discuss IF YOU DONT OWN DOT COM YOU DONT HAVE MUCH!

[artstar]

Well after all the hype and hoopla and support ive had over the years trying to support other tlds its now time to admit, IF YOU DONT OWN THE DOT COM YOU DONT HAVE MUCH!

Dot com dot com dot com

No other will do, no other will take its place, no other has its value, no other has a chance against it!!!

I don't care if its now or 20 years from now if you don't own the dot com you are setting yourself up for a loss period end of story!

So to all you newbies, save your $$$$ now and buy or hand reg ONLY dot coms cause if you don't you will find you messed up bigtime!

 

[Bullock]

As a long term investment I agree about .COM.

Anyway, I am giving a little "chance" at .VIP because I've found domains with strong keywords and good metrics. Who knows

 

[bluebox]

Absolutely!

And I'm sure those guys regret owning .net:
https://namebio.com/?s=AO3IzNxIjN

or .info:
https://namebio.com/?s=AM3IzNxIjN

and don't even think about buying .co - everyone knows it's is just a worthless .com typo:
https://namebio.com/?s=AN5IzNxIjN

 

[Haris]

Diversify... imo

 

[vivaldi]

Speak for yourself, your statement is just plain silly and only reflect how little you know of domaining.

 

[GoKaizen]

What about the power of .ORG?

 

[premium_seller]

I don't agree. I know of several brokers doing quite well with new domains with .solutions, .services, .ltd. Maybe not in traditional markets but there are businesses and investors seeking alternative domains. As is the case with good marketing it is a case of finding the right market, at the right price and at the right time.

Just my humble opinion.

 

[Al Cohol]

Couldn't agree more with op.

If your business takes off on .whatever eventually you WILL need to acquire the .com.

The amount of traffic bleed over to the .com will demand it.

Pretty cut and dry if you ask me.

 

[artstar]

dot com reigns, always .

 

[Casey L]

.com, .net, .org - investing

.vip, .gdn, .whatever - speculating

Both are capable of making you money, but one has decades worth of justification. We can all coexist as long as investors don't attack speculators for asking open-ended questions, and speculators don't take offense to everything.

 

[artstar]

I take offense that u suggest im offended lol

 

[iowadawg]

I am offended that someone was offended by someone who offended them.

I am old school....

DOT COM RULES

 

[Casey L]

I take offense that u suggest im offended lol

haha I was not aiming that at you, I agree with you for the most part

 

[NamesBond]

Dot com?

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/top_level_domain/all

'nuf said!

 

[TopShelf Domains]

 

[lakraman]

The principles of investment must be applied to domains as well. We must learn to diversify our portfolio.

Sure, .com may very well be used by 49.2% of all the websites in the world. But that doesn't mean it will continue to dominate.

The reason why .com is so popular is because majority of websites started in US and .com was/is the preference of the american webmasters. And as companies started to advertise their websites, the consumers started getting used to .com.

But lets consider how other countries are progressing their technology and going online. Are Indian consumers familiar with .com? Yes. Are they also used to .in? Yes. Will Google make their default page "www.google.com" or "www.google.in"? It will be the latter.

This is why even the multinational companies make sure to use the ccTLDs when they're serving other countries.

Now lets get back to US.

Everyday there's more and more new business taking birth. Will all of them compete for .com? Sure, that will be their first choice. But if they can't get their .com, they won't just give up. They'll get creative. We are already seeing companies using .io for their homepages.

And the more businesses incorporate .whatever into their advertising, the more the consumers will come to accept those .whatever.

And if you only invested in .com, then you lost the opportunity with the .whatevers.

Domain names aren't always in the market. They aren't always available for trading. They stop trading when the end users buy them.

And as more and more .com's are bought by the end users, they leave empty spots for the .whatevers.

At the end, domain names belong to the end users. And since we only invest in domain names that we think will sell to end users, then if they aren't married to .com, we shouldn't put all our eggs in .com either.

 

[ComboNames]

Absolutely!

And I'm sure those guys regret owning .net:
https://namebio.com/?s=AO3IzNxIjN

or .info:
https://namebio.com/?s=AM3IzNxIjN

and don't even think about buying .co - everyone knows it's is just a worthless .com typo:
https://namebio.com/?s=AN5IzNxIjN

poor guys

 

[ComboNames]

unfortunately it's a serious ridiculous post

 

[artstar]

yup its absolutely ridiculous and look who replied to it!

dot com will NEVER be replaced period

all the other ext r simply a waste of time

ive owned them all made $ in some

com or none is my mantra now

 

[artstar]

Dot com?

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/top_level_domain/all

'nuf said!

I rest my case or should I say nb rests the issue with 1 simple link