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.

 

[kemjika11]

From DNJ:

Afternic.com

got on the board by selling #17 (tie) DXR.us

.US cant be dead,because no country with a strong, big rich economy has a "dead" extension. Also, lets not forget the US' population is growing and isnt small. US is heading for 400M population.

 

[Kate]

Just to give you an idea of how lagging .us is: tiny Belgium has almost as many domains registered as .us...

Canada has almost 2.5M registrations, .us: <1.8M

 

[TRY]

Just to give you an idea of how lagging .us is: tiny Belgium has almost as many domains registered as .us...

Canada has almost 2.5M registrations, .us: <1.8M

Considering they're money is worth less than ours I think that makes it about even

 

[TRY]

Just to give you an idea of how lagging .us is: tiny Belgium has almost as many domains registered as .us...

Canada has almost 2.5M registrations, .us: <1.8M

@Kate . I'm curious to know if you own any .us or plan to?

 

[Kate]

@Kate . I'm curious to know if you own any .us or plan to?

Sure we still own some .us, made some good sales like eat.us. But it's still an unpopular ccTLD.

 

[TRY]

Tampabay.us - Development has begun

 

[GoKaizen]

Where can you see stats for .BE and .CA?

Just to give you an idea of how lagging .us is: tiny Belgium has almost as many domains registered as .us...

Canada has almost 2.5M registrations, .us: <1.8M

 

[TRY]

Just to give you an idea of how lagging .us is: tiny Belgium has almost as many domains registered as .us...

Canada has almost 2.5M registrations, .us: <1.8M

A small country like belgium has so many .be registrations because .be is popularly used for hacks.

1) .ca offers private registration,
2) .com in canada is not as popular as it is in the u.s.
3) 1 and 2 are constantly brought up as reasons why .us doesn't take off, if that's the case then this was not a fair comparison.
4) number of registrations does not give the extension value or else I would have been investing in .xyz.

In general I think cctlds have value relative to the countries they represent,
exceptions being cctld's that have a hybrid use such as .me, .tv, .be,...

 

[kemjika11]

Just to give you an idea of how lagging .us is: tiny Belgium has almost as many domains registered as .us...

Canada has almost 2.5M registrations, .us: <1.8M

Once we consider that .com IS America's extension, we realize .US is doing Ok. What if US didnt use .com as their main extension? i bet .US would be over 5M or so registrations. lol. I am not making .US to be a saint or ccTLD with the best potential, but i think its been having a dormant moment recently, but like everything else, it wont last forever. I am confident its rebound is coming...but if and when it does, i'll surely ignore those who thought and assumed .US was completely done for.

 

[Kate]

Where can you see stats for .BE and .CA?

On the official registry websites: cira.ca, dns.be.

A small country like belgium has so many .be registrations because .be is popularly used for hacks.

They are mostly used by Belgians, not for hacks...

3) 1 and 2 are constantly brought up as reasons why .us doesn't take off, if that's the case then this was not a fair comparison.

Outside the US, the local extensions are often preferred over .com. And they enjoy high penetration rates. For example, .nl has 5M+ domains for 16M inhabitants. If .us was as popular as .nl, it would be as big as .com.

 

[GoKaizen]

Dns.be and .us provide statistics. Cira.ca seems to just post total registration numbers.

 

[Kate]

That's it, use the current registration numbers vs population count, then you can compare TLD adoption rates between different countries. For example there would be approx 1 .us registered for every 200 Americans. In .nl it would be one name for 3 people. Now you can see the gap in popularity.

If .us was as popular as .nl, it would be as big as .com.

 

[TRY]

That's it, use the current registration numbers vs population count, then you can compare TLD adoption rates between different countries. For example there would be approx 1 .us registered for every 200 Americans. In .nl it would be one name for 3 people. Now you can see the gap in popularity.

If .us was as popular as .nl, it would be as big as .com.

So why do you hold onto your .us domains if your so against it? And as adamant as you are to dissuade others from .us I would assume you are not registering/aquiring any others? This may be personal question but how many .US do you own and can you give a couple examples?

 

[JB Lions]

-other thread

 

[TRY]

-other thread

So do you own any 3 letter .us?

 

[TRY]

If you own .us domain names and bash the extension it either makes you a hypocrite or a man with a plan (agenda) imo.

 

[JB Lions]

So do you own any 3 letter .us?

I used to own a lot of .us back in the day, including some of those. But they didn't sell well and I knew with new gtlds coming on, what little value they had would most likely just decrease even further. Couldn't think of 1 reason why it would go up, so I either sold them all or let them expire.

As an example, one of my .us sales threads from 3 years ago, I had geos, pets, 1 word food domains I couldn't sell for $10. And that was before all these new gtlds came out.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/us-sale-10-each.787503/

 

[Kate]

I'm not knocking down .us, but I am saying that it is a weak TLD, and I would not recommend buying heavily for investment purposes. Did I buy any ? Yes, for a long time (at least 10 years). I have mainly bought LLLs and some semigenerics. Did I make sales ? Yes a few good sales (example: eat).

People always say give it more time, .us (or some other extension) will rise, it's a sleeping giant etc, but 10 years ago the conversation here at NP was no different. .us is still not mainstream like in the other countries (at least Western countries).

I am very pro-ccTLD, and it is sad that .us cannot be on par with the stars like .de or .uk. There are many historical reasons for that, already discussed elsewhere. I am not American, and it is ironic to see that those embracing .us are foreigners, it is also foreign companies that advertise .us nationwide, because they use ccTLDs extensively and are not biased toward .us. To them it's just another ccTLD.

Of course, the TLD is growing a bit, but almost all TLDs experience natural growth. .us is not catching up with the other extensions and I don't see a particular reason why the adoption rate would soar in the future.
Just trying to be realistic. Each market is different. Some ccTLDs are hugely popular and even dwarfing .com in their respective markets, other ccTLDs are moderately popular, some are zombies. .us is somewhere between #2 and #3.

 

[TRY]

I'm not knocking down .us, but I am saying that it is a weak TLD, and I would not recommend buying heavily for investment purposes. Did I buy any ? Yes, for a long time (at least 10 years). I have mainly bought LLLs and some semigenerics. Did I make sales ? Yes a few good sales (example: eat).

People always say give it more time, .us (or some other extension) will rise, it's a sleeping giant etc, but 10 years ago the conversation here at NP was no different. .us is still not mainstream like in the other countries (at least Western countries).

I am very pro-ccTLD, and it is sad that .us cannot be on par with the stars like .de or .uk. There are many historical reasons for that, already discussed elsewhere. I am not American, and it is ironic to see that those embracing .us are foreigners, it is also foreign companies that advertise .us nationwide, because they use ccTLDs extensively and are not biased toward .us. To them it's just another ccTLD.

Of course, the TLD is growing a bit, but almost all TLDs experience natural growth. .us is not catching up with the other extensions and I don't see a particular reason why the adoption rate would soar in the future.
Just trying to be realistic. Each market is different. Some ccTLDs are hugely popular and even dwarfing .com in their respective markets, other ccTLDs are moderately popular, some are zombies. .us is somewhere between #2 and #3.

I also don't recommend people buy heavily in .us or any other alternative extension to .com. I do however think people should at least study the drops and register not any word but at least a good one word .us while they still have the opportunity to get them at reg fee..it's a once in a blue moon opportunity that is quickly fading away. Sharing is Caring

 

[Shea]

That's unfortunate. I know a lot of people jumped into the .us perhaps too soon.
I think the same thing has happen with the .xyz
But the usTLD is unique and not replicable. As it ages it will increase in value.
And there will be a ROI so long as domains are held long enough (I'm talking about premium names here, words, industry, lll, nnn..not just any domain name). The slower take off in comparison to global TLDs including ccTLD without restrictions, is due to policy restrictions held on the usTLD.

In theory, the gTLD or unrestricted ccTLD should have a potential market the same size as the global population. However, the usTLD has a potential market the size of the U.S population plus anyone else who fits the requirements.

So it stands to reason that usTLD would have a slower take off.. But I think its growing stronger. And will eventually take off exponentiallyl, in a boom. And as reistrctions loosens (for example privacy policy), or even if they don't.. you are going to see an increase in value.

I think that has been shown over the last month and is a great point in case.