.us .US - The OFFICIAL Discussion, Showcase and Sales Report Thread

[slaughterbeck]

It appears the domain industry has been starting to take notice of the .us namespace over the past year, read DnJournal.com .us growth and Namepros with even greater expectations for the year to come.

So I thought it would be a good idea to ask everyone to show us your .us domain names. You can post your favorites or your entire portfolio.

 

[Name Trader]

A good unload, sdsinc. Congrats.

 

[Kate]

Thanks. It was priced at a BIN btw, no negotiation took place.

 

[DotUSDomains]

Sold quite a few 3 letter names this year, 5 so far all for over $2000 highest being $4700 1 last week for $3225 all names aquired for less than $60 each 1 for $5.99

plenty good offers coming in but the again i have about 130 decent/good and some very good combos.

nice sale on eat.

 

[kemjika11]

Nice DotUSDomains!!

For those who dont think decent/good LLL.us are good investments, i have one piece of advice for you - stay out of .US.

i am not even going to waste my energy defending some .US domains. if you cant see it then you never will.

 

[Kate]

For those who dont think decent/good LLL.us are good investments, i have one piece of advice for you - stay out of .US.

I actually think they are bad investments
I haven't been very successful with .us... I made a few good sales but the TLD isn't very much alive.

 

[kemjika11]

I actually think they are bad investments
I haven't been very successful with .us... I made a few good sales but the TLD isn't very much alive.

Ha ha ha. i know what you mean,but its a latent but potent extension. America is the richest or 2nd richest nation on earth and purchasing power affects domain prices heavily so in as much i agree that .US doesn't seem "alive", good .us names still have potential.

There are many misconceptions in domaining. The fundamentals say good .US domains are good investments, the lay man's opinion is the .US is dead(kind of like .net!). which side do you believe? :D

 

[Kate]

I think that .us may never take off, it will be an exception as the only ccTLD of a major nation that is shunned by its own population.
PS: there are more .ca registered, than .us domains.
BTW, eat was bought by a Canadian apparently, don't know why

 

[FusionSpy]

I got ahold of DNM (dot) us - Domain Name(s) Market/Marketplace/Media,.. , although .us really isn't strong regarding sales still I think it was worth it, although LLL besides common words aren't really selling that much

 

[kemjika11]

I think that .us may never take off, it will be an exception as the only ccTLD of a major nation that is shunned by its own population.
PS: there are more .ca registered, than .us domains.
BTW, eat was bought by a Canadian apparently, don't know why

what do you mean by taken off? just curious because to me the only way i know a TLD has "taken off" is when general availability of LLLs and NNNs is non-existent OR in very low numbers(and usually crappy combinations) and this has happened with .US already.

Offcourse .cas will be more regged than .US afterall .com is kind of america's ccTLD(the only exception to the ccTLD rule)so it makes sense .us will play second fiddle to .com IN the country that launched .com. But that doesnt inherently mean that .US doesnt have profitability for us domainers.

There is a priceless domaining virtue you might need to show now- patience. Your LLL.us will sell if you wait long enough. I have a few i bought super cheap on this forum and i know i 'll sell them for good $$ sooner or later. but if you dont renew, you cant win. i love domaining.

 

[Kate]

Your LLL.us will sell if you wait long enough.

How long is long enough ? After nearly ten years I am fed up I am patient but at some point you have to question your past choices and revisit your portfolio.
Also, there is no virtually no reseller market for LLL.us/.biz/.info domains (unlike LLL.com for example). The current domainer market is worse than in 2005. Back then domainers were buying LLL.us, as there was hope that .us would catch up with other ccTLDs. Clearly, this is not happening.
So if you have been renewing these names for ten years, each of them have cost something like $70 or more. If you can't sell them to domainers for at least that amount, you are losing. If there are no end users that come to you and willing to pay retail price - or even less than that, after all these are .us domains... - you are stuck.

 

[nothere]

There is a priceless domaining virtue you might need to show now- patience. Your LLL.us will sell if you wait long enough. I have a few i bought super cheap on this forum and i know i 'll sell them for good $$ sooner or later. but if you dont renew, you cant win. i love domaining.

Patience has a cost, renewing them year after year, not to include the stress.

.us hasn't picked up because the .com was USA's cctld so far and now all kinds of new extensions like .nyc etc will be available for major states and cities

 

[GoKaizen]

Anyone sell LLL.us recently?

 

[TRY]

.

 

[TRY]

Just a few months ago lll, nnnn, and nice 1 word keywords would drop, But that has changed. I feel .us was not just left alone but actively hindered all these years. I feel bad for the people that held on for so long because they saw value as well as the rest of the world, how many foreigners payed in excess of xxxxx for a .us only to lose it because of Nexus rules. Although it should be common sense that the best .us names are extremely valuable at the least in a marketing standpoint, the aftermarket for them is virtually non existent. So what do you do? Monetize them or be proactive and contact marketers in the niche who may recognize the value in the exact match keywords. lll's and nnn,nnnn have value to endusers but at the same time the most difficult to monetize. Imo

 

[kemjika11]

I still believe in LLL, NNN and strong KW .us. .US might be dormant or not "as good",but i'll never believe its a total bust. JMO.

 

[mobilespecialists]

I have registered US.sv . Now I have my very own "us" and can make all cool subdomains. Also SV can be read as"service", "server" or Silicon Valley

 

[TRY]

I have registered US.sv . Now I have my very own "us" and can make all cool subdomains. Also SV can be read as"service", "server" or Silicon Valley

Ummm that's nice, but we are talking about .us . subdomain are great , like in your case all you have to do is change the subdomain keyword and you can spam each thread and make it seem relevant.

 

[mobilespecialists]

Ummm that's nice, but we are talking about .us . subdomain are great , like in your case all you have to do is change the subdomain keyword and you can spam each thread and make it seem relevant.

I'm not spamming Sir. Since I have earlier made some moves with the real .US I'm interested in this thread. But all the time I wonder why there is so few interest in .us since it's a nice domain of a big country and the Americans seem to be quite proud of their country and patriotic. But with .us the interest seems to be lower than with .EU (btw. I have also a very own "eu" - I like this kind )

 

[lotk]

We (Americans) grew up with .com and .com is the standard. There are .us used and advertised in the U.S. but not too many. Most are small businesses. A good local example is wooff.us which is a realtor in my town that advertises the domain on all their signs. It looks like the domain just forwards to the .com, but they do use the .us to advertise.

 

[Name Trader]

I have registered US.sv . Now I have my very own "us" and can make all cool subdomains. Also SV can be read as"service", "server" or Silicon Valley

With no market for .us domains, how do you expect to market keyword.us.sv domains?

 

[mobilespecialists]

With no market for .us domains, how do you expect to market keyword.us.sv domains?

I do not. I just am able to do it :D I think someone might want to use this domain for a kind of free of charges service - a free domain or email maybe. US can also refer to UrlShortener. I like the double (even triple) meaning. Or maybe someone from Silicon Valley likes the "sv".

The discussion made me interested if there were any available 3-letters for the real .US. All taken
But there is a nice list of pandingDelete ones: axu.us,azm.us,blj.us,bmz.us,bnz.us,btz.us,bwx.us,bzg.us,dsx.us,exu.us,fxh.us,hku.us,jpj.us,mwk.us,obq.us,qma.us,vep.us,wbx.us,xgi.us,xre.us,ygc.us,zei.us,zuu.us

Zuu.us is a funny one

 

[TRY]

I do not. I just am able to do it :D I think someone might want to use this domain for a kind of free of charges service - a free domain or email maybe. US can also refer to UrlShortener. I like the double (even triple) meaning. Or maybe someone from Silicon Valley likes the "sv".

The discussion made me interested if there were any available 3-letters for the real .US. All taken
But there is a nice list of pandingDelete ones: axu.us,azm.us,blj.us,bmz.us,bnz.us,btz.us,bwx.us,bzg.us,dsx.us,exu.us,fxh.us,hku.us,jpj.us,mwk.us,obq.us,qma.us,vep.us,wbx.us,xgi.us,xre.us,ygc.us,zei.us,zuu.us

Zuu.us is a funny one

Pending delete but they never make It to the drops.

 

[Kate]

We (Americans) grew up with .com and .com is the standard. There are .us used and advertised in the U.S. but not too many.

It's true, and also .us was released late to the public (2002).
However it doesn't have to be that way. Many other ccTLDs that are popular today, have been slow to catch on. There was a time when they were restricted to corporations, or you had to fax complicated forms and pay hefty fees. There are still many countries (especially in Africa) that have underutilized extensions.
If you have a credit card it's easier to buy a .com for $10 at a US registrar, than cope with red tape locally.
Some extensions are actually unreliable and unstable. Sometimes they are poorly run or even downright corrupt sometimes.

I think there is an aspect of US exceptionalism, because the US owns several extensions: .us, .mil, .gov and .edu is mostly an American TLD. No other country is in a similar position. Every other country has just one extension of its own. For instance there is only one TLD for Germany: de, .fr for France etc.
The new geoTLDs like .paris or .berlin don't really count at this point.

I'm afraid that .us will never be a major ccTLD as it should be. The apathetic registry doesn't really help either. US patriotism doesn't extend to the DNS Other nations are quite proud of their national identity, and that is why ccTLDs are getting stronger and stronger. .us is an exception, it's the only major country that shuns its own extension. A real embarrassment and a national scandal imo.

 

[Mr Dobalina]

I have 'jpy' dot us and couldn't get $30 for it here 6 months ago. What do you think I can sell this for?

 

[TRY]

I have 'jpy' dot us and couldn't get $30 for it here 6 months ago. What do you think I can sell this for?

When does it expire?