Comparison: .mobi , .tv, .ws , .in or else?

[competentdomains]

You may find single word domains availabe in these tlds so the question is, if you have a domain available in .mobi, another domain in .tv, another in .ws or else, which tlds do you prefer? How do you rank them? What advice can I ask for in regards for some estimated relative values respectively.

I think domainers rank .tv and .mobi higher but end users (= market) would probably think of a tv set and something mobile. Ws is a country domain but can be marketed as WebSite something and .in sounds familiar as a word just like com, net and org that are parts of many real words.

 

[Gerrit]

I would definitely go for .TV if all the keywords are more or less identical in value. Then go for the most established extention : .TV

Only exception is when the .WS or .MOBI keyword is way better. I would not waste money on .IN personally as the "most global ccTLD" thing is a farce IMO. It is not generic and will never be as generic as .TV is (although even .TV is not really generic of course)

 

[lzy]

I'll definitely get .tv

 

[ji]

I would have to go with the country code top level domain belonging to what was the Ellice Islands portion of the former British Colony the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.

 

[The Grinch]

I would go for .ws. I think it'll take off soon since they are promoting it as "Web Site" now, so thats cool.

 

[ji]

I would go for .ws. I think it'll take off soon since they are promoting it as "Web Site" now, so thats cool.

The problem with that idea is that no one calls websites "WS"s.

 

[Steven]

I would go for .ws. I think it'll take off soon since they are promoting it as "Web Site" now, so thats cool.

I have an amazing one dictionary word .ws with over 200,000 in OVT.
I've heard of people branding .ws as website, but can you give us a link where can verify it?



In regards to the main thread, I'm investing in non-premium and premium .TV domains.

 

[lzy]

They have been branding .ws as website for such a long time but it never really caught on.

Anyway the website is http://website.ws/

 

[DomainMayhem.com]

I have an amazing one dictionary word .ws with over 200,000 in OVT.
I've heard of people branding .ws as website, but can you give us a link where can verify it?



In regards to the main thread, I'm investing in non-premium and premium .TV domains.

GoDaddy has (website) right next to the .ws on the search result page (to the immediate right, you can't miss it).

 

[Steven]

Thank you for the answers lzy and DomainMayhem
+ rep

Only .WS domain that I have at the moment is Member.WS
I bought it from TDNAM.

 

[The Grinch]

I have an amazing one dictionary word .ws with over 200,000 in OVT.
I've heard of people branding .ws as website, but can you give us a link where can verify it?



In regards to the main thread, I'm investing in non-premium and premium .TV domains.

When i saw that .ws was available, i immediately googgled it and found this page that talks about it and the origins.

http://www.webmastertechniques.com/Insight/ws.html

after reading that, i went ahead and bought one. Godaddy sells them for cheap :D

 

[competentdomains]

Noone mentioned Mobi here. First about .tv, it does make you think of tv so it would be good if the name can be associated with tv in any way. And .tv costs more too.
However a few months back I did find a couple of available .tvs, I guess they are taken now... btw I will check it now .. tvguides.tv and watchtv.tv was taken, some other still available.

Since .tv costs more, which (good) registrars may be cheaper?

 

[lzy]

godaddy's the cheapest now $15.

 

[htmlindex]

You may find single word domains availabe in these tlds so the question is, if you have a domain available in .mobi, another domain in .tv, another in .ws or else, which tlds do you prefer? How do you rank them?

.tv
.mobi
.ws (Personally, I wouldn't even touch this extention unless it was a super great keyword)

 

[Makis.TV]

However a few months back I did find a couple of available .tvs, I guess they are taken now... btw I will check it now .. tvguides.tv ....

Since .tv costs more, which (good) registrars may be cheaper?

i had this 1st registered and then sold it to someone else through sedo

 

[The Grinch]

.tv
.mobi
.ws (Personally, I wouldn't even touch this extention unless it was a super great keyword)

I don't understand that. Why .TV over .WS? TV stands for the island of Tuvalu or maybe you could make it for television or something, less attractive in my opinion.

WS could and does stand for website which is more valid.

i'm not saying that you are wrong, i just want to better understand your thinking on this.

 

[htmlindex]

I don't understand that. Why .TV over .WS? TV stands for the island of Tuvalu or maybe you could make it for television or something, less attractive in my opinion.

WS could and does stand for website which is more valid.

Actually, .ws stands for Western Samoa, but people have been branding it as Website. Plus you can't transfer it to another registrar once you register that extention.

Why do I like .tv better? You just have to look at the recent sales & the activity in that extention. The .tv extention is great for creating a video site, while the .ws extention is not going anywhere & hasn't for a long time.

 

[AdoptableDomains]

.mobi is probably the best choice for overall use since it's the only ICANN controlled gTLD in the question. with ccTLD's you are limited to getting problems resolved by the contract registry operator or the sponsoring country. However, I would only get strong keywords that are preferably short (to be typed into phone keypads), and preferably something a person might search while mobile (traffic, weather, shopping, etc.). This is the safest bet for a domain, but maybe not the cheapest to register, renew, or develop. The drawback for me has been high initial reg fees, even though they are getting better lately. I also think it was a little over-hyped in the beginning and may go down in a "correction" before going up again for the long term.

I think .tv has been the most accepted "re-purposed" ccTLD among those listed. However, I don't like the fact that some keyword domains are "premium" domains costing thousands to register and renew. I also think things not related to television might not be best here. Tuvalu is such as small country that many are clueless of it's real origin.

For the ccTLD's mentioned, I like .ws the best. Mainly because it's the least expensive and not necessarily restricted by the "TV" theme. The catch with .ws is that you can't change registrars. Therefore, don't register or buy if at a registrar you don't like or that is high priced. Western Samoa which its named after isn't even called that any more, and most non-domainers don't even know it's associated with that country or anything about the country. I think it has potential generically because it can be marketed as WebSite, even though its been done so poorly so far. (I'm warming up to .cc not mentioned here as an alternate generic as well, but they are more expensive than .ws to register.) Both .cc and .ws have the advantage of long histories of being opened up for unrestricted registrations.

I don't have any .in, but don't think it's too bad. It is associated with India, but since many there do speak English, it has potential. I think it's harder for me at least to disassociate .in from India than it is .ws and .tv from their origin countries.

:imho:

 

[mwzd]

I would not waste money on .IN personally as the "most global ccTLD" thing is a farce IMO. It is not generic and will never be as generic as .TV is (although even .TV is not really generic of course)

roflmao, wish you all the best.

what will you do when people start calling it plasma instead of tv?

.in will always be a preposition in the english language, just like .us is a pronoun.

 

[AdoptableDomains]

what will you do when people start calling it plasma instead of tv?

I'm not a .tv fan, but I don't think there's any worry about what we currently call "TV" changing. Whatever the technology, TV (television) still makes sense. "Tele" means distant and "Vision" means to view. Whether you are viewing video over airwaves, internet, or satellite, it's still viewing something from a distance from where it is originating. Television as a word is more than the piece of equipment you view it on. it's become the whole process in general of transmitting moving images to another place. Television may be viewed on a CRT, LDC, Plasma, OLED, or some future technology. I don't think it will be changed from being called television any more than radio changed when it started to be broadcast over the internet or by satellite.