Soj and others, my blog has been updated, 2 new posts and a few others in the works.

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Thanks wade, they were a good read. I had also looked at those geo city domain names and wondered why they weren't developed properly. Hence starting the SeeMelbourne project. Also looking forward to your future posts regarding "available names".

Thanks, I'll post results for the first 4 domains at the end of August, they are low volume and need time to show any results worth discussing.

Sometime in the next few weeks I'll post another batch of available names for everyone to have a look over, this time I will try to find 10-20 to make things more interesting.

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I like samedayloans.com.au and childcarecareer.com.au very much and would probably have nabbed them immediately.

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Interesting thread. I thought samedayloans sounded OK. But it gets hardly any traffic, "pay day loans" + "paydayloans" are 50x more popular. So I registered www.paydayloans.net.au

So... What tools do you use to determine popularity of terms and how big do you think the discount is between a .net.au and a .com.au? 10x? 20x? Any evidence?!

Hello Wade,

I wouldn't have purchased any but that's not because I think they're bad.

I think there are lots of different strategies among domainers that influence purchasing, price, etc. For instance, I tend to focus on domains that I would consider developing myself and have a basic plan for. I rarely buy just to flip the domain or resell. A favourite of mine is the tourism industry as I have a few in that area already.

Troy