Associated Geogenerics Dot Com

The assumption is that an economy that is in trouble will necessarily put more importance on the more local economies. A world economy crisis will “degenerate” into national economies and a national economy crisis will result in more individual reliance on the local economy. Eventually it will break down into geographically based economies that would range in locality from “everything west of the Rocky Mountains” to “only things in my immediate neighborhood” and encompassing everything in between.
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We’ve been modifying the wp-shoppingcart plugin which can be found at “instinct.co.nz”. We are making it so that it can be used for our purposes which the standard version isn’t. We have a few purposes which we need a shopping cart for.
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We have a lot of data concerning the registrations of geo-generic dot coms. We took the top 600 cities in the USA/Canada/Australia/UK/NZ and 300 generics which makes about 200,000 domains. We queried whois to get owners, registration dates, etc and put the results into a database which we can make queries on.

This yields some interesting results like which generics were registered first (as a group), which cities had a given number of geo-generics registered first or by a certain date and other interesting stuff. We have published some of our findings on other sites but we intend to put them on this site as well and will shortly.

We use wordpress and a whole bunch of wordpress plugins to develop our sites. Other people are using our setup and the plugins that we develop and people have asked us which plugins we are using in our efforts. So here is a partial list which we will add to as necessary.
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Our first domain that we will be auctioning is “PuebloHomeSales.com” and we are going to examine what the worth of this domain might be to an end user. This is not the same as what do we think it will sell for or anything at all to do with the auction selling price but simply to be able to detail to an end user what the domain name might be worth to them as a business asset.
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During this planning stage of our auctions we are considering whether to guarantee a price for someone who commissions us to sell their domain. In another niche we wouldn’t bother with that incentive but we are wondering if there is any possibilty of having something resembling a pricing guideline for the different geo-generics.
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The benefits will be both many and diverse, to what extent depends on how we set it up - what our goals are. We are speaking as geo-generic domain owners who are part of the Association, at the moment the only ones but we have the same interests as anyone else who owners one or more geo-generic domains and so we feel that outlining what we would like to see this association become is somewhat indicative of what others would and will want as well.

Money would be nice, for a start. If Associated Geo-generics Dot Com offers me some money as an incentive for having a developed site as opposed to a parked page then that would please me. How much money we will talk about but in general money would make a nice component of the benefit package. What else?
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There are only a relatively few pure geo names and only a small portion of them are for sale. The number of pure geos (like vancouver.com) that are for sale will undoubtedly continue to shrink as they are developed. Beyond that, the value of the pure geo will be high, even for an undeveloped domain. We suppose there is value in a pure geo (speaking in the city sense, not the state or county) where there is any sort of population - we would go so far as to say that even a village/town of 1000 people is worth quite a bit more than the registration price, as long as it is a “dot com” - unless otherwise stated we are always speaking of sites with the “.com” extension.

However, we’re going to make an assumption that there are perhaps 600 cities (in the english speaking world, with a focus on the USA) that might be considered to be a viable pure geo website. We are going to make another assumption and say that maybe 100 or those cities might be available to buy in the next few years. There isn’t really much action in the pure geo domain niche, maybe the prices are newsworthy but certainly there aren’t a lot being sold. The geo-centric domainer’s next best niche is the “geo-generic” one.
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Eventually the Associated Geo-Generics Dot Com association is going to be big enough to purchase some advertising that lets people know of the existing situation which would be one where a person could just type in their currently desired geo-generic domain name and have an excellent chance of finding an appropriately developed website. The goal of the advertising is to make sure that everyone knows this.

Imagine that each member (and there are a potential 200,000 of them) contributed $100 and we could afford a Super Bowl type of commercial and a comprehensive ad campaign to follow. We imagine that an ad like the one described below would be effective and describing it also illustrates the points that would make our association a strong and viable one.
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If things proceed as planned we will be auctioning off geo-generic domains from this site. The first auction is tentatively scheduled for the last week of August but it could happen sooner or a little bit later. There are a few hurdles to clear but at this point it doesn’t look like they will be difficult ones.

There will be a different flavor to our auctions - that is because we have multiple objectives and these objectives will play a part where the bidders are concerned. Our objectives are or will be more fully explained in other areas of this site but we will touch on a few of them while explaining the factors that give our auction its “different flavor”.
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