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Just regged a cool July.cc ! Maybe could be a travel site?

Frank

Abstracts.tv said:

Just regged a cool July.cc ! Maybe could be a travel site?

Frank

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It probably could, or a site for summer activities, camps, water parks, etc.

IB

IntelBank said:

It probably could, or a site for summer activities, camps, water parks, etc.

IB

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Yeah! Great Ideas Intel! Ps: For Sale!Accepting offers!

Frank

Just grabbed crap.cc on a drop :tu:

Someone just sold dine.cc for $600 at afternic bazaar

I am a .cc fan also. I saw notebooks.cc auction off at TDNam yesterday for 450. I had the top bid at 125 with one minute left to go. Then 2 bidders came out of nowhere and proceeded bid like heck up to about 450. I am sure athe cc's are going to take off soon. Land is land no matter where it is located. It will always sell if it is beach front property (premium). Reg fee prices will probably be the most determining factor whether the CC CCTLD takes off or not IMO. Surprisingly, I have a few dot cc's making decent ppc revenue.

i have thus.cc

I thought I'm not gonna reg. anymore .cc but I couldn't help myself

I just regged videocam .cc

sparkplug said:

Just grabbed crap.cc on a drop :tu:

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Ha nice pun :yell:

Whoops, no pun intended. Butt I'll take when I can get (pun intended).

Who buys the .cc names? End-users or other domainers? Are they more popular in any specific countries? I have a few good .cc domain names. I wondered if it is better to develop them in English or not.

I did a quick Google search of what was developed out there in .cc domains. The results surprised me! These are the ones with pages over 100k:

about 2,380,000 English pages
about 1,080,000 Japanese pages
about 829,000 Chinese (Traditional) pages
about 517,000 German pages
about 496,000 Korean pages
about 405,000 Turkish pages
about 388,000 Arabic pages
about 383,000 Chinese (Simplified) pages
about 366,000 Thai pages
about 308,000 Swedish pages
about 270,000 Spanish pages
about 249,000 Russian pages
about 249,000 Italian pages
about 237,000 French pages
about 218,000 Polish pages
about 111,000 Vietnamese pages

I guess the moral of the story is: Don't neglect other languages. Put up a page or two for as many of these languages as you can. If you want to attract end-users and increase your exposure (leading to a sale), the majority of the .cc domains are not necessarily for English speakers. And these non-English speakers obviously register and use dot CC domains, too!

Add a Japanese and a Chinese page to double your exposure and chance of a sale. Or go the easy route and try French, Spanish, Italian, and German.

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.cc with OVT term over 3 million

Is a .cc worth the purchase if the OVT for the "two word" domain is over 3 million in online searches?

Or what about if you found something for .cc to stand for, such as carboncopy.cc (taken) and the two word domain in mind had an OVT over 300,000?

Purchased carpart.ws (carpart.website) sometime ago, being it was nearly the last extension available, and it has an ovt over 500,000. Was told it would only be worth something with development.

Just trying to see if the same would apply to a .cc with ovt over 3 million.

Thanks.

Yeah, there's definitely an international interest in the extension. My sap.cc gets 88% of its traffic from Chinese type-ins.

Something I noticed while using the URDNG to check available .cc names is that there are a ton of obscure words taken in the .cc extension but not in any gTLDs (including .com). For example, neighborlinesses.cc is taken, but "neighborlinesses" is available in every other TLD. Other examples include "macebearers", "federalizes", and "supplicated".

Any ideas as to what could be causing this? While I do think .cc is hypeworthy, I find it hard to imagine it would be so hypeworthy that .com and other gTLDs would become secondary to it.

My guess is that they are Chinese. Or tasters.

Do you have any Chinese pages? If not, you may be 'leaving money on the table' (to use a cliche). Consider paying someone a few bucks to create one Chinese homepage link and a Chinese language page. It could pay off.

BurnsInternet said:

My guess is that they are Chinese. Or tasters.

Do you have any Chinese pages? If not, you may be 'leaving money on the table' (to use a cliche). Consider paying someone a few bucks to create one Chinese homepage link and a Chinese language page. It could pay off.

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Provided one speaks Chinese I've tried the translation services to take a text into Chinese for a parked site that had 100% Chinese traffic - it turned out to be a disastrous move as the translation meant anything but what i had written in English. :lol: There's a market for a Chinese <-> English translator on NP.

M.

Plenty of Chinese speakers at idnclub.com and IDNF who will do that for you. Maybe even DNF? Not sure about that one.

Yeah there is someone at DNF that does this. I don't know if we are allowed to link to threads over there, but his username dnol.

Check out this ebay auction...http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=260197916159

DEW.cc
BYE.cc
OWN.cc

All three for went $406 total. Pretty sad.

Wow! That really is unbelievable! How long has .cc been available?

I have no idea, but I remember them being available like 6 years ago, unless I'm mistaken. Wikipedia says it was assigned October 1997, but I don't know when they actually made them available.

I think that, for the most part, the .cc domains out there are probably top keywords. It may be difficult to develop average to good dot cc domains and receive traffic. Is this accurate?

I've never tried to develop one, so I wouldn't know. I would think if you had a good site and did enough promotion, any extension would be ok. But I'm the wrong person to answer. I just buy and sell domains and try to make a profit.

I'm terrible at web development. You could give me google.com and within six months it would be dead.

I have a few .cc domains. The domain names have excellent trends and statistics but the .cc hurts them. No one types in .cc domain names. They go with other extensions.

Порно.cc search trends for Порно: http://www.google.com/trends?q=Порно&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

Prêt.cc & Prêts.cc search trends: http://www.google.com/trends?q=Prêt,+Prêts&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

The search trends on .cc tell the story: http://www.google.com/trends?q=".cc"&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

Top ten .cc searches by language:

1. Romanian
2. German
3. Swedish
4. Dutch
5. Chinese
6. English
7. Italian
8. Spanish
9. French
10. Japanese


Top ten .cc searches by country:

1. Austria
2. Chile
3. Taiwan
4. Romania
5. Germany
6. UnitedKingdom
7. Sweden
8. Switzerland
9. Netherlands
10. Australia

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Very conclusive and interesting post! Rep+

I'll be posting another available list tomorrow. (LLL.cc)

M.

Thanks, Mike. Stats can help us make better decisions. I hope.