These are a big waste of time. They're basically just subdomains being passed off as real domains. Domainers tend to avoid them, while actual end users and small companies buy them in place of .com or .us.
The mastermind behind this is really pulling in some cash for this, but these names aren't attractive to most domainers.
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I acquired Emage.us not too long ago. I don't have intentions to sell it and plan on running an image host site on it. I think it would be easy to drive traffic to this domain because of it's brandable.
I'm not a fan of us.com subdomains myself, but there have been some reported sales and there are quite a number of small businesses and even bigger ones who use us.com or uk.com subdomains.
Here are the reported sales I could find on Namebio and DNSalePrice :
"Double extensions" ??? What are you talking about ?
British domain names are third-level registrations taken under .co.uk (or .org.uk).
The .co.uk is hugely popular and successful in the UK and most British businesses and foreign companies doing business in the UK would much rather have a .co.uk domain rather than a .com
What makes .com better than .co.uk in many cases is that it's a global TLD while .co.uk is a ccTLD.
If you're targetting the UK market, .co.uk is excellent, but it's surely less good for other markets or if you're trying to build an international brand.
If .co.uk is very strong, I think that .de (the German extension) is actually even stronger (even more domains registered, even more widely used in Germany).
I'm not saying that the .co.uk isnt a good ext, I own around 25% of my portfolio in .co.uk but I find most of my traffic comes from .com and .net - being type-in traffic - Other sites that I do have in .co.uk do generated UK only traffic.
.de is a good extension but I dont personally own any .de domains so I cant comment on this, just remember that this is my thoughts only.
Thank you for your reply,
Regards,
Robbie
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I meant aesthetically, don't like the double dots and four characters, like I said, totally legit extension that I trust but dont like the looks of it or having to type the extra chars.
To domainers it can look 'long' as the business is dealing in names day in day out , however it does not alter the value at all (unlike a persistant muppet on here was trying to argue on a different thread).
It is like saying the word Porche is uglier than Ferrari and thus the value is less
Going back on topic, I would be very very wary of fake domain names / sub delegated names that do not have a stable registrar and government behind it and the like.
Obviously like most things it is a case of weighing up the risk v returns, but for Name.us.com I would see it as cash down the drain.
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So you're saying it's impossible to register a domain.uk ? why? I understand now that it was one of the earilest domain tlds but what's with the co. or ltd. or whatever. It reminds me of that us.com hack where the owner bought a 2 letter domain and is now offering subdomain accounts.
I would much prefer domain.uk or as you suggest, domain.gb. However, .uk looks much more UKish but I am also aware gb stands for.
You are right, it is not possible to purchase .uk directly from the domainer point of view.
.CO.UK is for commercial , and .LTD.UK is for limited companies. The .CO.UK is open for all comers whereas the .LTD.UK is restricted to those with a company number.
The reason for *why* is a tricky one but basically I believe it is that .UK would be too open and further categorization was required eg. .SCH.UK for schools.
It is interesting to see that for North America they have had to use .NET (.net.uk) .EDU (.sch.uk) .COM (.co.uk) and the like to cover the same bases, and if every country in the world did similar it would be unworkable.
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But still for some reason, the uk.com subdomains (similar to us.com and operated by Centralnic too) are fairly popular in the UK.
Not nearly as much as .co.uk obviously, but there are still quite a large number of small businesses and even a few big ones in the UK which use these uk.com subdomains.
.us.com - Does anyone use this? 
