MikeRibby

How do you guys feel about "City" .us names?

Are they worth it if you can get buy them cheap of hand reg or stay away all together?

Thanks in advance!

Have a great day!

JB Lions

Depends on the city.

homebuyer

I think the typical user would initially think that they are government sites. Remember how the .us started off. I doubt that anyone would type in the .us city name in a browser's title bar either.

I had the .com owner of one of my old city.us domains buy up the .info and .biz. He wouldn't go more than $100 for my .us, even though his .com site is big and expensive, and he wanted to corner the market, so to speak.

Purchasing one is up to how much money you can tie up in a domain. You might want to assume you will be holding on to it for years before you get any kind of appreciable return on it.

You might also want to consider first how many .us cities are there and compare it to how many non-government sites are up?
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/cctld-discussion/744629-us-city-names.html

In the end, unelss you come across a highly energized and motivate buyer on a mission from god, good luck with selling the .us domain altogether.

duodec

There was an article sometime in the last week or two about owners of 'big' city domain names (chicago.com and nyc.com specifically) monetizing by selling email addresses in that domain, and setting up infrastructure to do that for other major city domains. They forward to the actual email service (gmail, etc)
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=744629

Apparently 'joe at chicago dot com' or 'miller at nyc dot com' are addresses that some would pay good ($$$$) money for.

Assuming infrastructure I wonder if the same might hold true (at much lower $ amounts of course) in smaller cities/towns (or state names, park names, region names, other Geo's) in .US... you could always advertise the 'Go American!' aspect of a .us over a .com. But I don't know what kind of infrastructure would be needed...

The article pointed out they also sold subdomains in those premium city name dot coms. Perhaps a small local business with a name already taken in the desirable TLDs might like the idea of 'businessname.smalltown.us' as an affordable option. Yeah .com might be better still but again, a 'local' business might not need the difference in perception.

Found it.

If something like this can be built and marketed effectively it might positively affect the values and reasons for owning the better small Geo .US domains.

HeyNow

I'm looking into this now. I'm the owner of Chicago.us, and have a trademark on it.

MikeRibby

Very interesting...

nameflake

I like that idea.