Dot Asia worth anything?

[iswiegers]

Hi Guys,

Will Dot Asia domains be worth anything, in time?

I mean google does'nt even list dot Asian domains... so how is it possible to gain revenue from them, if they cant get traffic?

Maybe there is a way that I don't know about?

Post ur info!

 

[Alex]

why are you knocking .asia in all of your posts.. if you wanna hate, wait 2-5 years please. I see nothing wrong in throwing a few bucks at a new TLD. If it fails, so be it. If not, I win a few top auctions and make a few bucks. End of story.

No problem if you calculate your risks.

I don't like seeing people regging .asia names that are available in other tld's such as .net, .org or .info.

Some people dream that Asia will have once amazing type in traffic just because there are 4 billion people living there. They are the daydreamers, the ones I would like to protect.

Do you know for example that with $10 a family can survive for a month in some parts of the world? In the meantime some people register tens of useless names in a tld without any sense.

Really, I am not against .asia ... I wait for the day for .oceania or .southamerica to come. But, if you looked at the showcase thread there are some names listed in .asia that I would sincerely hesitate to hand register in .com. And that is a wasted money from people who have unrealistic expectation from a business they are not familiar with (in many cases).

However if some people gamble, and they are aware they can loose or win (IMO most probably loose), then it is ok on my part.

 

[Jeff]

^ Rep.+ added, thanks Alex! :tu: :imho:

-Jeff

 

[Steven]

No problem if you calculate your risks.

I don't like seeing people regging .asia names that are available in other tld's such as .net, .org or .info.

Some people dream that Asia will have once amazing type in traffic just because there are 4 billion people living there. They are the daydreamers, the ones I would like to protect.

Do you know for example that with $10 a family can survive for a month in some parts of the world? In the meantime some people register tens of useless names in a tld without any sense.

Really, I am not against .asia ... I wait for the day for .oceania or .southamerica to come. But, if you looked at the showcase thread there are some names listed in .asia that I would sincerely hesitate to hand register in .com. And that is a wasted money from people who have unrealistic expectation from a business they are not familiar with (in many cases).

However if some people gamble, and they are aware they can loose or win (IMO most probably loose), then it is ok on my part.

Great post

 

[Shasta]

Hi Guys,

Will Dot Asia domains be worth anything, in time?

I mean google does'nt even list dot Asian domains... so how is it possible to gain revenue from them, if they cant get traffic?

Maybe there is a way that I don't know about?

Post ur info!

Give Google some time. It usually takes a few months for websites to show up in Google after you've submitted them and .asia is very new. I'm sure they'll get indexed, afterall, I doubt that Google would want to snub the entire continent of .asia by singling out this domain for exclusion.

As to the question will .asia domains be worth anything, I'm sure they will be in the short term. There will probably be lots of people willing to pay top dollar for some of the most frequently used and popular keywords. However, I don't see it holding any promise as a long term investment. In fact, I don't see any other TLD ever becoming as successful as the .com.

We've got around 250 different TLD's right now including, .info, .name, .biz, .pro, all the country codes, .us, .ws, .at, .to, etc., etc.. Yet, more are in the planning. Further with IPV6 technology and internet upgrades thousands of new TLDS's could be released. TLD's for the other continents, TLD's for the major cities, file extensions like .pdf, .gif, .exe, keywords like .travel, .xxx, .realty, .loans and perhaps even TLDs for rich mega corporations like .walmart, .pepsi, etc.. (A person could go broke trying to invest in all the new releases.)

Meanwhile, we have seen time and again, as each new TLD is released, the .com goes up in value. I believe this is true in part because the consequence of introducing a new TLD is that with each new arrival there is less excitement and enthusiasm generated and fewer registrations, making the .com appear to be larger than life. It is one of the first and because it had a large headstart, all the statistics pointing to it will continue to show it as the clear leader and choice domain of "the people".

In conclusion, I believe that .asia holds some short term promises, however, I do not think that .asia or any other TLD, will become as valuable as the .com. Further, I think .asia may lose value because with every new domain introduced, the letter combinations and keywords are duplicated and spread thin, with the same popular words in thousands of peoples hands in a multitude of TLDS.

:wave:

 

[opalxx]

add a bit more

There is LLLLL.com 5 letter.com's which are looking very promising, it's .com it's short, you can make profit on 5 letter.com's today, there are still gems out there you can search for to register and the future looks very bright once some sellouts like cvcvc.com and vcvcv.com happen. Why people say why not invest in .asia because what else is there? Is beyond me

Thanks
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OK..well the dot asia's i regged are mostly all with all tlds taken and estibot values of over $100,000 and good wordtracker around 2000 or more. I would not reg an asia if most other extensions are avail unless it was specific to that asian country. What i meant as "what else is there" was not restricted to domains. I meant it more broadly like shares, stocks, bank interest, used cars, gov bonds etc etc. To me it just seems worth the punt and what the hell we have to live don't we??? To me all of these words of impending doom on asia posts are pretty boring and ho hum. Live, my fellow human beings live. We only get one shot at it.

 

[estibot.com]

OK..well the dot asia's i regged are mostly all with all tlds taken and estibot values of over $100,000 and good wordtracker around 2000 or more.

Estibot doesn't value any .asia domains over $100,000.. but I guess you meant the valuation for corresponding .com names.

It's impossible to valuate .asia domains before there is some substantial sales data available.

But I would say it's not a bad idea to reg some really, really good .asia names, like travel.asia, airlinetickets.asia and so on, but those are probably already gone.

 

[raredn.com]

OK..well the dot asia's i regged are mostly all with all tlds taken and estibot values of over $100,000 and good wordtracker around 2000 or more. I would not reg an asia if other extensions are avail unless it specifically referred to asian countries. What i meant as "what else is there" was not restricted to domains. I meant it more broadly like shares, stocks, bank interest, used cars, gov bonds etc etc. To me it just seems worth the punt!!!

I am ot the train of thought, that people registering .asia domains because a lot of other extensions are taken are making an huge mistake if this is what they use to validate their registrations, as only the .com of domains with a huge number extensions taken will have value, the other name extensions especially if not generic are a huge gamble to have any value at all, even the .net

People think that just because the lots of extensions are taken, that all the other extensions registered have great value, this is a 'myth', usually the other extensions are worthless, so why join them just to fill a gap and register another worthless registration, when only the .com has value the huge majority of the time. I already did learn this lesson when I was a noobie

Also lastly what the .com is worth has little effect on other extensions except in the case of 2 and 3 letter .coms and .nets. Apart from that a .com can be worth thousands and the .net not even worth registration fee

Estibot doesn't value any .asia domains over $100,000.. but I guess you meant the valuation for corresponding .com names.

It's impossible to valuate .asia domains before there is some substantial sales data available.

But I would say it's not a bad idea to reg some really, really good .asia names, like travel.asia, airlinetickets.asia and so on, but those are probably already gone.

Yes the good .asia are long gone in the pre release auctions. Please don't encourage the hand reggers to register any more hand regged garbage like displayed in the .asia showcase, I really can't bear to see any more of this insanity

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