October 2007

1. You are an active person in the domain name Polish community, with a reputed forum, domaintalk.pl, and a blog, domeny.nee.pl. When did you start them and how much time do you spend on them ? Is the traffic growing ?

I have started DomainTalk.pl in December 2006. In the beginning, it was taking all my free time, now I'm only managing, doing SERP and waiting for active visitors... That was the first Polish community/information center about domain names only. I had troubles connected with my host and I have lost some visitors then. From that time, the forum is not working like I would like to. It could be a lot better.

2. What are their main motivations of Polish domainers: parking domains, developping websites or buying in order to sell later at a higher price? How big is the community of Polish domainers ?

I think that most PL domainers want to earn from buying and selling good names, fast. But many domainers which waiting are also waiting for better times to sell their names. it's currently good, but it should be better, for example with LLL.pl.

Regarding the number of active Polish domainers, I can just tell you that between February & October 2007, I had 34.295 Visits. For sure all of the visitors were on my forum intentionally. You can figure out the size of our community. Of course, that's not all.

3. Is it the right time for foreign domainers to invest in Polish domain names? What kind of domain names and extensions would you recommend?

Yes, I think it's the best time to invest in Polish domain names. All name's prices are raising and for sure that will be bigger soon. Polish domain market is growing fast. For sure it's profitable to invest in Polish domain names.

Polish names values in each TLD is presenting like this: .pl (main Polish TLD, most valuable in our market) > .com > .net > .eu > .org > .biz > .info. Like on the global DN market, generic, short (1,2,3 letters), brandable and names connected with popular events are valuable. 2 letters domains' value is above xxxx PLN (even 30 000 PLN and more). 3 letters is similiar, but above xxx PLN obviously it depends on the industries/businesses with the given abbreviation. Prices for our Polish (.pl) domains are achieving even xxx.xxx PLN. Some examples of high-priced sales are(approx. prices):

- budujemy.pl - 10.000 pln

- orange.pl - 150.000 EUR

- n.pl - 200.000 pln