Assuming that Alternative energy an more specifically Electric Vehicles(EV) will (literally) be all over the map by 2010. I built a small porfolio of names related to the trend/sector including most citie/states+EV.com ie:
MiamiEV.com
bostonev.com
brooklynev.com
canadaev.com
I may join this site but first I would like your thoughts about “aventure” or hobby if you prefere with EVdomains.com.
Thanks in advance,
Yves

It was great to meet you at the Expo this weekend. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this industry niche, as well as domaining in general… this was my first domain conference and there is nothing more inspiring to a newbie domainer than to listen first-hand to the stories and experiences of the people who have already achieved some success.

I can’t find you on linkedin - would you mind adding “Dmitry Dyatlov” to your network if you’re on that?

I wish you safe return home after your next tour of duty, and best of luck with your growing internet businesses.

Dmitry

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Dmitry,
Thank you. It was a pleasure to meet you as well. I am on linkedin. I will add you soon. Thanks.

I firmly believe and have experienced it (from 25 years in the U.S. Army) that the NCO’s are THE most important group of leaders in our military–indeed, IMHO, they “run” the Army!!!

Thanks,

Dave Conners

Great site, really enjoy the topics and the progress of geo names. Keep up the excellent work, I am sure that you will be successful in your venture.

My favourite (weird) geo name is Upotipotpon - a district not far from where we live. Might use it to promote toilet seats ! cheers

My question is which templates are they. I’d like to put up templates and start adding content rather than having them sitting there with PPC. Please email me or post link.

ps Yes, the future is local marketing. Just think about the location based buzz that’s occurring for wireless devices…..ALL GEO TARGETED. Any additional strategies for building out GEO domains is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Bob,

Sorry for the delay. I may have been a little misleading with this statement. Just in case, let me clarify. There are no geo domain templates developed at this time publicly that I know of. We are working with a development company who is developing these for the geo domain industry. There are a variety of templates available that you can add content to and start developing on the low end. All you have to do is do a search on google.com for templates. Really, anyone of them will work. Just pick one that presents a professional setting or fits with your geo domain location/culture. Bulkregister.com has many available as well if you have an account. Templates will help you discover effective ways to improve your site and content useful to consumers. This will also allow you to start generating revenue from adsense (Which will be much more than if you parked your geo domain) because of the targeted content found on the site. If you do it good enough, you will even get advertisers once you build the traffic. It really is not that hard, on the low end to get something up and functioning the way geo domains are intended to be used. The more content, the more traffic, which leads to revenue. Geo domains are intimate brands consumers know.

The best part about getting your site up is it will get indexed into search engines and rank with effective SEO (some templates help you with this). And this delivers free traffic.

I experimented with the template process recently to prove it works on http://www.vizcaya.us (put it up early February). This is a very poor example for a geo site with no revenue possibilities built in because of borrowed content for the experiment, but it was done just to prove consumers find geo domains regardless of the extention, even if it is done poorly. This name had zero traffic and you can see people are finding it, regardless of the extention(3 hits are from me) so a total of 13 unique visitors have visited this site. It is probally more since most people do not like sites with Flash Media and leave. The visit does not get logged until they hit the main page with the template I am using.

All I did was put a bunch of generic content. Probally not very useful once they get there. But they are getting there from this content. I put this up in 10-15 minutes, imagine if you put some real effort and time into your geo domains with targeted content that visitors find useful.

Anything is possible. Geo domains are great because you can do this over and over again. Of course you will have to tweak things depending on the demographics of your area from site to site.

Templates allow you to start with the basics, especially if you are on a budget. There is no need to wait until you have the money to develop a key domain. Consumers could care less about the bells and whistles. They want useful content. All you really need is time and a vision of how you want to develop your geo.

Craigslist.org proves this theory that consumers do not care about the beauty of a site, they only care if it meets their needs.

Learn the process first, then move up in stages until you have a professional site established. Too many people want to run starting off. The Crawl, Walk, Run process works best for long term profits and education.

I hope this helps clear some things up for you. If not, ask away.

Nice work and a useful blog.

Just came across this earlier today, so I can’t claim to have read it in much depth, but prima facie, I liked your straight-forward presentation of self-introduction.

I’ll keep looking in here from time to time and all the best.

Vic

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Thank you Vic. I am glad that you came across the blog. Thank you for visiting.