I just received news that after a few months of VIP Beta (Ning social network), GrandNames.com is now live and will be announced to the world in all it’s glory sometime next week in a press release.
I want to make it clear here that I have nothing personal against the owner, Mr. Frager, a marketing and business expert turned domainer. Frager is a very inspirational person who stays in the loop on domain news, often sharing valuable and thought-provoking blog posts. I also enjoy his email newsletter.
I simply feel that the service and domains themselves found on GrandNames are over-rated and over-priced.
The majority of house listings, which I assume are owned by Mr. Frager, are completely worthless. Yes, I am a realist who is quite picky when it comes to the quality of a domain name and potential for a domain name to be used and benefit an end-user.
- OutOfStealthMode.com – $999 (DotSauce Appraisal: $0)
- PeoplePlanetProfits.org – $999 (DotSauce Appraisal: $0)
- ReservedSeat.com – $999 (DotSauce Appraisal: $200)
- SoundsFunnyToMe.com – $999 (DotSauce Appraisal: $0)
- Too-Sexy.com – $899 (DotSauce Appraisal: $8)
- WhosTheRealDaddy.com – $999 (DotSauce Appraisal: $0)
- GrandmaGotCoupons.com – $899 (DotSauce Appraisal: $0)
How could you, in good conscience sell domains like these? This is just a small sampling of some of the domains found on GrandNames.To be fair, only about 25% of the domains listed on GrandNames are these terrible house listings. With the VIP listings it almost gets worse. The same trend of high prices for mediocre domain names continues.
I paid $15 a long time ago when the beta was first announced, the price is $49.95 a year as of today. I was able to submit a handful of domains to be listed… though I did not opt for fee based premium marketing services (a blog post).
- DiscSet.com - $900
- TelephonePrank.com – $750
While I hope they sell through the miracle of marketing and promotion to Mr. Frager’s clients, I have my doubts and feel these could be better promoted elsewhere on forums or other domain marketplaces.
In summary, I do not recommend GrandNames as a domain buyer, seller or end-user. Do the research yourself, DotSauce has lots of great articles to help. Launch your own free domain portfolio and get the word out. Marketing and advertising isn’t that hard if you put the hours in. Think for a minute before you register a worthless domain name.
What are your thoughts? Please comment below.
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