idscreening.com
idscan.us
idwatch.us

Appraisals please...

...ing?
appropriateness of .us?

ing - Yep gerund forms are a killer. Sellable domains are those that keep it at the basic form of the verb. However, "idscreening" is a bit of a different case. It has a nounish quality to it -- is that making sense?

Anyways at first I thought the domain would lack in purpose but a Google search yielded some ideas.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...d+screening%22

"Id screening" describes a security related product. That should make it sellable....however in another note "id screening" would not be a good fit for a site selling such a service. It would be more natural to operate under the brand site.

Im leaning towards giving this domain a lacking significant value appraisal. But I'll hold back. Its a tough one because it meets the criteria for being a good domain (it describes a product) but its main problem is the term itself is just so mundane that the value suffers because end-users would just prefer to sell under the company name instead.

.us - I make this comment for every non-tier 1 term that ends with a .us extension. The market isn't strong enough now to support the domains you are holding.

Thanks for the detailed and insightful analysis, and want you to know that I'm on the same page w/ you. I post appraisal requests more for the feedback, (and yours is excellent), then for precisely determining a names's value. (Figuring end-user value, in particular, is almost impossible, particularly in in light of viewing a few lists of recent names that have sold and the figures.)

I don't see these particular .us domains as ready, either, and picked them up based upon their potential. They are relatively short, and as our Orwellian future draws closer, "id", "scan", and "screen(ing)" are going to become more common place. "Watch", fits the the overall security theme.

All 3 of these names are actually the result of an extensive "rfid" (radio frequency identification) search. RFID technology has been around for awhile, but until recently, it's application has been limited. Soon, this technology will be used to track cattle and livestock (Mad Cow Disease), will support (if not replace) the barcode, and has already been used successfully at tollbooths on the east coast , for scanning automobiles to to let a computer know who just passed by so the computer will know what credit card to debit for the toll fee. (BTW, might be interesting to get a new-tech thread going- have done a little specialization in this area, including Nano, LED (used as a light source), RFID, Genome, and a few "Cryo", "Bio" and other misc.bio-tech prefix/suffix terms

Interesting grammatical analysis of "screening", and I do see the "nounishness" of the word. I regged this one "on the come", as well, because of obvious topical value in addition to the above stated reasons.

Thanks for the link. I almost always do searches before purchasing a name, but didn't this time, because I had been concentrating on RFID, and because of beleiving the subject matter that is attached to these names, is strong enough to eventually balance out of the weaknesses that I was going to find. :weight:

idscan.us
best of the lot. hold out for GOOD profit with this name.