.gs domains?

[dhscott]

I paid a visit to GoDaddy today, not a fan of theirs though they do give some the opportunity to register domains which you can't find with your normal registration company.

Now one of these, the .gs domain, the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, is available on GoDaddy. It is run by adamsname.tc, which also handles 3 other domains I am led to believe:

.tc (Turks and Caicos)
.vg (British Virgin Islands)
.ms (Montserrat)
and ofcourse, .gs (South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands)

Now, my question is, seeing as it costs $50 to register one of these domains a year with adamsnames.tc (Plus 17.5% if you live in the EU, like me) but only $34.95 with GoDaddy, would it be worth registering domains to sell on and / or develop?

The .gs domain is in the position that you can have "-INGS" endings as part of the domain. e.g. "findin.gs", so presumably that would push domain price up slightly. But overall, would you invest your money on a domain with the .gs extension or would you not?

Personally I would as it would appear there are many LLL's and many dictionary words left to go around, even with the high registration costs.

Discuss... (Tell me if I have anything wrong too!)

 

[fonzie_007]

I registered credit.gs and flipped it within a month and a half for a nice profit. So yes, there is money to be made with .gs and other cctlds.

 

[CrazyTech]

I picked up software.tc myself - I think the premium keyword domains are more than worth the reg fee. Search engines don't penalize extensions and if you can get a premium keyword domain and develop the site right, you have one powerful tool. If you'll get to looking into the names a bit, a lot of the good keywords have already been picked up.

 

[Sam]

IMO dont waste your money if its not a top 20 keyword.

 

[khuldun]

blo.gs went to yahoo for a lot of money But you whould only work on one word premium keywords with such extensions.