Dot .GURU

[RU]

Show off your .guru domains!

What .gurus Do You Have?

P.S. I have no .guru domains..

 

[Kate]

I am wondering if we are going to have a thread for each and every new extension :?

My list:

 

[JudgeMind]

PC.guru

 

[Blake]

And as soon as the gates open to other extensions the sheep move swiftly to another pen.

 

[GoWebnames.com]

Games.guru just sold for $10k

 

[noonoo1]

NY.guru

New York Guru

New York City Guru sold for $1,250

Feeling the 2 letter domains love!


BTW Game.guru just sold for $6,800

 

[forge]

PUMP.guru is TAKEN.

DUMP.guru is AVAILABLE.

:hehe:

 

[Beards.net]

Oh boy. This thread makes me jealous of the registries.

 

[TheWatcher]

"The person say it cannot be done. Should not interrupt the person doing it." Chinese Proverb (Thanks Owen for sharing)

It's a new opportunity. new business for us. But I also believe that domains are not created equal, some will fail but some will succeed. In every small business, budget is always tight so keep it under control.

I launched Company.Guru for marketing our services yesterday, received a few registrations already. Nice return of investment for a marketing page. If you registered a .GURU through NeedName.com let me now so I can add your link to the company.guru page.

And for my personal blog, I am nowhere close to a GURU but I registered anyway because the dot com is a million to purchase. I'm happy happy happy

 

[mjnels]

you're gonna start hearing everyone claim "they are going to develop them" like with .mobi

with .mobi, i KNEW at the time like 95% of the people saying this were full of crap... they always worded it like, "im not selling but if a good enough offer came along........."

LOL

meanwhile, they would have hundreds or even 1,000+ .mobi saying "eventually im going to develop most of them"

yeah right. what sort of meaningful development can you do with that many domains..

 

[Jasonn]

Your views already have the answer you seek from me. When initially, during the hype of "mobi", mobis sold very well for $185k, why do you think, exceptional .GURU domains will not repeat the success for ".GURU" tld and not sell well?

Your job as a domainer is to earn profit from domains. What's 2-3 grand for possibility of earning 100x returns? If you keep sitting on the sidelines and keep criticizing new opportunities, you will never earn anything. You gotta take small and calculated risks as a domain enterpreneur.

Cheer up and buy yourself 1-2 good ones for $30 apiece. :wave:

well you better sell before the hype train passes you by. i spent 10k on mobis and didn't sell fast enough because i didn't need the money and assumed they would only increase in value. i was dead wrong. i think these new gtlds will have even more of an uphill battle for resale since there will be new ones coming out all the time, not a single one to focus on like with previous gtld releases that failed regardless.

take this into consideration. .co sold over 100,000 domains within five minutes of release. it took 2 days just to get to 20k with guru. i am staying away from these. i learned my lesson losing thousands on previous gtlds (xxx and mobi).

 

[Kate]

SD, I think buying the VERY BEST of any extension is NOT gambling. You have heard about Frank Schillings/Mike Mann/Gary Chernoff, right? These domainers made millions buying out domains like crazy and later selling their portfolios in Millions. Now, they laugh at people who laughed at them. Who's the looser at end of the day? One who took action or the one who kept sitting & watching?

The VERY BEST of awful extensions is still an awful domain.

This is where you are wrong. You are hoping for a repeat of the dotcom boom that will never come.
The WWW was new back then. Now the landscape is set.

In ten years your .whatever will not be worth millions, in fact they will be as worthless as they are today. You are never going to retire on your portfolio. I don't believe you will renew them, because you will have to cut losses like all the other domainers. Everything will be clear in one year, and even before.

Incidentally, Frank Schillings is one of guys and has invested $MM to become registrars for some of the new gTLDs. He too must have brains and knowledge to have risked so much money on these gTLDs.

Frank runs a registry and the registry is like the casino: it always wins. So his position is completely different. He's on top of the food chain, you are at the bottom. As long as domainers are buying, he's winning. I agree he's taking a big risk, but he can't be compared to the other domainers because he's playing in a different game. There is no comparison.
You are being taken for a ride by the registries and the registrars. There is always somebody smarter than you

Of all the new upcoming gTLDs, .Guru is one of most generic and better ones.

So it has to be successful ?

 

[garptrader]

Many of the new TLDs will have a select number of keyword combinations that make sense. Even then I see the market more for personal interest sites. A personal trainer might be interested in Fitness.guru while a CPA who prepares income taxes might be interested in Tax.guru. However, the most logical combinations will be quickly taken and even then the end user is likely not willing to spend more than $XXX on such domains. Consequently the upside is extremely limited. Furthermore, one has to keep in mind the challenge of selling such names. If you wait passively by listing it on a site like SEDO or Godaddy Auctions, your name is competing with hundreds or now thousands of other domains with the same keyword. If you decide to market the name to end users, the response rate of... I have keyword.whatever to sell is going to be very disappointing at least for the next few years. Given the large number of new TLD launches this year, I believe opportunities will develop for aftermarket .COMs as there is only so much time and capital domain investors can invest. So if they spend a considerable portion of their time / money on .whatever, the competition for .COM auctions may loosen up a bit.

 

[GoWebnames.com]

Could you provide the link to the source? Thank you!

Also, here is an interesting study on .GURU and similar TLDs: http://www.thedomains.com/2015/09/28/dnpric-es-compares-aftermarket-for-guru-expert-ninja/

It was reported on DN Journal: http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales-working.htm

 

[TheWatcher]

I still own Robot.Guru, and will continue to use it.

 

[Ms Domainer]

I'm just wondering if the numerals are being registered and bought out in .guru.

I have just one, but it's a definite premium (but not at premium prices): 777 [dot] guru.

 

[GoWebnames.com]

I'm just wondering if the numerals are being registered and bought out in .guru.

I have just one, but it's a definite premium (but not at premium prices): 777 [dot] guru.

Best of luck with it, I let it drop accidentally.
Had a $250 offer on Flippa when I auctioned it but I was thinking of selling for much more.
Now with the numerics craze, you may be in a better position.

 

[noonoo1]

I just picked up 99.guru

I like it

 

[iowadawg]

That would be like 1000 threads?
And to what end?

Myself, I see no life, no future, for .guru.

Except of course for the hard core domainer or the newbie who gets sucked into wasting time and money.

 

[Sperry8]

I bought businessdevelopment.guru. That's what I do for a living and thought it'd be helpful to hang my resume/credentials off the domain.

I sort of like .guru (not for reselling), but for experts who work in a certain field. I tried to buy a bunch of others but they were all gobbled up by other people, so there is definitely demand. The others were intended for hold and resale later. Weird that the only one I got was actually the one that I wanted for myself.

 

[Kate]

People who are laughing at new gTLDs will soon be laughing at themselves.

I was laughing when people were buying .mobi domains, .asia .tel .co .eu .xxx etc etc.
Right now I am laughing at the money you guys are burning ablaze. I mean, if you bought these domains for resale and not for development... good luck.

There is no need to listen to people with negative outlook.

Especially when they have some experience and know what they are talking about... Sometimes people need to take a stab to learn

This kind of thread is very familiar, we have one every time a new extension is launched you know

I say new gTLDs are great and soon the prices of some long tail keyword .COMs will come crashing down when Google includes these new gTLDs in their search algorithm.

You believe that the value of domain sales is determined solely by SEO ?

Domain sales data clearly shows that all domains that make sense sell well irrespective of their extensions. Looking at a few sales:

FR.cc sold for $50k
Call.me sold for $26k
Mortgage.asia sold for $23k

You are quoting cherry-picked sales that are not representative.
You'll find flukes in almost every extension.
Have you had success selling .cc or .asia domains lately ?

Consider this:
Why would a company buy InsuranceXyzAbc.com when it could simply buy Insurance.guru widening the scope of its business?

Are you serious ? It's nothing more than a glorified domain hack. Besides, end user already have plenty of choice. A .pro or something else.
An insurance guru ? What kind of beast is that ? :O

 

[-EM-]

Oh boy. This thread makes me jealous of the registries.

Exactly!

 

[DnEbook]

well someone has ……….. india.guru

 

[mjnels]

When initially, during the hype of "mobi", mobis sold very well for $185k, why do you think, exceptional .GURU domains will not repeat the success for ".GURU" tld and not sell well?

because .mobi came out on its own.... we're dealing with like 500 TLD's coming out in the time period when .mobi was out there all by itself.

understand a little better now? the "hype" period is going to be spread a lot thinner in terms of "hype prices"

 

[.NJ]

Im having trouble grasping the entire concept of this extension .GURU in general.

1. Who the hell actually uses the term "guru" in everyday life?

2. Why are people (in this industry) saying this is and will be the best gtld?

I think its time for some to get back out into the sunlight (vitamin D does wonders).

Just my 2 cents..............

 

[johname]

Im having trouble grasping the entire concept of this extension .GURU in general. ..

Its a term reserved for those that do something that takes a lot of experience and knowledge, and they are also good at teaching that skill to others. People can use other words like 'master'.

A perfect dot guru would be yoga.guru

The important thing here is that "guru" doesn't fit everything.

Yet it feels like people are keyword saturating the extension.

This is just the start of the roll out.

Don't blow your domaining bank roll on a bunch of dot guru's