Fantasy Football Is Not The Only Fantasy In Town
Fantasy Football (FF) is not new, after all I started playing it in 1997 when I took a rookie named Corey Dillon and everyone thought I was crazy. That marked the beginning of my years of total ownage in this mouse-potato game. In the past few years it has grown absolutely huge, and there is plenty of money involved both online and offline. Offline FF is fun. It’s like herding wet cats, but it’s fun.
Justin over at NameBio is hosting a league this year. I’m excited to participate and look forward to some good times.
But this post isn’t entirely about FF, as everyone is familiar with it by now.
To round out the big four of sports, fantasy basketball and hockey are played, but not hugely popular. Fantasy baseball is more widespread, but is still not even close to touching football. I don’t see these three becoming any more or less popular anytime soon.
Other sports that have joined the fun are golf, soccer, wrestling and auto racing. But they haven’t shown continuous growth.
There are a few that have been steadily growing, such as cricket, tennis, rugby and fishing, as shown in this Google Trends report. Sure, they won’t reach anything close to FF’s height, but you don’t need to work with the top dog to make money.
Though FF has spawned fantasy games in other sports, you will find the biggest uphill trend in non-sport fantasy games.
Do you cheer when a bill is passed? Then perhaps Fantasy Congress is the game for you. Yea, you read that right.
Movie junkie (like me)? Then join the Fantasy Mogul league.
When an athlete commits a crime, are you always saying “I KNEW it was a matter of time before he got caught firing off a gun at a nightclub” ? Well, then this sports criminal fantasy league is for you.
Celebrity hound? Well there’s plenty out there for you, such as this.
Everyone loves music. So obviously there would be a league for that too.
Expect a growing trend of non-sport fantasy leagues. Spouses of FF gamers will want to offset the craziness with something of their own. I can see this trend getting bigger and bigger.
So, (most) domainers don’t have the skills to create fantasy leagues from scratch. The thing to sell here is information. Fantasy gamers eat it up. They aren’t satisfied with getting info from just one site, they go from site to site digesting everything they can. They want to win and are willing to do an awful lot to make sure that they do, including spending money. They will pay for information. They will buy guides and excel spreadsheets. All you need to do is get ranked by Google.
With that said, the corresponding domain names should work as well. Most of this would be generic keywords, so trademarks shouldn’t be a problem. Try formats like:
- XXXXFantasy.com
- XXXXFantasyLeague(s).com
- XXXXFantasyGuide(s).com
- XXXXFantasyHelp.com
- XXXXFantasyDraft.com
- XXXXFantasyCheatsheet(s).com
- XXXXFantasyTips.com
- XXXXFantasyPicks.com
- XXXXFantasyGame.com
- XXXXDraft.com
- XXXXDraftHelp.com
- XXXXGuide(s).com
- XXXXFAQ.com
- XXXXLeague(s).com
Know what I want to see? A Domain Name Fantasy League. I know I’m not the first, because someone has already registered all the best appropriate domains and they’re all parked. I was still able to register a couple: DomainingLeague.com and DNFantasyGame.com.
Instead of predicting stats, you can predict domain sales. The more accurate you are, the more points you win. Why has someone not done this yet? Domainers love to predict sales. They love to speculate on how much a domain is worth. Sports are seasonal. Not domaining; this is year-round. You can make the seasons as long as you want.
Someone will have the time and resources to do this, and it will be a hit.
You heard it here first.
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As always, awesome ideas Scott. In a lot of ways I think many domain owners are already addicted to playing ‘domaining fantasy’ especially when it comes to their domain investment strategies in the real world. =)
The domain industry could stand to have a little more ‘domainer entertainment’, so good luck to whoever gets this off the ground.
Also, FUSU.com (the domain stock exchange) kind of feels domain fantasy’ish…
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Thanks Jamie. Those were my thoughts exactly. Domainers are addicted to the process and a different outlet could be some fun.
I suppose FUSU.com is the closest thing we have, but no one uses it. And that’s because no one knows about it or understands it.
-Scott