CNN Money’s Top 100 Places To Live And Why Dickinson.com Sucks As A Geodomain
CNN Money has posted their top 100 best places to live in the U.S. This is an indispensable article for the geodomainer. Not only is it a wealth of information, CNN Money exposes and reinforces the trends to make them stronger.
How do they decide what the best places are? Affordable housing, leisure activities, cultural options, job growth, crime rate, sunniness and health care among others. A good set of qualities to judge a city on. Perhaps not perfect- I’m a stormy weather kind of fella, not sunny- but I think it’s in line with the common perception.
Lets take the top city: Middleton, Wisconsin. Obviously they’re doing something right to place at the top of the list. Even so, now that CNN Money has labeled them the best place to live, you can bet everything on their tourism and real estate industries increasing… by a lot. If you lived near the top city, wouldn’t you want to check it out if you haven’t already done so? I would.
The absolute best part is that these city’s .coms can most likely be acquired at bargain prices. I’m curious to see how much Dickinson.com will go for at Bido’s auction. One of the selling points I’ve seen for this domain is the size of the city Dickinson, Texas. I work just 10 miles from Dickinson, Texas and can tell you that you do NOT want to use this as a geodomain. The place is a hole. The entire area is a hole. I’ll take any of the below cities over Dickinson.com as a geodomain.
Stick with Dickinson as a surname.
Back to the list! You can sort towns in many different ways here. Want to buy a .com of a city with high household incomes? Not a problem. How about a geodomain that focuses on the health industry? Sort by health care access. This list is great!
Here are some great ways to sort this list:
- Top-earning towns
- Hottest towns
- Priciest homes
- Most singles
- Youngest
- Job growth
- Affordable housing
- Plentiful leisure activities
- Plentiful cultural options
- Sunny weather
- Short commute time
- Good health care access
- Skinniest
- Clean Air
And, here are the top 10 places to live in the U.S.:
- Middleton, Wisconsin
- Hanover, New Hampshire
- Louisville, Colorado
- Lake Mary, Florida
- Claremont, California
- Papillion, Nebraska
- Milton, Massachusetts
- Chaska, Minnesota
- Nether Providence, Pennsylvania
- Suwanee, Georgia
Want a geodomain that would be great for a social network for singles?
- State College, Pennsylvania
- Durham, New Hampshire
- Amherst Center, Massachusetts
- Storrs, Connecticut
- Oxford, Ohio
- Stanford, California
- East Lansing, Michigan
- Indiana, Pennsylvania
- Blacksburg, Virginia
- Geneseo, New York
Notice something? They’re all college towns. Stanford, Miami U, UConn, Penn State and Michigan State are great schools and would be perfect to focus a geodomain on.
If you’re a geodomainer, this is a great tool for informing yourself before you buy. Boomark it!
EDIT:
This is the 2007 list. You can find the 2008 list here. And here is the post explaining my blunder.
Related:Geodomains Can Be Pulled From Kiplinger’s Best Cities Of 2008
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