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.

 

[TRY]

I have these three up for renewal. Trying to make up my mind about renewal.

tricycles.us
stockimages.us
curriculum.us

I like tricycles but I doubt you would get an inbound inquiry though. Imo it's a nice niche. Dropship directly to customer, marketing via fb and instagram. Maybe the following article may give you some ideas.
http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/...-went-zero-100k-3-months-discussion-facebook/

 

[distlej]

I have made a few $x,xxx sales of .us domains

The only domains that sell are those that would be worth $xxx,xxx for the dotcom equivalent.
These are big money SINGULAR names in finance, sales, travel, etc.
Also LLL.us english words.

Think of Domains like buy.us , money.us, cars.us, travel.us etc.

Forget the vast majority of 2 word names.
Forget the vast majority of english words that don't have a business application.

 

[GoKaizen]

Recent sales?

I have made a few $x,xxx sales of .us domains

The only domains that sell are those that would be worth $xxx,xxx for the dotcom equivalent.
These are big money SINGULAR names in finance, sales, travel, etc.
Also LLL.us english words.

Think of Domains like buy.us , money.us, cars.us, travel.us etc.

Forget the vast majority of 2 word names.
Forget the vast majority of english words that don't have a business application.

 

[DaveX]

July sales so far as reported on Namebio:

hillary.us 380 USD 2016-07-07 GoDaddy
dedepa.us 109 USD 2016-07-06 GoDaddy
mold.us 180 USD 2016-07-05 GoDaddy
177.us 237 USD 2016-07-03 GoDaddy
299.us 202 USD 2016-07-02 GoDaddy
rentandownlistings.us 106 USD 2016-07-01 GoDaddy

 

[Shea]

[QUOTE="distlej, Forget the vast majority of english words that don't have a business application.[/QUOTE]

Single English words are great. And doing better. IMO almost any English word could have business application, in some sense or anther. Especially when you consider the business of social network sites.

mystery.us 760 USD 2016-05-28
rage.us 500 USD 2016-05-28
unlimited.us 305 USD
delete.us 193 USD
myth.us 111 USD

 

[WGS_Thunder]

Picked up delmarva.us today when it dropped. $4

 

[distlej]

Recent sales?

My most recent $x,xxx .us sale in July 2015.
However, .us domains are only 1/20 of my portfolio.

 

[GoKaizen]

Have you sold .US names for good money @Shea?

 

[GoKaizen]

High or low $x,xxx? What was the industry?

Most recent $x,xxx sale in July 2015

 

[TRY]

I now own .5 percent of all available nnn.us

 

[distlej]

High or low $x,xxx? What was the industry?

Low $x,xxx Most of my sales have been generics but also some in food and domaining niches. I've probably given enough info to identify the domains. However, I still need to keep some of my secrets

 

[distlej]

I now own .5 percent of all available nnn.us

175 lll.us? Interested in selling any? Or swap for dictionary word .us?

 

[Wannabean]

I have a make offer thread open on whisky.us and how little attention it's received probably answers the 'is .us dead' question in the affirmative.....at least for now.

 

[TRY]

175 lll.us? Interested in selling any? Or swap for dictionary word .us?

.5 % is 5. I bought them individually from the aftermarket. They are double repeating numbers like xyy.

 

[Wannabean]

.5 % is 5. I bought them individually from the aftermarket. They are double repeating numbers like xyy.

5 would be 5% of NN.us

 

[wwwweb]

I think .us is great for local businesses, that want to operate within this geo specific region, I own some single word .us, high end words, the offers are $100-$1000 nobody really wants to invest anything more into .us.

I think the big price days are gone, the random outliers will come, and go, but most of the sales being reported are mainly domainers. From an investment, renewal, sell thru rate point of view I don't think the investment to return ratio makes it worth while.

It is an Alt GTLD, if .us can't make it, how can other GTLD's expect to make it?

It represents the highest concentration of connected online users with spending power, it is 2 letters long, it is really to bad, but don't bother fighting the trend, you will end up much poorer than you started off.

 

[TRY]

I think .us is great for local businesses, that want to operate within this geo specific region, I own some single word .us, high end words, the offers are $100-$1000 nobody really wants to invest anything more into .us.

I think the big price days are gone, the random outliers will come, and go, but most of the sales being reported are mainly domainers. From an investment, renewal, sell thru rate point of view I don't think the investment to return ratio makes it worth while.

It is an Alt GTLD, if .us can't make it, how can other GTLD's expect to make it?

It represents the highest concentration of connected online users with spending power, it is 2 letters long, it is really to bad, but don't bother fighting the trend, you will end up much poorer than you started off.

I live in Chicago, I see .us used all over the place, I have yet to see a new gtld. That said it is obvious end users chose their alternative extension, at least in the us.

 

[martinrussell]

I live in Chicago, I see .us used all over the place, I have yet to see a new gtld. That said it is obvious end users chose their alternative extension, at least in the us.

Likewise .CA is everywhere in Canada, and the users ahead of the curve have the .com as well and forward one to the other. As far as "new" I haven't seen any, but question the logic in the Booking.com ad with their tag of Booking.YEAH

On point: agreed that .us could be an afterthought if something "better" is not available. We have acquired quite a few once we have the .com in hand to protect our brands.

 

[Daniel Owens]

.us has been around and will rise in value.

 

[TRY]

Funny you should mention local businesses, I own localbusinesses.us but will probably use it to forward to my NearMe.us.