Is .US dead (??)

[Yong1]

Is anyone still investing in .US domains?

Has anyone sold any .US domains lately?

Where would you sell them?

Obviously in the .US .com is king too, but I have seen at times .us being used by different companies.

 

[JB Lions]

Its not a .whatever it's America's only cctld, each country only has one. Anyways its in my personal interest to let you dissuade domainers from investing in .us. that said their is enough information in this thread to make an informed decision.

well, America has .com. And what matters, sales - https://namebio.com/?s=wNxgTM1ATN

only 4 reported ones this month for:
$102
$166
$295
$105

And people are free to report their own .us sales that aren't in those reports in this thread, so where are they at? Specifics.

Wherever you feel .us is at right now (which is not good), I've yet to see anybody give good reasons why it'll get better.

 

[artstar]

Its not a .whatever it's America's only cctld, each country only has one. Anyways its in my personal interest to let you dissuade domainers from investing in .us. that said their is enough information in this thread to make an informed decision.

im making an informed opinion period. im not trying to influence or dissuade anyones choice to spend their money on a cctld that is basically pathetic in performance.

whats the highest selling dot us domain to date?

I just see it as a wasted ext that had potential due to the size of the population and businesses etc but it has obviously been a loser and most likely will continue to be unless something major happens but highly unlikely now due to the huge number of tld choices out there

 

[TRY]

well, America has .com. And what matters, sales - https://namebio.com/?s=wNxgTM1ATN

only 4 reported ones this month for:
$102
$166
$295
$105

And people are free to report their own .us sales that aren't in those reports in this thread, so where are they at? Specifics.

Wherever you feel .us is at right now (which is not good), I've yet to see anybody give good reasons why it'll get better.

Most end user sales are not reported on namebio, for example my sale a couple weeks ago of a 1 word generic .us eclipses those sales tenfold.

 

[TRY]

im making an informed opinion period. im not trying to influence or dissuade anyones choice to spend their money on a cctld that is basically pathetic in performance.

whats the highest selling dot us domain to date?

I just see it as a wasted ext that had potential due to the size of the population and businesses etc but it has obviously been a loser and most likely will continue to be unless something major happens but highly unlikely now due to the huge number of tld choices out there

We all have our opinions, as for new gtlds you may think they will hurt .us but I believe they will help .us as endusers will want a credible extension they can trust. Would you trust your livelihood on a newgtld? Not me, considering what they can and have done to their customers such as raising their renewal exponentially, etc.

 

[JB Lions]

Most end user sales are not reported on namebio, for example my sale a couple weeks ago of a 1 word generic .us eclipses those sales tenfold.

What sale?

Would you trust your livelihood on a newgtld?

No, that's why you go .com.

 

[TRY]

What sale?

The client hired a broker to keep anonymity, even the escrow showed the brokers info and the client as anonymous. But of course the whois since it had to be public showed me his info. Anyways because of that I'm not comfortable disclosing the domain name unless I asked him first, and I'm not going to call and get his permission. That said you may or may not believe me and I completely understand. I will give a hint though, it starts with dis and is 10 letters long.

 

[TRY]

No, that's why you go .com.[/QUOTE]

We're talking about the best alternatives to .com in the us. I only see a few viable options such as .net, .org, and .us.

 

[artstar]

ive finally learned my lesson, gc has said it for years..

DOT KONG all the way!!!!

.us, ca co, xyz club. online website tech on and on I wont touch ever again!I own 150 domains in these tlds and am done wasting $ and time on any of em!!!! just saying,.......

I only bought due to cheap reg fees so my investment was very low but im pissed I never used that for 15 dot coms.

but I know better now

 

[Alice Wonder Miscreations]

I was told by a domain Guro whom I trust that as a ccTLD .US is the least valuable.

The .us I bought (only one) I bought because it was very short and because it is technically owned by US government, it can't restrict content due to the first amendment. ccTLDs like .io and .ly etc. can and do restrict content.

 

[TRY]

http://whois.domaintools.com/estore.us
aargh! Can someone explain this to me.

I had my eyes on estore.us but seems like snap names picked it up and the whois says its registered for another year. BUT the whois still says EXPIRED. Is that normal?

 

[Cdomains]

http://whois.domaintools.com/estore.us
aargh! Can someone explain this to me.

I had my eyes on estore.us but seems like snap names picked it up and the whois says its registered for another year. BUT the whois still says EXPIRED. Is that normal?

Give it time, it will update with the correct info.

Also, every whois service has different information and refreshes and updates at different intervals.

 

[TRY]

Give it time, it will update with the correct info.

Also, every whois service has different information and refreshes and updates at different intervals.

Thank you

 

[youyouv220]

The key is to find a .com company loacted in the us using a a low quality domain name.com for example:
if a company's website is play-us.com and in this case you own play.us, you can contact them explaning that using the .us will bring them more traffic since it is a generic keywork and it will rank better in google and here you will make money!
I am talking from a recent experience where I did this strategy and it did work!
The company ended up keeping bth domain names and setup a redirection from the .us to the .com to get extra traffic.
I bought the domain for mid XXX and sold it to them for low 2XXX

 

[easternaga]

got one
voile.us

 

[CJ6]

I have 1. I use it as a URL shortener for my personal .com website. I plan on keeping it. (It's actually my username here, a CCC)

 

[youyouv220]

I have Bed.us
That I will keep for ever :P

 

[Cdomains]

That I will keep for ever

Yes you will.

 

[Zona]

Great recap of the annual .us day at GoDaddy.

Cash.us closes at $20,100 amid a ton of .us expiring auctions

http://www.thedomains.com/2016/05/28/cash-us-closes-20100-amid-ton-us-expiring-auctions/

 

[mad409]

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[cdboard]

godaddy has .US for about $3 today, so I picked up three