Any value left in .US?

[DomainOgre]

After keeping many .US domains since 2004, I am left without many sales and a now staggering renewal bill ($20 each). I tried the GoDaddy codes listed here at NP to knock down the price some, but the GD reseller (formerly RegisterMate now Domains Priced Right) will not accept any of the codes here. I even tried emailing and calling Domains Priced Right (that is a joke) to lower the bill.

That said, are .US domains worth these now large renewal fees? Personally, I have sold less .Info and .US than anything else. I will be moving my non expired domains out of Domains Priced Right, but I still need to decide if the ones that are expired and can't be moved are worth renewing. I have several 3 letter .US and others that are keywords. Does anybody have any insight or advise that could help dealing with this?

 

[DU]

Thanks. Tried myself and couldn't get it to go and looked around for codes, didn't see anything or I would be all over this.

There's a coupon code for $3.49 registration.

cjcUS349

 

[steven22]

Guys...I did not revisit this as I thought this was public knowledge.

I did not need a coupon.

I RENEWED about 600 .us names on 6/30 the day the offer expired through my rep.

If you have reps at GD, you need to explore why you were not notified.

 

[mwzd]

Think the OPs issue is more to do with the fact that he's with a GD Reseller and not directly with GD itself.

Which means he's stuck with the reseller's terms, which a lot of them seem to take advantage of to rip off people who don't know better.

Regarding the subject of the thread, simple answer is not really, if you have a great network of buyers, you might be able to sell some of the .US names you hold but don't expect to sell too many at anything over cost, if that.

 

[DU]

Given the names that are dropping in the next 5 days I would say that someone thinks there is no value in .US.

I fail to see how James.us has no value, though.

Some SERIOUS keywords dropping that wouldn't even go in .CO imho. I'm not sure that they would even be dropped in .SO!

 

[theoretical]

I don't know that this year is significantly different than years past. There's certainly some names that have made me look twice but that happens every year for .US at this point. In fact I'd say that I was surprised by the lack of any significant Geo domains dropping unlike previous years (South Beach, Napa Valley, Yosemite, Sarasota, etc. last year alone!)

If DomainMonster keeps it's high rate of success, there are going to be some amazing deals for domainers who are (were) on the ball.

 

[steven22]

Good Job Brad...he is killing it with DomainMonster and looks to have a great few days ahead.

 

[Ms Domainer]

Good Job Brad...he is killing it with DomainMonster and looks to have a great few days ahead.

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He has a bit of friendly competition.




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