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Flowers.moe

The word flowers by itself is typed in searches approximately 2.2 millions per month.

Moe (moh-ay) means "cute" in Japanese, per http://nic.moe/en/

What does everyone think?

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Never heard of moe before - have there been any sales? Does it receive any traffic? I would say it's worth $0+(yearly revenue * (1 to 3))
 
Godaddy reckons moe means passion (https://www.godaddy.com/tlds/moe-domain).

Can't claim to know much about anime, manga, etc but unless there's been some aftermarket sales of .moe domains I'd say it isn't worth anything.

Alternatively, and fingers crossed for you, you're ahead of the game and you've nabbed yourself a premium .moe :)
 
I could understand flowers."place"

Flowers.London
Flowers.NYC
Flowers.Paris

Since .moe isn't a place (not sure what is it tbh) and it's not probably going to be trendy to use for a new company like .co or a game like .io, can't see it being worth much, but who knows
 
You're relying on a Venn diagram:

- People interested in flowers
- People interested in quite a specific aspect of Japanese culture ("moe" is a very nuanced word, and it takes quite a deep understanding to grasp it - it's also not an entirely positive word, any more than something like "otaku" would be i.e. people who experience "moe" might feel it to be positive, but the general Japanese public wouldn't particularly agree)
- People who understand new extensions

Only those people who fit in the intersection of all 3 of the above categories will have any chance at all of understanding the domain, and even there "moe" isn't in any way a natural fit with "flowers" (two languages, completely unconnected terms). So as a domain name meant to serve a mass market, it falls flat on its face.

I would agree with the assessment that the domain name itself is worthless. Especially when you consider that it's £20+ a year! So it's a premium-priced but very obscure extension, used very poorly.

My advice would be to let it expire and forget it. Chalk it up as a learning experience.

It looks like you're based in Australia. The local domain market's fairly resilient and there have been some modestly promising sales, so why not concentrate your focus on the .com.au and sell locally? Plus the shorter .au may be on its way soon, so there's the potential for a bit of excitement there (though it also may be a flop like .uk)
 
BTW, "moe" doesn't mean "cute". Or not in the way you're probably thinking it does. The main term for "cute" in Japanese is "kawaii" - "kawaii" is mega-huge in Japan, and it doesn't have any of the possible negative connotations of "moe".

It's no good relying on the registry's own definition - they're trying to sell the extension, after all. If you really want to pursue the matter and not simply let the domain drop, it would be better for you to do your own research. I'm very confident it will back up what I posted above.
 
Additional info: there are only just over 6,000 .moe domains registered, of which only about 300 have been registered so far in 2017 (hope flowers.moe was your only one, otherwise you'll quickly start to contribute a meaningful % to that increase!)
https://ntldstats.com/tld/moe

That means you're more likely to see a pig fly than you are to come across one used in commerce.

Which in turns means there's nothing at all promoting the extension because nobody's doing any marketing for it (unlike .co.uk for example, which is used by millions of active businesses, or .com which is used by tens or hundreds of millions of businesses)
 

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