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Another Long One...But a Good On This Time...Or Am I Crazy?

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Most of you know my story by now. 20 years ago I purchased dustie.com. I checked and dusty.com was available then too, but seeing as how domains were 100.00 a pop and I had just bought a new computer for 2,000.00+ (Remember those days?), I decided against buying it. If I remember it was about three months after that, 3 months of having to tell people how to spell my email address ([email protected]) umpteen times, I decided to go for it after all, but guess what...it was gone by then!

I have regretted that decision ever since. In the last 20 years I've spent spelling my name to folks who wanted my email address. It's the same as Recons.com said in the Dustie.com thread... having his name saves him a bunch of time spelling his email out. In my case, over 20 years, that's a LOT of time!

Well, when I thought dustie.com was gone for good, I went searching for another name in GoDaddy and, to my delight, I found that dustie.art was available for 9.99! I snatched it up...and then went looking for dusty.art immediatly after. Godaddy said it was not available. Figures...

But then, reading in here, and following links to read about the .art domain, it wasn't long before I discovered that, just because GD said it wasn't available, didn't mean it wasn't available! It could be that it was a Premium .ART name and GD wasn't carrying these premium names so simply said they wern't available when searched

So I went to .art...and sure enough, dusty.art was available...for £1710.00 (about 2200 in us dollars). I checked other registrars, and some had it 300 to 400.00 dollars higher then that price... and none had it lower. I just couldn't swing it.

Last night I went to look again on .art, and they still had it listed for £1710.00. This time I decided to click through to "purchase", choosing .art as the reigistrer, (you can choose others from .art's site) to see if maybe I could find out what renewal costs would be, knowing I'm not actually buying it until I pay for it.

Imagine my surprise when, on the next page .Art said "buy this domain for $1600.00/yr with 30.00 renewal! What? Really? That's nearly a 600.00 saving from what it had been just two pages back and for the last two days I'd been checking on it. OH, My Gosh... should I??? That's a lot of money...

Since I'm an artist, and want to use [email protected] for my art business, I would absolutely love to have dusty.art too. I'd never have to spell my name for [email protected]! All I have to do is have two emails that merge to the same email account.

So it was time to have a heart to heart with my husband, a non computer guy who I thought for sure would think I was crazier then a loon! I explained it all to him, and, partly because of how distraught I'd been over the dustie.com situation I'm sure, he agreed it would be a good name for me to have (Ok, so I took advantage of him at a weak moment...name a wife who hasn't!). He said that if that was what I wanted we could make it happen. After all, what are credit cards for, right?

Wahoo!! And to think...only two weeks ago I WAS totally DISTRAUGHT and DUSTYLESS! All three dusties are going to be under Lock and Key (have to find out how .art locks their domains now).

Am I crazy for going in hock and spending 1,600.00 on a .art domain name??? Probably...but I'm feeling a pretty happy crazy about it right now...:)
 
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I will be keeping a close eye on things here on out. I'll also be asking all friends and family and even new acquaintances I get a chance to talk with at the Farmer's Market and the Gallery where I sell my art. It's a artist's coop and we all share time working there, so have a chance to often meet art enthusiasts and talk in length to them. They, and the folks who visit my booth at the Farmer's market, are my target audience. I will be really interested to learn more about what they think of the .ART TLD and what are their thoughts on my "rebranding" to reflect both .com and .art.

Friends won’t tell you if they think bad idea, same for people you meet. They just say good idea so exciting and wait for the disaster.

It is bad idea but I think you aren’t listen and thus will be expensive lesson on new tld confusion. You know these extensions all failing??
 
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I agree with most that dustie.com is your brand. Dusty.art is just fomo of what happened 20 years ago with dusty.com. At the end of the day it is your money and your decision Dustie (your brand)
 
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Maurixius, I gave up the idea of dusty.art a couple of days ago. It was an impulse and you're right that it had to do with passing up dusty.com years ago. You're right that it's a bad idea too. If it ever comes down to a decent price though, I'll probably still go for it though, cause it's a .ART and I believe that TLD is far from failing!

Just not enough people even know that the .art name exists now. All the artist's I've talked to have never heard of it. Two years and an overthought out poor launch slowed recognition of this new TLD way down. However, I believe t's too good a TLD to hold it down over the long term. Search the word ARTIST in google and you get 4,260,000,000 results.. That is not 4 Million, but 4 BILLION!!!

Johnnie08... I just don't believe that, however you look at it, .ART is going to fail. Just the opposite in fact. I believe that .ART is going to be one of the most well know (and highly sought after) TLDs. I may be letting those 4 BILLION, 260 MILLION results take over my better judgement, but somehow, I just don't think that's the case. Time will tell... In the meantime I'm going to be sharing and shouting my domain Dustie.art to the world. I've even ordered a couple of Tshirts that say.. Dustie.Art Promoting the Arts, Both Online and Off.

And, as I have said before, I do not now, nor did I ever, work for the .art people. Though, the way I feel about this particular TLD, they should probably hire me!

Oh, and did I mention that if you look up ART on Google, it throws back 18 BILLION results!!!
 
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Time will tell... In the meantime I'm going to be sharing and shouting my domain Dustie.art to the world. I've even ordered a couple of Tshirts that say.. Dustie.Art Promoting the Arts, Both Online and Off.

Do any of the Tshirts have something like Dus[image of a tie].Art on it? :)

Tshirt with a tie image on it?
https://www.google.com/search?sourc.....gws-wiz.....0..0i131j0j0i131i10.Afc0DorZJd8


Tie with Dustie.Art written vertically on it?

Maybe some tie/s with images of your artwork on it?

What I'm getting at: A visual hammer - one that's distinctive but associative - can be useful for helping memory, marketing:
https://www.ries.com/2015/05/19/what-can-a-red-nose-do/
https://www.ries.com/2015/09/12/striking-out-cancer-with-a-visual-hammer-2/

I once had a tie that had an image on it of Mickey Mouse sitting at the bottom of some stairs, in a Thinker position. If there was a tie I could relate to, that was the one.
 
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dusty.com is not developed. You could likely purchase it from uniregistry.
 
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Cal, you do have an imagination, however being as I'm a girl, I think a Tshirt with a tie on it would not quite fit with my style... I'm a Big Disney and Mickey fan, so I'd have love to have that same Micky image you mentioned on a scarfs though.

dusty.com is not developed. You could likely purchase it from uniregistry.
Sure, if I had a boatload of money in my pocket.
 
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