As a domain name investor, SEO player and blogger… I know a Great Domain Name when I see one and Plans.com is a Great One!
The domain name Plans.com is really a once in a lifetime domain name. Plans.com meets EVERY criteria of the perfect domain name. Clear, specific, generic product, .com, highly searched, memorable and much more. The other great thing, it is for sale and at a price that I think is very fair.
Domain names have sold in the seven figure range and many sell in the mid to high six figure range that I think do not meet the demand and offer the options the domain name Plans.com offers!
Plans.com is currently for sale at the buy it now price of $150,000 and let me explain why I think it is priced right and will pay for itself in a short time frame.
A domain name is VITAL because of it’s keyword. The internet is powered by keywords. When you take a single word domain name like Plans.com and you use other options you have available to you in development, this is where Plans.com exceeds.
The keyword Plans by itself allows the owner to approach the category of plans from any angle they wish. For two reasons, using sub-domains makes Plans.com an extremely powerful domain name in search engines and user friendly with being easy to remember.
People buy all kinds of plans online. People search for all kinds of plans online. Having a matching domain name to what people "search for" and relevant content to the matching domain term are two vital things for SEO and getting your website ranking very well in search engines for the specific term.
Sub-domains is one very important aspect that makes the Plans.com domain name so vital and valuable IMO. Why? Because there are so many different kinds of plans and by owning Plans.com, you cover them ALL! One domain, covers the entire category!
You could own HomePlans.com but what if people type in HousePlans.com? If you own HomePlans.com, you really need to own HousePlans.com . Both expensive domains!
Owning the single term Plans.com and using sub-domains allows you to excel past all the domains in the category, while still matching what people are looking for. You will be funneling all traffic to One Source (plans.com), which is also a great plus in SEO. One busy site = better rankings for your keywords!
Here are some vital keywords that you can match exactly using sub-domains with Plans.com:
- house.plans.com
- home.plans.com
- garage.plans.com
- deck.plans.com
- shed.plans.com
- building.plans.com
- floor.plans.com
- furniture.plans.com
- cabinet.plans.com
- construction.plans.com
- cottage.plans.com
- workbench.plans.com
- boat.plans.com
- woodworking.plans.com
- trailer.plans.com
- picnictable.plans.com
- bench.plans.com
- barn.plans.com
Well, I guess you get my point! I could keep going on and on with endless amounts of keywords that people search for and what you can provide them with the domain name Plans.com . You can work with affiliates or offer all different kinds of plans directly.
Online ordering with easy downloads and the site can run on autopilot! No expensive overhead needed with a warehouses full of products. Hard copy blueprints are small if needed to ship.
Plans.com is a great domain name, fairly priced at $150K with massive amounts of development potential. Extreme branding potential that covers a whole category with near instant trust built in. Creating a brand with Plans.com can be done and becoming the leader in the Plans category can be done with the domain name Plans.com!
Plans.com is a great domain name that should highly be considered at the current offering price for reasons I explained above, plus many more! The domain name is currently listed for sale on PremiumDomains.com .
*I was not paid to write this article if you were wondering.
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I like your logic, the problem that I have is a hypothetical one and is this… How many companies with highly successful subdomains do you know of? I like the logic, I just don’t see it working that often (although I agree that I think it should).
Rephrasing the question would be this, how many examples can you find of a subdomain ranking really high on Google for a major search term compared to the number of major websites that have sub domains?
Jamie Zoch
I see sub-domains ranking A LOT at the top of SE’s. Do a search on Google for the term maps once. 2 of the top 3 listings are sub-domains. NationalGeographics.com has 2 P1 listings using a Sub-domain for maps as well. Sites like About.com, Yahoo.com and many, many more use sub-domains to the fullest. Do a search on Google for the term omg and you will notice omg.yahoo.com ranks #1 . Start searching for geo specific items and you will often see sub-domains ranking high. I also see sites like MSNBC use nothing but Sub-domains to promote it’s shows etc. Do a search for the term business school and you will notice 6 of the top 10 listings are Sub-domains…
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That was only pulling a couple terms off the top of my head. Another thing you will notice are companies using Sub-domains in Ads to match the users search term. Another strong benefit to the domain Plans.com . You can have exact matches to each search term if you wish.
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But “Maps” is not that competitive of a term. There was only 1 adwords advertiser when I just checked it. Also, I don’t think that Google and Yahoo should count=) Their “maps” software is very popular and they are Google and Yahoo.
I agree that I do see subdomains ranking for local searches with companies like Service Magic but that is probably the most that I see.
No matter how awesome the domain name “Plans.com” is, I think you would have a very tough fight getting Business.Plans.com to rank for “business plans”, but I would actually be happy to be wrong. I just think the competition would be very great.
Again, I am not really disagreeing much with you, I think your idea is great, I just rarely see it implemented successfully using a competitive key word or phrase.
Troy
Anunt
Sorry…but plans.com is not worth $150k.
Plans.com was sold just last year for $70k.
Instead of explaining all the crap about sub-domains…show me the numbers!
If you can show me that plans.com is making an average of $2500/month for the last 12 months from that parking page, i will buy it for $150k.
marko
sorry not worth a quarter of the price, too confusing a keyword,and as other comments sub doms do not rate that high
Sammy Ashouri
You can definitely do much better for the price. Plans.com is a cool domain to own, but not for that price. There are better bargains out there.
Francois
Anunt:
The one who sell his name for less than 25 years ppc is an idiot!!!
$2,500 * 300 months (25 years) = $750k
This simply means to generate the same passive monthly revenue the seller should place $750k into a bank account (at 4%, usual bank rate).
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This premium name is really well priced for an end-user and has a lot of development potential for a investor willing to buy to create a site.
Curvee
To me 150k is a optimistic price, with such cash you can pick up to 5 good names that will give a nice ROI within 3 years.
Best of luck in your Plan to sell Plan.
chris robbins
This may not be a “paid post” but I’m assuming you are either the owner of plans.com or you would gain an affiliate commission if someone purchased it through you. Why else would you buy a sponsored listing on Domaining.com? Under the new FCC rules that would have to be stated in the blog post, but it hasn’t gone into effect yet so you’re ok, lol. And from what I read they won’t be policing blogs anyway, just relying on competitors to turn them in. As for the PremiumDomains affiliate payout structure, I’m completely baffled by it. I don’t understand how they can payout 60% of the sale profit.
Jamie Zoch
@Chris,
Nope, I do not own Plans.com . I did not use an affiliate link. The owner of PremiumDomains.com also owns Domaining.com, so it would make sense for him to make the post a Sponsored Listing, as it promotes a domain name they have for sale with doing very little work. I wrote about the domain name because I like it, I think it has great development potential and I think it is fairly priced for the amount of potential it holds. “Domainers” may think the $150K is high or crazy or whatever, but I know the people that read DotWeekly as well and I wanted to share the domain and why I like it.
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Yes, let’s look at a competitive term like, “finance”.
Look at the subdomains ranking in the top 10 for that term.
Subdomains have their use. I think Jamie was trying to make that point in this post and I think he did a good job of it.
chris robbins
Duh, I totally missed that. I still don’t understand the 60% affiliate commission payout, lol.
BullS
Instead of talking and dreaming about it, just buy the domain name…Jamie!!
Francois
Chris, the 60% you are talking about is clearly explained I think in the PremiumDomains.com affiliate page.
What do you not understand and what shock you?
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I confirm Jamie comment, he is not a PremiumDomains.com affiliate, nor he is paid for the post.
For the story, Jamie contacted me a pair of days ago saying he would like to make a post about a premium name he found interesting and well priced at PremiumDomains.com
I put his post as a sponsored as indirectly it promotes our premium marketplace.
For a reason I ignore very few bloggers use to talk about our domain services so when one do it and without asking anything it’s the minimum I can do, give him my thanks and sponsor his post at no charge.
Clara
Hi, can explain the difference between businessplans.com and business.plans.com? Which one is consider a sub-domain and why?
Thanks for answering in advance. =)
Jamie Zoch
@Clara
Business. is a sub-domain of Plans.com . Anything to the left of the actual domain name is considered a sub-domain. Even www is a sub-domain. BusinessPlans.com is an actual domain name, where as business.plans.com , business becomes a sub-domain name of Plans.com. Hope that helps.