.link sales report

[mobilespecialists]

I have not found it using the search option so I thought its time to start such a thread.
I'm a big fan of .LINK domains though I was very sceptical to the so called new TLDs.
The reason why I like .LINK though no fan of the new TLDs are:

• "link" has a natural universal relation to Internet. We use sentences like "send me the link". You can combine it with every keyword. And its logical - a link to the keyword.
  
• it's very easy to remember. Its also new so it sounds interesting. It's just sexy
  
• in my opinion it sounds better than "web" as long you are not some working in the web industry
• the word has got common in other languages. In Polish we also say link, in German too. Though for some languages it sounds better than others. For example in general german domains with a keyword and .link sound more natural and nicer than in Polish.

So far I have bought some. Maybe my best is notebooks.link. But jet sold none. Since the domain is at start I was interested in the sales. I really think .link will happen to be a big thing.

 

[JB Lions]

Pretty horrible extension. If I saw site.link, I would think it's just a redirect url or shortener, not a url a real site would ever be on.

 

[mobilespecialists]

Well, the meaning of .com is "commercial". Still Peopple use it for private sites and anything else just because they are used. IMHO Janko.link sounds much better then Janko.com - as a domain for a private website. I know .com is king of prestige but from the logical point of view "Janko commercial" sounds much worse than "The link to Janko" !

 

[Kate]

If I saw site.link, I would think it's just a redirect url or shortener, not a url a real site would ever be on.

Same here. As George would say: what else ?

 

[mobilespecialists]

So if You see http://windowsphoneclub.link You would say this is a URL shortener that does not resolve to any real website? Sorry, I dont get it.

 

[JB Lions]

IMHO Janko.link sounds much better then Janko.com - as a domain for a private website!

C'mon now. Any logical point of view, nobody would say Janko commercial. I've never heard anybody in my life say keyword.commercial. Also from a SERPS point of view if I saw http://windowsphoneclub.link I would be a little leary. Not something most people have ever seen, most likely ever will.

So if You see http://windowsphoneclub.link You would say this is a URL shortener that does not resolve to any real website? Sorry, I dont get it.

It could be a website, any extension can, but it's not where I would build a site on for the reason stated earlier.

 

[mobilespecialists]

Yes, but the reason why is simply .LINK is not popular. It needs pioneers who make the step. I like it and bought my name Janko.link - a simple to remember URL for anybody who knows me - just my name and "dot link". And a nice birthday gift for other people. The longer people see me using this domains the more they start to like them too. (I'm talking about people who dont mind much to domains). I have the feeling for domainers all the new TLDs are a nightmare - and I can understand why.

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Really terrible domain extension if you ask me. I'm not sure that .link or .web are comparable, they're both awful imho.

People are well accustomed to .com .net and other more obscure domain extensions, because 'its a link', 'its sexy' (I strongly disagree, I find it ugly) isn't enoughto convince me that it's a decent extension.

 

[mobilespecialists]

Well, ok, so we know now You don't like them! Lets return to the thread topic - .link sales report. Any good sales so far?

 

[The New Guy]

This is some really bad reasoning to rationalize some really bad potential investments in a really bad extension.

I've never seen a .link site, never seen a link to a .link site, never even heard of a .link site being developed or sold. I can't even find a way to search for .link reported sales on a place like namebio - which has a lot of rarely used extensions as possible search options.

People don't think of .com as standing for commercial. They think of it as being THE internet, especially in countries without widespread ccTLD usage.

If someone ever sees a .link site, they're going to think "Did someone make a typo and include the word link instead of putting the actual link there?"

 

[mobilespecialists]

Well - please note my signature. Just changed it - look at the first .link site http://www.mobilespecialists.link :D (joke - there were other before)

Lets make a step toward a new experience of internet! Forget .com, its the past. People always want something fresh & hip. .LINK is the new craze!

 

[MadAboutDomains]

I just read 2 articles on the top of google regarding .link.

They indicated 18,000 ish .link domains have been registered. They also said that 90% of the names registered are those held back by the registry (Uniregistry) and that 30,000 are on the collision list.

Just from that information I predict that its unlikely there have been any big sales yet. I might be wrong though of course.

Not much of a craze with so few registrations.

 

[mobilespecialists]

Yes, thats the reason for this thread. I know this figures.

 

[MadAboutDomains]

One thing that I find particularly strange about the .link extension is that websites aren't links, they are websites.

If I have quiz.link for my quiz site, then it would only ever be viable to me as a link shortener or something. But the extsion isn't even short. Hmmm

 

[mobilespecialists]

.web is nice. But .link is earlier. Before .web gets strong .link will be king I suppose. .int would be also nice but a little hard to get.

 

[The New Guy]

Lets make a step toward a new experience of internet! Forget .com, its the past. People always want something fresh & hip. .LINK is the new craze!

Delusion seems to be new craze nowadays.

 

[mobilespecialists]

.LINK has potential. I prefer a domain like Cars.link over something like BestCheapCarsOhio5.com but of course its everybodys choice. I'm no domainer, more end-user who happened to make some nice domain deals.

Please, lets fill the thread with the content it deserves - domain sales information for .LINK. It would be great if somebody can share some data here

PS.

Lets make a step toward a new experience of internet! Forget .com, its the past. People always want something fresh & hip. .LINK is the new craze!

A little fun must be!

 

[bmugford]

.LINK has potential. I prefer a domain like Cars.link over something like BestCheapCarsOhio5.com but of course its everybodys choice. I'm no domainer, more end-user who happened to make some nice domain deals.

That is just a false choice. You are comparing a top term in .Link to an awful hand reg in .COM.

First of all any term like "Cars" in .link will never be a hand reg. It will come with a premium price and/or premium renewals.

If you are considering the option of a paying a premium price then you can do a lot better in .COM than BestCheapCarsOhio5.com.

Brad

 

[The New Guy]

Please, lets fill the thread with the content it deserves - domain sales information for .LINK. It would be great if somebody can share some data here

Why don't you fill it?

Probably because you can't. Nobody can. In fact the first match for .link sales in google is...this thread.

That should tell you something.

 

[equity78]

To give you the answer you want, and in full disclosure Uniregistry is an advertiser on my blog, there are no reported .link sales.

Frank Schilling is very high on .Link, many .Link were registered by North Sound Domains who is handling outbound marketing for some of the Uniregistry strings,so like Brad said, no one is hand regging Cars.link.

If you are investing in new gtlds and again for full disclosure I own less than 10 and 0 are .link, you need to look at it you are planting a tree and a tree does not grow to be big and tall in one month or one year, these things may never take off, the bet is that kids will be the ones to make these things pop and they are not the ones buying domains, starting companies and building websites in the present. This is a long term play, sales data currently would be nothing more than an outlier here or there, and I am no hater, I believe some new gtlds will succeed, many more will languish while the registry still makes money. Look at Dot Luxury, Monica Kirchner is making money, I doubt a domain investor will ever make money in that extension, one could argue the extension is not for domain investors and they priced regs at $650 to $800 for that very reason.

 

[jmcc]

To paraphrase General Ulysses S.Grant: .COM has over 114 million domains and .LINK hasn't.

Regards...jmcc

 

[-EM-]

To paraphrase General Ulysses S.Grant: .COM has over 114 million domains and .LINK hasn't.

Regards...jmcc

That's irrelevant.
.com was available in 1985 while .link in 2014
.com had no competition, while .link has beside the old gTLDs an other 1k new gTLDs. Getting registrations now is an achievement.
I'm not saying .link is better but comparing stats like these is just pointless.
If .com was in the new gTLDs, it would have no chance to survive.

 

[mobilespecialists]

Don't know if its comparable to "cars" but I regged notebooks.link - at normal price.

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Don't know if its comparable to "cars" but I regged notebooks.link - at normal price.

Are you starting a 'notebooks' related link shortening service?

 

[mobilespecialists]

No but with this domain someone could make a prefect link to this notebooks selling