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]

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[TRY]

It does seem that .us has lost its popularity even in the United States. I say it it best to stick to .com if at all possible.

How can .US lose its popularity if it was never popular? Of course .com is the most preferred extension of all, but what do you do if you can't find the.com you want, get a new gtld LOL?

 

[JB Lions]

Overall increase with periodical rise and falls is a typical pattern seen. It is called cycling. You've left out a lot of necessary information to understand the line graph.

Is this new registrations, or renewals, or current existing registrations,. Drops from investors can skew statistics. Other information is needed to make a conclusion. Also, is this information just with the registry enom, or is this information for all registry? You need to provide more information.

When you ask, "Do you mean you expect some crowd to come and people who are investing now are before them? What crowd exactly?" (Lions)..... Umm, I never mentioned a crowd and the question sounds pretty silly.

When you ask "Can you guys point to any data whatsoever in that happening? I posted some showing otherwise.".(Lions).....Umm, your data didn't show otherwise and doesn't provide enough information because you left it out. Also, I don't know who "you guys are"... but I'd like to know who the other guy is with me.

I gave references before hand... Refer back to my previous post.

It's not called cycling, it's called dropping.

2 years ago, April 2014, 1.83 million - http://www.hosterstats.com/DomainNameCounts2014.php

Today 1.67 million - http://www.registrarstats.com/TLDDomainCounts.aspx

Some of the reasons why people have referenced older threads on .us, is because you're saying the same stuff as other people have over the years. Take some time and read them and you'll see. They had less competition back then. You notice they're dropping as the new gtlds are coming out. More options (competition) in the extensions people settle for category.

 

[DNScholar]

It's not called cycling, it's called dropping.

2 years ago, April 2014, 1.83 million - http://www.hosterstats.com/DomainNameCounts2014.php

Today 1.67 million - http://www.registrarstats.com/TLDDomainCounts.aspx

Some of the reasons why people have referenced older threads on .us, is because you're saying the same stuff as other people have over the years. Take some time and read them and you'll see. They had less competition back then. You notice they're dropping as the new gtlds are coming out. More options (competition) in the extensions people settle for category.

Good research.

I think .US will consolidate around 1 million names because now it has to also compete with nTLDs.

 

[DNScholar]

But still 1 million is lot of names

 

[TRY]

But still 1 million is lot of names

If you stacked up 1 million domain names on top of each other it would reach the moon and back 16 times

 

[DNScholar]

If you stacked up 1 million domain names on top of each other it would reach the moon and back 16 times

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[Recons.Com]

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[GoKaizen]

I know @Duke has a lot .US domains. What is his opinion?

 

[kemjika11]

.US isnt dead, you all are just unconscious..

 

[dordomai]

But still 1 million is lot of names

Reg Numbers alone rarely tell the whole story. You have to look at sales and development numbers to get an idea where an extension stands. If you do that with the new gtlds for example you will see that they are mostly failing despite the hype.

 

[FUTRS]

believe me - i wish .us would do something to wake everybody up. i have:

• 3dPrinting(.)us
and
• 3dPrint(.)us

that last one is like a fun hack too

I don't see how these can't sell for low $xx,xxx (or higher)
are there a even hundred things bigger than 3d Printing in today's world?

 

[Shea]

Reg Numbers alone rarely tell the whole story. You have to look at sales and development numbers to get an idea where an extension stands. If you do that with the new gtlds for example you will see that they are mostly failing despite the hype.

I agree... There are many, many developed websites with .US extensions. And this trend is continuing. There is a lot of hype in the the new gTLD. And this is mostly artificial hype, fluff and dumb kind of stuff, and often movements in markets created by the stakeholders behind the new gTLD.

 

[GoKaizen]

the most important in my opinion are local, state and national government sites on the extension. My own state of Texas uses state.tx.us as the basis for most of the state branch sites. Texas workforce commission as an example - http://www.twc.state.tx.us/

This use lends a lot of credibility and inherent trust to local and generic industry sites on .us in the U.S. I own a few generics, such as Insurance.us, and get regular emails asking about related government programs assuming the domain is owned by a government agency.

Morgan Linton has made similar comments about the .US extension. Only government institutions used to be able to use the .US domains, that makes it ideal for certain projects.

 

[ben pedri]

I think domain can sell for any amount ,but I wouldnt go out and bet the ranch on anything but dot com and for that matter why take a shot with alot of money on anything when some idiot can award your domain to anyone else like the guy who lost a 3l.com to a company that dident even exist till 3 years after the poor guy registered it

 

[betthelot]

No Trump is going to make dot US great again

 

[forge]

No Trump is going to make dot US great again

Speaking of hacks, I like the .US extension for domain hack possibilities. I have one or two.

 

[nomen]

It's rather strange that .US is used so little in US as there's a lot of inheritent trust, credibility and brandability in the United States 'brand'.

 

[DomainerY]

I don't think .us is dead, It still in use

 

[inv]

.com mean nothing.
.us mean United States.

.us is very good extension for investment.