Is .US dead (??)

[Yong1]

Is anyone still investing in .US domains?

Has anyone sold any .US domains lately?

Where would you sell them?

Obviously in the .US .com is king too, but I have seen at times .us being used by different companies.

 

[MR Harrist]

anyone try selling dot US with FB ads? I am curious, and I am planning to do this , maybe this week. it would be great if you guys can share some insight!

 

[GoKaizen]

Nice idea, would try with other extensions.

Have you seen Derek Mueller videos on FB ads?

http://adamyamada.com/facebook-fraud-problems-exposed/

anyone try selling dot US with FB ads? I am curious, and I am planning to do this , maybe this week. it would be great if you guys can share some insight!

 

[MR Harrist]

Nice idea, would try with other extensions.

Have you seen Derek Mueller videos on FB ads?

http://adamyamada.com/facebook-fraud-problems-exposed/

I often use FB ads, so I am not surprise with many like or fake stuff like that! but I also get some sales with them, as long the price are not expensive some ppl will buy, but I never try selling domain with them! so , I am curious about it

I read this
https://www.namepros.com/threads/selling-your-domains-using-paid-advertising.891381/
some ppl make money as long the price are xx not $x,xxx

 

[Silentptnr]

okb.us just sold for $750

 

[Michael M]

Hmmm... Wonder if the buyer saw the domain as OK Bus or OKB dot us?

 

[TRY]

Hmmm... Wonder if the buyer saw the domain as OK Bus or OKB dot us?

Maybe? I have uok and see it as "U OK?"

 

[daica85]

Hmmm... Wonder if the buyer saw the domain as OK Bus or OKB dot us?

I think "OK Bus" is a good name or "okay be us"

 

[GoKaizen]

https://www.namepros.com/threads/spiders-us-significantly-developed-us-domain.769085/

 

[DNScholar]

okb.us just sold for $750

LLL.us becoming rare find now a days and price is also increasing.

 

[DNScholar]

Hmmm... Wonder if the buyer saw the domain as OK Bus or OKB dot us?

I think .COM is available

 

[kemjika11]

LLL.us becoming rare find now a days and price is also increasing.

CHEAAA!!!!!
That's great to hear. It was meant to happen...only issue was when.america cannot have valueless llls for her extension. But that's actually true...I barely see lll.us for sale on NP. Even when u do its only 1-5. Few suuiper bargain llls floated for the past few months.scarcity is lovely in our industry.some ignore it and question it instead of just using it to your benefit.

 

[Jon B]

I watched Skate.us sell on Flippa a few months ago for approx $400. Now that skateboarding will be in the 2020 Olympics, that sale seems like a bargain.

 

[Haris]

Live $1 Auctions at NamePros!

TheCafe.us

CoffeeClub.us

 

[Web Trader]

The American public for all intents and purposes still does not know .US even exists. They care even less. Think about it.

 

[kemjika11]

The American public for all intents and purposes still does not know .US even exists. They care even less. Think about it.

Are you really sure? I believe you are correct...if we assume they are ignorant, but i dont think they are so you are probably wrong. If you were right then how come we cant see great .us names being sold for cheap? Yes .com is america's "ccTLD" but it doesnt mean .US is not known or valuable. Tbh i think when you combine .com's exhaustion level+ high price AND US' high and increasing population, i think .US has a slightly positive environment to emerge from.

 

[Web Trader]

Are you really sure? I believe you are correct...if we assume they are ignorant, but i dont think they are so you are probably wrong. If you were right then how come we cant see great .us names being sold for cheap? Yes .com is america's "ccTLD" but it doesnt mean .US is not known or valuable. Tbh i think when you combine .com's exhaustion level+ high price AND US' high and increasing population, i think .US has a slightly positive environment to emerge from.

Yes I'm sure. They barely know it exists and care even less. Obviously that is what Neustar has wanted as well. Obviously that is what the US government has wanted as well.

Are you from the US and do you live here? Go ahead and ask around. Ask people out of the blue "How do you feel about .us?" 9 times out of 10 or more you will probably be asked to explain what that even is, or at most get a hesitating reply like "what is that, some kind of Internet thing?"

Even when "Del.icio.us" itself was huge and famous, you can be sure that most Americans, even people who used the site itself, still had no idea what .us is or that it even exists, that's how people are.

I'm not assuming anything - it's something that is easy to see and to read, like a dark cloudy sky indicating likely imminent rain.

>"If you were right then how come we cant see great .us names being sold for cheap?"

You really need to ask? Because people still hold out hope, and they know that the best should be worth a fortune, so they are not just going to let go unless they absolutely have to, but they will wait hoping for things to become the way they should have been already. The question you raised even only supports what I'm talking about. People have an unshakable conviction and intuition that the best .us domains are supposed to be extremely valuable, and that it is nothing but a strange and scarcely even believable anomaly that such has not been realized yet, and they are certainly not just going to abandon them.

>"Tbh i think when you combine .com's exhaustion level+ high price AND US' high and increasing population, i think .US has a slightly positive environment to emerge from."

Are you serious? That sounds so rational and reasonable, doesn't it? That's nothing but the same cup of Kool-Aid people have been serving and drinking from the beginning in 2002. I was serving and drinking that same cup of Kool-Aid myself. Are you from the US and do you know what it means when we talk about "drinking the Kool-Aid? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid)

Instead of people languishing in the same Kool-Aid saturated cup of wishful thinking, if everyone woke up to the reality and spoke up and spoke out, then maybe perhaps, God willing, there might actually be some acknowledgement of what has been going on and maybe even some meaningful change. Until then it is business as usual, just as "powers that be" clearly want.

 

[TRY]

The American public for all intents and purposes still does not know .US even exists. They care even less. Think about it.

Yes I'm sure. They barely know it exists and care even less. Obviously that is what Neustar has wanted as well. Obviously that is what the US government has wanted as well.

Are you from the US and do you live here? Go ahead and ask around. Ask people out of the blue "How do you feel about .us?" 9 times out of 10 or more you will probably be asked to explain what that even is, or at most get a hesitating reply like "what is that, some kind of Internet thing?"

Even when "Del.icio.us" itself was huge and famous, you can be sure that most Americans, even people who used the site itself, still had no idea what .us is or that it even exists, that's how people are.

I'm not assuming anything - it's something that is easy to see and to read, like a dark cloudy sky indicating likely imminent rain.

>"If you were right then how come we cant see great .us names being sold for cheap?"

You really need to ask? Because people still hold out hope, and they know that the best should be worth a fortune, so they are not just going to let go unless they absolutely have to, but they will wait hoping for things to become the way they should have been already. The question you raised even only supports what I'm talking about. People have an unshakable conviction and intuition that the best .us domains are supposed to be extremely valuable, and that it is nothing but a strange and scarcely even believable anomaly that such has not been realized yet, and they are certainly not just going to abandon them.

>"Tbh i think when you combine .com's exhaustion level+ high price AND US' high and increasing population, i think .US has a slightly positive environment to emerge from."

Are you serious? That sounds so rational and reasonable, doesn't it? That's nothing but the same cup of Kool-Aid people have been serving and drinking from the beginning in 2002. I was serving and drinking that same cup of Kool-Aid myself. Are you from the US and do you know what it means when we talk about "drinking the Kool-Aid? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid)

Instead of people languishing in the same Kool-Aid saturated cup of wishful thinking, if everyone woke up to the reality and spoke up and spoke out, then maybe perhaps, God willing, there might actually be some acknowledgement of what has been going on and maybe even some meaningful change. Until then it is business as usual, just as "powers that be" clearly want.

I'm in the u.s. if you asked 100 hundred high school and college students to visit whatever.us, betcha most if not all will know what your talking about.

Local and small businesses are the ones imo that will drive the growth of .US.

Sooner or later major corporations will covet .us for targeted marketing, defensive purposes, more personal customer interactions, etc....

Anyways a domain name is more than just an extension, What's to the left can make or break you

 

[Web Trader]

Same wishful self- and group-deluded Kool-Aid as ever. And have you watched any of the embarrassing videos on YouTube about everything college students don't know? Good luck with that.

I want the same thing you want and have wanted it from the beginning. The sad ugly reality of the situation needs to be recognized, however, and by deluding yourself with that kind of wishful optimistic Kool-Aid theme, you are playing right into the hands of those who have wanted and successfully kept .US down all these years. As long as you see the US government itself doing TV commercials for "Navy.com" and "Airforce.com" instead of "Navy.us" and "Airforce.us" for instance, just to point out a few illustrative examples, you will be dealing with an anomalous uphill battle and headwind as big as a nation.

 

[TRY]

Same wishful self- and group-deluded Kool-Aid as ever. And have you watched any of the embarrassing videos on YouTube about everything college students don't know? Good luck with that.

I want the same thing you want and have wanted it from the beginning. The sad ugly reality of the situation needs to be recognized, however, and by deluding yourself with that kind of wishful optimistic Kool-Aid theme, you are playing right into the hands of those who have wanted and successfully kept .US down all these years. As long as you see the US government itself doing TV commercials for "Navy.com" and "Airforce.com" instead of "Navy.us" and "Airforce.us" for instance, just to point out a few illustrative examples, you will be dealing with an anomalous uphill battle and headwind as big as a nation.

We shall overcome

 

[HeyNow]

As long as you see the US government itself doing TV commercials for "Navy.com" and "Airforce.com" instead of "Navy.us" and "Airforce.us" for instance, just to point out a few illustrative examples, you will be dealing with an anomalous uphill battle and headwind as big as a nation.

Correct. Perhaps the answer is to do what Obama is currently doing, relinquish control of the Internet to the UN or other international body. ccTLDs are a big deal in every other country, and I cannot help but think any ccTLD will become more important in that event. Dot-US, before becoming available to anyone in 2001, was only used for municipalities in the USA. Of course relinquishing control of the Internet to the UN has other negative consequences, but it certainly seems logical that it would help our cause relative to .US. It really couldn't get any worse than it is now for .US.

 

[Haris]

Just Started another $1 .us auction

Transact.us

CoffeeClub.us and TheCafe.us still going strong.

 

[Silentptnr]

.us like most ccTLD domains are definitely not bad investments.. I believe most americans using the web do know what .us is. I know of several situations where names got unexpectedly hot. I wouldnt write off .us.

 

[Haris]

Best cctld's imo

1) .co
2) .co.uk
3) .us
4) .in
5) .tv

 

[Web Trader]

I was literally just on the phone with a friend of mine who currently works for the US federal government. He's been working there for many years and is close to retirement, perhaps a year away. I'm having him look at some websites to give me feedback. And I mentioned to him that we now have more than .com, .net and .org, the new TLDs, and he wondered about the various country domains, which I informed him were called "ccTLDs."

And then do you know what he did? He wanted to know why we didn't have our own country code domain as well.

 

[Silentptnr]

Take away the restriction and .us becomes a top tld. Imo