domain exercise.ltd

[silberman]

I realize that .LTD is not a top level extension, but I think it makes a certain sense, is logical from a certain point of view. And maybe, in time, will catch on.

And there is still the opportunity to acquire good keywords. For instance, I recently registered:

exercise.ltd
rockandroll.ltd
selfies.ltd
cleveland.ltd
brunei.ltd
caymans.ltd
scuba.ltd

Am I just wasting my time (and money)?

Thank you for any feedback.

 

[Brands.International]

This is good question. I regged in .LTD only 1 name, and it is Premier.Ltd..I guess some end user might want it as status symbol, or something like that.

Whether LTD will catch up or not nobody knows, but it is not doing bad at all, there are 30k regs at the moment, although majority again from China (see here) When comparing to .COMPANY (see here) it is clear that .COMPANY is now more relevant to western world (15k regs from USA) then .LTD (only 4k regs there from UK). But the data are only few months old, so not sufficient to predict anything.

.LTD does not have expensive renewal (around 13 USD at some registrars), but still I would be careful and get only really premium combos.

 

[james haw]

I think there will be companies who buy them for brand protection. Other than that, it's just another of the thousands of gTLDs imo.

 

[idomainappraisal]

.ltd and the future .inc will be major, major business tld's IMO

We own some of the biggest cpc terms for several industries in the tld, it's one of the new tld's we like

LTD is a major term in business and many of the professionals we deal with are ltd's

So .inc will attract lots of keyword registrations and is great for marketing

LTD will appeal to all the professional LTD's and PLC's their are

 

[Kate]

How many limited companies are called exercise ? Not many I guess.

 

[idomainappraisal]

I can see thousands of PT's personal trainers paying low xxx for exercise in a quite a few tld's including this, since it would be a 'cool factor' on their business cards, like a vanity domain for PT's.

So flippa or ebay it would get high xx or low xxx

LTD is a major term for companies sophisticated enough to understand you can't operate a self proprietorship today, you can lose everything if you do.

So businesses that start to make money and professionals are all LTD's or INC's or PLC's etc

So for business and professionals I actually like this and I'm a .com is king kinda of guy.

Sure we have a lot of .net projects and a few .org and we just did a natural project for .love and we have a .florist project

Our positions in .LTD are basically invest to resell since we have .com or .net projects in all the terms we hold in .LTD

So if you do a lot of work with professionals this tld, is a solid investment, you can't go wrong with major cpc cost professional terms in legal or medical and even real estate.

Outside of the big money cpc terms, yawn, but for a few industries .LTD makes a lot of marketing sense, it could do radio and even TV to some degree, it's a nice tld IMO, and I don't normally say buy or register in most new tld's but this is one of them.

 

[todaygold]

it would be a 'cool factor' on their business cards, like a vanity domain for PT's.

It would stop being cool after they realize they aren't getting clients because 98% of the general population would have no idea how to get to the website.

LTD is a major term for companies sophisticated enough to understand you can't operate a self proprietorship today, you can lose everything if you do.

This is irrelevant. Just because a business is formed as an LTD or whatever, doesn't mean it has to be a part of their business name. Go to Google, Apple, Yahoo, Ebay, etc. does their logo list 'inc.' or 'LTD' or whatever? No.

 

[idomainappraisal]

It would stop being cool after they realize they aren't getting clients because 98% of the general population would have no idea how to get to the website.

Granted most humans are close to 'idiot' level when it comes to the url box today, but a smart trainer would take a prospect's phone, type in their browser exercise.ltd and then hit the 3 bars to put his icon on their phone making him or her LOOK like they have an app on their phone then.

For a business card it has definite cool factor and all the people do is CALL from a biz card anyway

This is irrelevant. Just because a business is formed as an LTD or whatever, doesn't mean it has to be a part of their business name. Go to Google, Apple, Yahoo, Ebay, etc. does their logo list 'inc.' or 'LTD' or whatever? No.

Last I checked Google is now abc.xyz so I can see a ton of companies wanting their name or industry in .LTD if they are a LTD and a huge number of companies are in fact LTD's

I looked at a few of your names

NYCbras.com
ClothingHaul.com

Are these better?

Bras.ltd
Clothing.ltd

I'd rather own the .ltd's above than your com's, but, if you don't like ltd's great, I do and my opinion is based on the thousands of companies I've had as clients over the decades and many were LTD's so to me, it's a no brainer.

 

[todaygold]

Last I checked Google is now abc.xyz so I can see a ton of companies wanting their name or industry in .LTD if they are a LTD and a huge number of companies are in fact LTD's

I guess it's time for you to check again. It has been publicly stated that Alphabet only bought abc.xyz because they could not obtain alphabet.com. Second, Google is still Google. Alphabet just acts as a parent/holding company.

 

[idomainappraisal]

The point is every big .inc will protective register their corp name in the future .inc and the next level of business is .ltd and in that niche, all of them want a keyword like we have, high cost cpc terms and with .ltd their QS by using a keyword.ltd will save them 30% or more on ppc, so .ltd makes perfect sense for marketing, granted exercise is not the level of stuff we hold in the tld, but for a simple vanity sale, it's well worth what I quoted above.ind

Oh, typical budget for an injury lawyer is now 20K a month in a small market since cpc is 60 to 120 bucks a click now.

So with so many lawyers all lined up to pay big bucks, a term like injurylawyer.ltd goes right to the front of the pack and gets a huge QS and more clicks cheaper than anyfirmname.com will ever see, so for SEM and real expensive ppc marketing outside of com/net the .LTD is probably the best business tld now going.

Just my opinion based on my experience.

 

[todaygold]

The point is every big .inc will protective register their corp name in the future .inc and the next level of business is .ltd and in that niche, all of them want a keyword like we have

Well if that is where you see the market going, I suppose that is your opinion. Personally, I'm not seeing a ton of companies jumping on the LTD domain bandwagon. Less than 50,000 have been registered and 40,000 of those are parked. And a quick Google search for .ltd domains shows very few legitimate companies using the extension.

 

[idomainappraisal]

Well if that is where you see the market going, I suppose that is your opinion. Personally, I'm not seeing a ton of companies jumping on the LTD domain bandwagon. Less than 50,000 have been registered and 40,000 of those are parked. And a quick Google search for .ltd domains shows very few legitimate companies using the extension.

The party in .ltd has just begun IMO

Surgeon.ltd
Chiropractor.ltd
Physician.ltd

Just a few of our premiums

 

[todaygold]

Surgeon.ltd
Chiropractor.ltd
Physician.ltd

Just a few of our premiums

How much did you sell those for?

 

[idomainappraisal]

They're going to sedo
We just put into MAKE OFFER here so who knows
Most should be easy lower 5x to end users and maybe mid 5x

We develop in most of these keywords in .com or .net already so they're spec reg's
Well worth the reg fees to add value to our portfolio

co.ltd was sold for over 100K on sedo

So once some of the usual guys get notice of it, there should be some reseller action soon on sedo

We like the tld

 

[todaygold]

They're going to sedo
We just put into MAKE OFFER here so who knows
Most should be easy lower 5x to end users and maybe mid 5x

We develop in most of these keywords in .com or .net already so they're spec reg's
Well worth the reg fees to add value to our portfolio

co.ltd was sold for over 100K on sedo

So once some of the usual guys get notice of it, there should be some reseller action soon on sedo

We like the tld

Ohh, so you are saying not only have you not sold them, but no good offers either yet? And checking namebio, there is only one known 'sale' of an ltd extension...and honestly, I find the co.ltd sale to be a bit hard to believe...it looks like it was 'sold' just 2 days after the domain was created? Not sure what happened with that, but it seems fishy.

 

[idomainappraisal]

Actually, we saw an .LTD thread here TODAY and all the reg's are TODAY

I got a few of my clients interested already, end users we manage huge ppc budgets with

So we may be doing easy mid 5x deals to some professionals that we have been making a lot of money a month with for years.

If you are into professional sem for 50 to 150 buck a click terms, you know that these are.

GOLD

 

[4pm]

Ohh, so you are saying not only have you not sold them, but no good offers either yet?

they are all regged today...

 

[todaygold]

they are all regged today...

Wow, nice call! How could these GOLD domains all of been available to hand register!? You mean no one snapped them up with this great extension?

 

[idomainappraisal]

there is only one known 'sale' of an ltd extension...and honestly, I find the co.ltd sale to be a bit hard to believe...it looks like it was 'sold' just 2 days after the domain was created? Not sure what happened with that, but it seems fishy.

Actually it looks good to me, you can wheel .co.ltd

Sell subs whatever.co.ltd

So yeah 100K should be a legit sale

If there were lots of sales we would not have been able to get all these huge terms today

I'm so glad the tld was missed

haha

 

[idomainappraisal]

Wow, nice call! How could these GOLD domains all of been available to hand register!? You mean no one snapped them up with this great extension?

Yep, reminds me of 1995 or so when I started to do large netsol .com reg's at 100 a pop

First day we did 1,000 of them

This felt just like that today

A no brainer IMO

We might actually start to wheel a few of them

drwhoever.physician.ltd or the chiro or surgeon

could become a development project, but we have so many already, so who knows

if you know business LTD is a logical tld, if you are a domainer that needs prior sales to prove to you a name is worth a reg fee, good luck

If I was you i'd try to start acquiring a LTD keyword portfolio today IF you have some experience in SEM you should be able to make a killing with a few reg's