1 of the Fastest selling domains of all time .so?

[richface]

Launched only 2 days ago and almost all generic product related names registered. This extension the next big thing? godaddy is scrambling apparently to get a piece of the action since they initially stayed clear of this suffix how many of you have registered any? if so how many?

 

[lll]

No.

 

[Ms Domainer]

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I wouldn't bother with this TLD.


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[DU]

.SO sucks, no one cares and there are already threads on the subject that you could use to discuss.

 

[m-i-k-e]

I thought it was fitting that open registration launched on April Fools day

 

[lothos]

I tried grabbing espres.so but didn't get it. That was the only one I was interested in, even though there's some decent ones still available.

 

[Vito]

godaddy is scrambling apparently to get a piece of the action since they initially stayed clear of this suffix

Where did you hear/read this?

 

[Sam]

.so has no real use IMO , with a negligible government and no local adaption.

 

[jmcc]

Looks like someone invested heavily in a ccTLD that nobody in particular cares about?

Regards...jmcc

 

[Domainace]

I guess Bob Parsons might be looking for another basket-case failed state where he can pay warlords to shoot things for starving villagers.
Other than that, if the OP wasted his money on a silly domain or two, welcome to the club.

 

[bmugford]

A ccTLD from one of the worst countries on Earth with no real use. Not a good combo.
.SO is a dud.

Brad

 

[Sparhawke]

Just who are you going to resell your domains to?

No one in Africa can typically afford a domain (going purely off the GDP) and no one outside the country is ever going to put their trust in a country with one of the worst reputations in the world and countless military coups that happen pretty much annually.

If someone was to buy a domain off you one week would they be able to guarantee it was in their account the next?

My advice is to keep well away, there are much safer and more reputable extensions out there including .biz

 

[gilescoley]

I grabbed 6 @ $14 each, mainly for a quick flip...if I can that is

Astrology.so
Newspaper.so
Franchise.so
Virtual.so
Computing.so
Psychology.so

Thats it for me though

 

[lll]

A ccTLD from one of the worst countries on Earth with no real use. Not a good combo.
.SO is a dud.

Brad

poker or casino sold at release auction for just over $300 usd = Fail no doubt

 

[Domainate.com]

poker or casino sold at release auction for just over $300 usd = Fail no doubt

Ouch...that's pretty sad.

 

[firefly]

LOL is all I can come up with...really.

Someone has to go and beat ICANN with a blunt heavy object for aiding (and probably succeeding) in letting registrars fleece domainers with yet another new extension.

And that's the bottom line cause Stone Cold said .so.

Sorry...one of my all time favourite lines.

 

[richface]

Thanks guys for your comments but I bet the same people claiming this extension is a dud have bought some just in case. Look any strategic thinker will buy a few . Somalia is not a stable country , no goverment, no structure yes we all know the basic history. In my view this is even a plus, no restriction. The success of a domain extension is not only based state of government but is entirely based on two major factors 1. Business and 2 is the public. I admit geographically targeting .so with a domain like paydayloan.so will be silly business will not invest in the country period. but flip the coin with a domain like tourism.so if .so stands out as a major african TLD so one will care about the stability of government. I know a few people who made serious money from .me and they do not even know where Serbia and Montenegro is.lol ebay is not stupid why will they buy shopping.so if they didn't think it was of no value? redirects are becoming a new trend is no longer how big the economy or .jp should be the next big thing. If is easy to remember take a punt I was told to keep my money under the sofa when .de came out..Yer German country, restrictions, english not their main lingo yer right same people are scrambling for some crusts now on bido..I made my fortune with this extension and to be honest sometimes you need to think outside the box instead of using obvious facts to base judgements lol I do not work for .so by the way . But it will be "I told you SO" with the extension. lol

 

[Sparhawke]

You are seriously saying that the stability of a leaders sanity is not important and that countless military coups are desirable for business?

Big companies like Ebay with a market value of $41B (according to Forbes) can afford to buy domains that cost $100 with their budget and never even see the problem with it. It, along with Google, Amazon and Facebook are the Titans of the internet and can pretty much afford any domain in the world.

We domainers are slightly more limited because $100 spread over a few years on a gamble and whim is a lot more serious.

Your comparison is .me bears no resemblance, at least that country is somewhat stable as is Colombia with many times the GDP.

Have you ever seen what happens when an outside forces comes along like...I don't know, lets use the Mayans as an example. The Mayans had all this gold but had no use for it, just like native Somalians don't have the money to buy domains or anything...in most cases not even a computer.

Now, all the Spanish ended up doing is carving up bits of land between themselves but it really did not do them any good...there was gold there but they ended up sinking their ships lol

The same situation may happen with .so, unless people can figure out how to market them domains outside Africa it doesn't matter how little they cost.

At some point reality has to set in and you have to balance your budget against the possible reward and for the vast majority of us, this extension is not feasible but anyway I wish you well and good luck but it is not for me

Now, if we could have a real .US landrush where everyone gets to register what they want I am right there, since economically America is very stable (current bankers screw up notwithstanding) and in time the value of those domains will go up. Somalia is way too unpredictable and while that is good business for gun runners it makes little sense to the rest of us.

Be careful what you choose to eat, because you may end up choking on it ~ Ancient Sparhawkian Saying.

 

[firefly]

Thanks guys for your comments but I bet the same people claiming this extension is a dud have bought some just in case.

Ummm...faulty logic. Haven't bought one to be on the safe and never will. The only safe side to this extension is to stay away from it imo.

Look any strategic thinker will buy a few

I don't think .so...lol. I guess if your strategy is to jump off a cliff and expecting to not go splat, then I guess that it is as sound a strategy as any to invest in .so.

But it will be "I told you SO" with the extension. lol

Just like we were told .so by all the believers in other great extensions that have failed monumentally.

Every extension launch it is the same old rehashed garbage about how wonderful this or that extension is.

Good luck with your investments. You will need it according to recent history.

Oh and please don't say this will be different...they all do.


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[richface]

Off course I am not saying instability is great for business that is ridiculous. Look Sony, ebay, fox, google activated .so, pepsi all acquired trademark reg's during sunrise. unlike other extensions i.e .IM sony and more did not even bother to register its trademark. Now I bet you are thinking what's all the fuss about .so why are people throwing their money away. I know of 3 huge domain investor companies who have invested heavily in this extension. Look obviously no one is going to be marketing .so as an opportunity for business in somalia urmm that's obvious isn't it?
. But developing countries are where the money is. It could be huge in Africa? and if you think the whole continent is what you see on TV then you need to seek information and not become a pawn of the puppet master "media" Businesses think ahead yes the USA is the biggest economy bla bla bla but its already developed businesses are always established? Basic info!. developing countries is where business are going to go next. .so could be marketing as a universal extension for the AF continent since is SO easy to remember. Forget about somalia as an entity itself and if you think these domain are being bought to be marketed to Somalians then you are short sighted. But any serious domain investor always buys a few domains of any extension when it comes out or I take it you never take risks keeping your money safe in the bank is always a best bet. When I was buying the Chinese extensions people also called me nuts.lol where are business running to now? I am not advocating anyone invest in .so hell keep your money in your wallet. or wait and see maybe? Somalians do not have the money to buy domains or anything?.lol okay if you say SO!.let stick to .com's, .nets and .org right let keep looking for leftovers.
Let me guess the whole of Africa as well cannot even afford water..and even with everything moving towards the digital sphere you are still thinking of physical products like PCS. Anyway Thank you very much for your comment this site is a great platform to share our thoughts.

 

[jmcc]

Look any strategic thinker will buy a few .

Depends on whether they are sentient or not.

Somalia is not a stable country , no goverment, no structure yes we all know the basic history. In my view this is even a plus, no restriction.

In my view, an unstable country can change and with it the rules on registrations in that ccTLD.

The success of a domain extension is not only based state of government but is entirely based on two major factors 1. Business and 2 is the public.

It is somewhat more complex than those two. The communications infrastructure, the revenue, the trade links and the location of the country are all major factors. However one of the most important is the distance of the country's main language from English. This is rather important when it comes to English language keyword domains. Type-in traffic works differently in ccTLDs because they don't have the global nature of .com to rely upon.

if .so stands out as a major african TLD so one will care about the stability of government.

If the regime changes, the ccTLD regulations can change with it.

If is easy to remember take a punt I was told to keep my money under the sofa when .de came out..

I'm sure the good people of Germany are forever grateful for your generosity in November 1986. However with over 14 million .de domains, your confidence in the ccTLD is probably shared though Germany and the .de ccTLD are vastly different to Somalia and .so.

Regards...jmcc

 

[Coopey]

Richface, when .tel came out there were lots of new and 'new' accounts registered that all seemed to hype it up. You can see why so many are going to be sceptical before even looking at the content of your posts.

You know when .de 'came out' those people were probably right- you would have cleaned up investing in .com back then... although as you were "new to domaining" in March (according to yourself in this post: http://www.namepros.com/domain-appr...-builtinbeds-com-ringtone-bz.html#post4079776 ) you were 20 years too late.

If some big companies have bought their brand names / trademarks then so what? It's a defensive registration to stop people like you squatting them. It'd be more interesting if big companies were buying and using more generic names IMO (e.g. Sony buying dvd.so and building a site for their DVD players - a poor example but you get my drift).

So to clarify, are you a long-term domainer who's made his/her money from the launch of .de and Chinese (IDN?) extensions like you say here, or new like you say in the other post? Do these "3 huge domain investor companies" have names? You're making impressive connections for someone so new. Unless you're not new, then why lie in the other thread?

Keep hyping it up, by all means keep buying .so domains if that's what you want to do, I won't discourage you. People overbuying in to landrushes are doing the rest of us a favour by keeping prices on better quality ccTLDs lower.
If you're lucky you can sell your domains to some poor soul who buys the hype quite soon.
Good luck.

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PS @ Firefly, what do ICANN have to do with .so? Are they managing it?

 

[firefly]

PS @ Firefly, what do ICANN have to do with .so? Are they managing it?

ICANN approves all these useless and pointless extensions, thereby giving the registrars the avenue to rip off gullible domainers.

I edited my post above for you.

 

[Pryda]

imo, .so is a nice TLD. i only bought 3. but compared to other tlds its much more unique. the hype of .co is surely overrated and now ppl think cause of its bad political situation .SO won't succeed. but let me tell u something, what's going on in Libya right now? does that bother the internet? no! no_url_shorteners and other .LY sites still opperate...
So please dont be so negative and boycott a nice TLD cause its Somalia.. uhh how bad.. what does that have to do with anything? Most ppl dont know squat about Colombia but yet most have regged .CO which infacht looks like a terrible typo to me! .SO dont talk like ud know whats gonna happen.. cause u dont!

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PS @ Firefly, what do ICANN have to do with .so? Are they managing it?

No, but a Japanese company is.

 

[DU]

I only want to invest in the most unstable of ccTLDs. That's why I skipped Russia and Somalia and am waiting for:

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