Intuitive domain names

Intuitive domain names are domain names based on generic words (not proper names or tradenames) which a user may use to make up a likely website name which he looks for on the internet in case that website exists and is relevant to what the word means. Examples are http://www.carhire.com when looking for information AbOUT car hire, or http://www.rebreather.com for a scuba diver who is looking for information about rebreather scuba sets. Some such website names have sold for very high sums: the highest known such prices (as at April 2007) are $3,000,000 for http://loans.com and $5,500,000 for http://business.com .

Related are obvious website names made from names of organizations, for example http://www.nasa.gov for NASA.

To be distinguished are "typo squatting" and "likely mistake squatting", for example, when looking for NASA, guessing at http://www.nasa.com leads to the unrelated television firm "North American Search Authority".

See also direct navigation.