question Is .us dead ?

[noneisnone]

what are the most wanted/easy to sell .us domains ? 3L / Brand able / Generic one word ?

I recently acquired a couple of one word .us but it seems like there is no interest for people holding the same name in other extensions

 

[Bob Hawkes]

I don’t invest or research .us personally, but I think popularity of zoom.us, in top 15 of all sites on web currently according to Moz, may well propel .us demand.
Bob

 

[johnn]

Mostly LLL paid about $5-$15
Sold $500-$1,000

 

[johnn]

I sold a bunch of them.
Just don't tell anyone or the "Reseller Price" will go up.

 

[bmugford]

I sell .US all the time. They key is you need amazing brands, keywords, etc.

I would not suggest someone just starts buying .US (or any other secondary extension) unless they really know what they are doing.

Brad

 

[jhm]

There is a demand for ".us", not just for the United States. Being creative in a sense that "us" could be for social groups, people that stand for a cause..."us". Think about the word itself, to expand the scope of what it is, then add your meaning to it when you market it (just a little pointer)

 

[Brian L.]

Short answer. No... I do well with .US sales. Less than 15% of my domains are .US, but around 25% of my offers and sales are .US.

 

[Brian L.]

@kemjika11
ouch never dealt with .us so thought i would ask from the research i done it seems dead only 3 letter sales ^^
@Brian L.
care to share what type of names attract the most offers ?

I stick mostly with one word .US domains.

My latest sales in .US were:
Decided
Woofs
Divo
Zooms

Sales prices are much lower than a .com, but so is the acquisition cost. The renewal cost of .US domains are reasonable too.

 

[theinvestor]

For a ccTLD to be successful it needs to get use in that country. As far as I’m aware .us has not seen that success. It doesn’t mean it won’t in the future as .com domains will continue to become harder to come by.

 

[kemjika11]

1. Thread title is cynical and misleading
2. You can judge any extension by its sales stats
3. Sales stats are present and show .us is an active,
4. .US is probably not a major extension, but its growing
5. Some domainers ask if some extensions are dead primarily because their knowledge of the extension is dead.
6. .US is obviously an extension with a good investment potential.
7. .US needs time - its still maturing and growing.

 

[Brian L.]

@Brian L. Thats gives me hope Thank you

It’s basically a numbers game. I can register 100 decent .US domains for the price of 1 decent .com. You’re not going to get rich with .US, but it can be a source of fairly steady revenue.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

would love an in-depth article about the subject from you bob

It won't be in next few weeks, but I have put it on my long list of topics. It is worthy of a study I think. Thank you for the suggestion.
Bob

 

[Josytal]

.us is hibernating.

 

[noneisnone]

There is a demand for ".us", not just for the United States. Being creative in a sense that "us" could be for social groups, people that stand for a cause..."us". Think about the word itself, to expand the scope of what it is, then add your meaning to it when you market it (just a little pointer)

interesting point of view

 

[King]

Nope.

 

[ecalc]

“Dead” is in the eye of the beholder but in terms of aftermarket $ share trend, dot us vs all TLDs, Namebio shows the most recent one year penetration of 0.15% slightly above the most recent five year 0.12%.

 

[Brian L.]

@Brian L. understandably so .com will always be king if you don't mind me asking what was the price range ?

Between $297 and $900.

 

[NickB]

still available in .us - few of these wouldn't be to bad for a drop shipping site.....

Hot Pants
U.S Monthly searches 3,600
CPC: $0.52

Negligee
U.S Monthly searches: 49,500
CPC: $0.53

Underpants
U.S Monthly searches: 12,100
CPC: $1.28

Symbology (Symbology Clothing .com is a site)
U.S Monthly searches: 8,100
CPC: $5.27

Agronomy
U.S Monthly searches: 27,100
CPC: $3.39

Quite a few others but these ones just jumped out at a first glance......

 

[wot]

Sold one of my two for $1580 in January.

 

[noneisnone]

I don’t invest or research .us personally, but I think popularity of zoom.us, in top 15 of all sites on web currently according to Moz, may well propel .us demand.
Bob

would love an in-depth article about the subject from you bob

 

[Samer]

Zoom.com disagrees

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Zoom.com disagrees

Despite paying all those $ for the .com to MediaOptions, as far as I can see they still use the .us as their principal site, Samer. They do redirect, and quite probably have future plans to switch. At the very least they have shown you can get huge despite being on a .us.
Bob

 

[noneisnone]

@Brian L. Thats gives me hope Thank you

 

[Linorth]

There is a demand for ".us", not just for the United States. Being creative in a sense that "us" could be for social groups, people that stand for a cause..."us". Think about the word itself, to expand the scope of what it is, then add your meaning to it when you market it (just a little pointer)

yea I get where you are coming from.. I was just saying I personally haven't witnessed any decent websites running on .us as their main storefront. usually its just companies buying their brand's .whatever extension to stop traffic leaking or someone messing with their brand.
so I wasn't questioning the legitimacy of .us as much as its "liveliness" that's all.

but others have pointed out they have managed to make sales on .us domain (albeit smaller sub1K ranges, but still) so what do I know!

 

[kemjika11]

I have .us names like bidders.us, zonal.us, diagrams.us, soapy.us, SideEffect.us, MegaPrize.us and many more like these, yet never received a single offer.

you probably need more quality AND volume for your .us portfolio.