You cannot get caught up with so many IOT related names, sure IOT.com/net/org popular cctlds, they can be all encompassing for a website.
The consumer hears the word cloud, companies like Western Digital market to them using the word cloud.
The Internet of Things will not be marketed in that way on a big scale. So these names are going to be best for B2B, but many companies will be branding themselves, I am not saying there is no value in any of them, but there is no need for someone to own 30 IOT related domains with bad keywords. IOT certainly has a future so those with best of breed domains could do very well.
Security is going to be a major deal, bigger than what most people imagine. Secondly there could eventually be a backlash against the Internet of Things, people will come to wonder why things that don't need to be connected to the Internet are, and open the doors for more security problems. Security type names would be an area I would focus on getting the best IOT related names. Sensor related domains would make sense too since it is all about sensors.
So I see IOTSecurity.com or IOTSecure.com as being worthwhile, but any old keyword that people think because it has search volume has value, probably does not.
The Internet of Things is going to be big no doubt, but like I said earlier when the public comes to understand it or you have some real problems the backlash could make this niche less desirable. If you are going to be a future thinker for investment opportunity you also have to think in the future how it could be a problem or backlash.
Very few people in the public outside of Tech/Domaining know what IOT means, politicians certainly don't. When they start hearing stories about malware in refrigerators or how someone got trapped in their connected home, who knows what will happen. So imo don't go crazy, its going to be big but could go a lot of ways.
From Wikipedia
Criticism
Songdo, South Korea, the first of its kind fully equipped and wired ubiquitous, or smart city is near completion. Nearly everything in this digital metropolis of smart homes is planned to be wired, connected and turned into a constant stream of data that would be monitored and analyzed by an array of computers with little, or no human intervention. Thus, Internet of Things, or embedded intelligence in things, with "smart systems that are able to take over complex human perceptive and cognitive functions and frequently act unnoticeably in the background"[48] is a close reality.
While technologists tout the Internet of Things as one more step toward a better world, scholars and social observers have some reservations and doubts about approaching ubiquitous computing revolution. Peter-Paul Verbeek, a professor of philosophy of technology at the University of Twente, Netherlands, writes that technology already influences our moral decision making, which in turns affects human agency, privacy and autonomy.[49] He cautions against viewing technology merely as a human tool and advocates instead to consider it as an active agent.
A different criticism is that the Internet of Things is being developed rapidly without appropriate consideration of the profound security challenges involved and the regulatory changes that might be necessary.[50] In particular, as the Internet of Things spreads widely, cyber attacks are likely to become an increasingly physical (rather than simply virtual) threat.[51]
The U.S. National Intelligence Council in an unclassified report maintains that it would be hard to deny "access to networks of sensors and remotely-controlled objects by enemies of the United States, criminals, and mischief makers...An open market for aggregated sensor data could serve the interests of commerce and security no less than it helps criminals and spies identify vulnerable targets. Thus, massively parallel sensor fusion may undermine social cohesion if it proves to be fundamentally incompatible with Fourth-Amendment guarantees against unreasonable search."[52] In general, the intelligence community views Internet of Things as a rich source of data.[53]
