I'm keen to get some perspective from members on the importance of domains in adult. I haven't run any adult sites myself. Dabbled once with a dating site. Have also bought and sold some adult domains, including on this forum. Helped Evan in putting together a deal on the last HuntingMoon auction which was a $6k sale, but I have the impression that was a bit of an outlier. I could be wrong. Many more domains change hands that go unreported than those that are.
In mainstream biz, commercial keyword domains for high-margin products and services typically command higher $ sales than something like, e.g. - YourMomsBlog.com, for obvious reasons.
But I have no idea how much bling people are making on adult websites, or how deep the opportunities are. I can tell you that adult PPC on parked domains is shit
I don't mean to lead the discussion into the finer points of adult webmastering and how to make money, but rather as a preface to my question, just how important is the domain name to you?
Do you consider the domain important for traffic generation? SEO? Branding? All of the above? Other aspects? Do you consider to buy premium domains, or just look for whatever is available and not spend more than registration fee? If the former, what's the most you've ever spent on a domain? Do you think it helped you make more money in the long run vs. if you had built on a less than quality domain? Would love to see some thoughts on this topic for discussion.