One-word Domains

I recently picked up lived.info: 20,000,000 Google hits but no paid advertising.

Yes, I know; paid advertising is a good indicator of how well a domain will monetize. On the other hand, the term gets a lot of hits.

I'm not sure how lived.info could play out as a financial venture, though I could see a genealogy website possibility.

I look forward to some day snagging a one-word domain without its being plural (jennifers.tv , critiques.tv, and Bonuses.tv), past tense like "lived," or a gerund (Rescuing.mobi). I suspect I won't find such pristine domains in GoDaddy's fire sale or as a regular reg.

A pretty good four-word dot-com: NoFeeStudentLoans.com. I would not pay a huge aftermarket price for such a long domain name, but maybe I'll change my mind once I see how it does traffic-wise. Also, not a lot of Google hits--about 2,000--but the paid sponsor list goes on for three pages. But it was a small investment for a term that rolls easily off the tongue.

After a month of so-so traffic, 1-25.com has suddenly picked up significant traffic, 20 hits in one day; I was scratching my head, when my husband informed me that it's football season, so it's possible that I'm getting some type-in traffic from football fans.

This would be a great Top 25 of everything site, perhaps a user-generated site/forum. Hmmmm.

Domaining is habit-forming, I'm afraid. I need to get cracking on developing some of these sites.