and encourage people to dress organic." But what about manufacturers or retailers specializing in organic clothing? What about value to end-users?

DressOrganic.com could host a drop-shipper's clothing catalog site, or an industry consortium promotional site, or an on-line community of eco-philiacs who seek no profit. But unless more than one end-user is bidding, the domain won't go for much. (An end-user is someone who intends to die still owning the domain.)

Forecast: If multiple end-users are bidding against each other, it could go between $700 and $1,750; otherwise $100 to $500.
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OK, fellow experts. Let's start a pool. I predict it'll hammer down at about $13,500.

I'd love to be proved wrong and have it go much higher. (A rising tide lifts all boats.) But I don't think so...

As for those who don't think the name makes sense: In the USA, car salespeople tout their well-cooled gas guzzlers by noting that "this car includes air," and customer support people identify you by asking "What's your social?" So if Loan Officers want to tout "fixed loans," who am I to put the kabosh on their linguistic lacunae.)
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If I owned it, I wouldn't renew it, because:

It won't get type-in traffic.

It doesn't make sense as a subject to blog about for ad revenue.

It doesn't make sense as a name for a directory or lead-generation script.

It is usable only as a brand name for a photographer or a camera store (either brick-and-mortar or a drop-shippers catalog). But there are myriads of equally good (or better) brand names that could be invented. And these are not big rich businesses to begin with.

If you found an end-user who felt the brand name fit him like a glove, you might be able to sell it for $700 to $1,200. That would be after a very long time, with a lot of work, and with good luck. But why invest in something like that?

(If you are that end-user, don't let me discourage you. Buy it here.)



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If you want to sell this domain to an end-user, your customers will be professional trombone players and trombone teachers. Neither typically have any money, so this domain would never sell for more than low to mid $xxx. (And type-in traffic doesn't mean much to a trombone teacher in Spokane, seeking local students.)

I assume the current owner has already tried to sell it to http://www.MusicTeachersHelper.com/ and failed. After all, MTH parked trombonist.net there, but ought to prefer the dot-com for that.

IMO, the best use would be to create an on-line community of trombonists, similar to the online community at http://www.Accordionist.org

Let the site's users build the content up over time, and watch the Adsense grow. Be advised that there is significant marketing effort up front in doing this. In the beginning, your forum will be like a party before the first guests arrive. It took accordionist.org several hundred targeted personal emails, three contests, and about six months of other promotion to reach critical mass.

And to withstand the tasks of moderating, you'll be much happier if you already love the trombone.

The parallel is clear. Do exactly the same thing as accordionist.org, but for trombones. In the long run, you'll make more than you could by selling it to an end-user for their own business use.

On the other hand, domainers love to invest in dictionary dot-coms. Perhaps this one will fly to the stratosphere for a while. Has anyone posted traffic stats for it?
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WinningPick.com might be a good brand if you've something of value to deliver. In lotteries, all numbers have an equal chance of winning; but not all numbers are bet on with equal frequency. If multiple winners must split the payout, then when an unpopular number wins, the lone winner takes home more than if he'd won (along with others) via a popular number.

If the payout is based on the total of all the bets placed, and if the betting gets very lopsided toward the most popular numbers, and if you play only the numbers that no one else is likely to bet, it is actually possible to find bets that have a positive expectation value. (That means that if you played situations like this an infinite number of times, you'd expect to make rather than lose money. In other words the odds are actually on your side, in the infinitely long run.)

Software could collect the results of all lotteries. For every number that wins, record the number of winners who bet on it, and the total number of bets placed on all numbers. Compile frequency tables to show what fraction of the bets get placed on each number. (You are looking or the numbers that no one bets on.) With enough historical data, you could compare the frequency tables for lotteries in different countries. You could track changes in gamblers' tastes for numbers.

Once the frequency table is known, compare the payout sizes to the number of bets. Identify situations with a positive expectation value, and SELL THIS INFO TO YOUR SUBSCRIBERS. Send a Winning Pick by e-mail.

Use WinningPick.com to explain your method and to sell subscriptions. Of course, anybody could apply your method for himself, but its far easier to pay you to do it as a service.

This service doesn't increase your odds of winning the lottery. If there are a million different numbers to bet on, your odds are still one in a million. But this service increases your odds of making money via the lottery; even to the point of the odds being that lottery-playing becomes profitable (in the infinitely long run). It is a "winning pick" in that it has a positive expectation value.



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A savvy business doesn't particularly need a three-letter name. Any great brand name will do. Would ZGM have been a better business name than Exxon, Google, or Amica?

Anybody who imagines that three letter names are any scarcer than four letter names beginning with N, doesn't understand mathematics. And anyone who says that "scarcity equals value" understands only half the concept of supply and demand.

So what is the end-user market for ZGM.com? What other options do those buyers have? And what will they pay?

Like all 3-letter names, ZGM.com is a memorable identity for any new enterprise to build a brand around. But so are many other identities. A savvy business doesn't particularly need a three-letter name. Any great brand name will do.

Three-letter domains are popular with domainers, and this one will probably fetch on the order of $2,250 to $3,250.

I personally don't see why an end-user would place that much value on meaningless three-letter combinations when there are other meaningless, connotation-free, brandable names that would be just as useful, and may be available for far less.

Would ZGM have been a better business name than Exxon, Google, or Amica?
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More of an "acronym" than a "brandable." For example:

Zhe Jiang Province (a Chinese province)

Zionist Jewish Philanthropies (Parenting/Projects/Portfolio)

AcronymFinder's got 52 solid meanings for JP. Stick a z-begun adjective in front. Or insert a z-begun locale (Zimbabwe, Zanizibar,...).

ZJ with a p-begun suffix is harder to construct:
ZJ is a model of Jeep Cherokee.
ZJ was also a Navy Airship Utility Squadron from the 1940s to 1960s.

That's all for English; but in some other languages (e.g., German), Z is a very common letter. (Hmmmm. Which countries have large economies, and languages with common Z's; but don't prefer their own ccTLD to .com, and don't risk moving to IDNs in the future?)

Unless you're into gambling, don't buy a three-letter dot-com based only on the presumption that investors/domainers will buy you out at higher prices later. That's betting on a bubble carrying you upwards.

What would an end-user pay for it? That is any domain's only enduring value.


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