new gtlds .Cloud hits general availability on Tuesday

[Arpit131]

Affordably-priced domain name presents an opportunity for domain name investors.

The company has delivered on the pricing promise. GoDaddy and other registrars are offering the domain names for about $20-$25.

With many “cloud” .com domain names selling for five figures, this seems like a good opportunity for domain name investors. There are no restrictions on registering .cloud domain names.

.Cloud had 500 sunrise applications and 2,651 landrush application

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[daj]

I've been hearing that for 15 years. lol

I know, right? It will eventually happen though. I'm getting tired of seeing all these numbered domains for sale. The whole point of the domain industry was to give people short urls so they didn't have to type numbered ip addresses but it seems the chinese like to do everything backwards. Numbered domains aren't good for any brand. No one's going to remember to go to 8111181.com. That's worse than typing an ip address.

 

[wwwweb]

Once the Chinese go thru a renewal cycle on the thousands of crap domains they hold it will be a different story.

.xyz has gained sub culture traction for sure.

.Cloud is already one step ahead with 777.Cloud priced at $18,000

 

[Dorkside]

I wonder if there could be value for CityName.cloud domains? I'm still on the fence if I could see businesses using them...

 

[hugegrowth]

I think domains are more like street addresses and phone numbers, nothing will ever completely replace them. Lots of things have changed over time, but some haven't. Lets say you started a new online business, or just a website, and you want to tell people about it. How in the world do you get them to your website without giving them a domain 'address'? With all the amazing advances in tech and computing the last 20 years, no one has come up with a better or easier method than a domain name to find something on the web. Even the millions of apps out there haven't come close to replacing domain names.

 

[hugegrowth]

Once the Chinese go thru a renewal cycle on the thousands of crap domains they hold it will be a different story.

.xyz has gained sub culture traction for sure.

.Cloud is already one step ahead with 777.Cloud priced at $180,000

November/December this year will be interesting for sure to watch renewals. That's when people will have to decide what to keep from everything they've bought, and what to let drop. The more exotic extensions and looooooong numerics will probably drop. The flipside is what will the competition be like in the drop auctions, and will domains people don't want to renew at $18 go back into availability and get regged again for first year $1.49?

If .xyz and the other extensions you can reg first year for ~$2 could be renewed for the same price, you'd see a lot more retention. Even .co you can get first year around $10, but then renewal is at least double that. Some extensions should consider lowering their renewal rates. Sure, buy a .mobi now for $1.49, but you have to renew at 10 times that price.

 

[Mahogany]

I know, right? It will eventually happen though. I'm getting tired of seeing all these numbered domains for sale. The whole point of the domain industry was to give people short urls so they didn't have to type numbered ip addresses but it seems the chinese like to do everything backwards. Numbered domains aren't good for any brand. No one's going to remember to go to 8111181.com. That's worse than typing an ip address.

That's an American mindset. Numeric domain names are popular in the East for casinos and other niches. Additionally, many are being purchased for future cyber currency. Once you understand the Chinese economic climate and what they're doing you'll realize the numeric com craze is no bubble or fad. This is long term.

Secondly, the Chinese can't be doing things backwards based on how dependent we are on them. They're doing something right.

Lastly, we don't have to fully understand the numeric niche to not appreciate some of the fastest ROI's this industry has even seen. As long as me and my friends are making money.... I'll never be tired of seeing numerics for sale.

 

[hugegrowth]

That's an American mindset. Numeric domain names are popular in the East for casinos and other niches. Additionally, many are being purchased for future cyber currency. Once you understand the Chinese economic climate and what they're doing you'll realize the numeric com craze is no bubble or fad. This is long term.

Secondly, the Chinese can't be doing things backwards based on how dependent we are on them. They're doing something right.

Lastly, we don't have to fully understand the numeric niche to not appreciate some of the fastest ROI's this industry has even seen. As long as me and my friends are making money.... I'll never be tired of seeing numerics for sale.

Amen!

 

[pleasega]

I know, right? It will eventually happen though. I'm getting tired of seeing all these numbered domains for sale. The whole point of the domain industry was to give people short urls so they didn't have to type numbered ip addresses but it seems the chinese like to do everything backwards. Numbered domains aren't good for any brand. No one's going to remember to go to 8111181.com. That's worse than typing an ip address.

The Chinese are different from what westerners do here, since Chinese language is different, their way of typing to the computer is different too.

It takes many keystrokes to actually type a Chinese word as one Chinese word you need to spell the pinyin out then click on the number on the list of results given. So sometimes Chinese people tell each other the website's address pinyin, they still may not get it right as many different words have the same pinyin. They would have to write it out and some of them may still not remember what it is after reaching home.

Hence the Chinese people just tell each other numbers, which is way much easier. Typing in a number followed by a common extension they know. That's that.

 

[daj]

I just find myself weirded out by chinese domainers and their superstitious false beliefs about numbers. I almost feel like by selling them a lucky number domain I'm a co-conspirator in their misguided belief system. I really don't want to be that person whose selling them a lie.

 

[mad409]

u-s.cloud

 

[webquest]

Somehow I got confused and thought NNN.clouds were registry reserved. Guess I missed out on the good ones. Chinese grabbed a bunch. They are starting to use non Chinese registrars more and more now as they have to in order to catch these things. Seen many had orders at Name.com

 

[Canadian]

13000 .cloud domains reg'd already !

 

[wwwweb]

13000 .cloud domains reg'd already !

It is speculative numeric hype that is pushing the numbers. The keywords are very pricey, the one's that make sense. I hope everyone does well from their investment, but it is funny you have western domainers buying up in hopes of Chinese investors buying them, and you have Chinese investors buying because they see Western investors buying, it is one big circle of nobody knows why.

 

[Canadian]

.cloud is another opportunity for ngtld haters to waste hours of their time posting negative hype online.

 

[AMRO1001]

Like any product in the world the marketing makes all the diffrence...and the registry is doing very good marketing... googling site:cloud show good .cloud websites are live from day 1!!

 

[wwwweb]

.cloud is another opportunity for ngtld haters to waste hours of their time posting negative hype online.

Nothing wrong with GTLD's, but there is no reason to own 358.cloud, other than you hoping some chinese buyer will pay you more than the $20 you paid for it. If you think Chinese are all about numbers, well they still have to type the DOT CLOUD into the url window. You are all chasing the same tail, you just don't know it yet.

 

[domainsoup]

Sedo doesn't allow listing of .cloud

 

[Canadian]

Sedo doesn't allow listing of .cloud

Likely because it's New..... try in a few days

 

[Domain Galleria]

Nothing wrong with GTLD's, but there is no reason to own 358.cloud, other than you hoping some chinese buyer will pay you more than the $20 you paid for it. If you think Chinese are all about numbers, well they still have to type the DOT CLOUD into the url window. You are all chasing the same tail, you just don't know it yet.

Domaining - the craziest business of all time. A market where most portfolio holders don't even understand what they are selling.

 

[domainsoup]

Nothing wrong with GTLD's, but there is no reason to own 358.cloud, other than you hoping some chinese buyer will pay you more than the $20 you paid for it. If you think Chinese are all about numbers, well they still have to type the DOT CLOUD into the url window. You are all chasing the same tail, you just don't know it yet.

Yeah. The only nnn that is worth guaranteed $ is not allowed: 888
8888 - taken
88888 - taken
888888 - taken
8888888 - taken
88888888 - taken
888888888 - taken

How many of those guys see a profit?