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Yeah you heard me right.
I wan't to see the domain industry flourish so i don't always voice my opinions if it's not for something but i think healthy discussions can be beneficial, even for me. I'm always learning.
The other day while networking, a young lady told me she wanted to buy her own birth name but a company owned it and was asking about $700 for it. The first company came to mind was buydomains.com and after researching it I was right. Luckily for her they dropped it and she was finally able to take ownership. Anyway that's not the point of this thread.
What she said next was what I kept saying over and over. She said(to paraphrase), "People keep bringing up .net but I just can't settle for that, i want a dotcom" And she was just upset someone would take her name. The young man next to her agreed and said: " what's that anyways(speaking of .net)" and said "I would even take a .org because it is established for organization" And these are everyday people who are not domainers or anything connected. Just people who would start blogs or startups.
What they said was exactly my thoughts. .NET is nothing more than a side chick and your real woman or man is a .COM. Some domainers like to back it up but I'm calling it out. Before you back it up: show me your .net business site?
Yeah I thought so. You don't even believe in it to use it for your main brand or site. The real reason you back it up is because you own a couple liquid .nets that can be traded between domainers.
The next argument is ohh, but .net is old and has more registrations than .org etc.. so that makes it second.. The truth is even a .org is more established because everyone even non domainers know what it's for. The real grade we should use to determine what is second to .com is not registrations but how many sites are built in proportion to registered domains. That will tell you the real truth.. Apart from media.net(when i was searching hard to find an alternative to adsense), It's been over a year since i have ran into a .net website/legitimate business?
I have even seen .com and .net available but .org registered? That baffled me..That say's even .org is more solid for someone to not care about the .com. But that's a side observation. I own a dotnet and I'm not saying you wont sell if you own a dotnet.. It's just very overrated. I guarantee if you go to your non domainer friends or people in the street and ask them what domain extansion they would choose for their business, I guanrantee they would almost all say .com or.org. I only see .net as an internal trading domain ext.. like maybe a lll.net etc..
Honestly, the chinese will have to rescue this extention and give it some life...yes buy the chips. But even that is just internal trading..The chinese have had .net landing pages with nothing on them since the dawn of .net.
This is not an attack just my honest opinion that .NET is side chick.. And that's a compliment, because atleast people use side chicks... ohhhhhhh
I wan't to see the domain industry flourish so i don't always voice my opinions if it's not for something but i think healthy discussions can be beneficial, even for me. I'm always learning.
The other day while networking, a young lady told me she wanted to buy her own birth name but a company owned it and was asking about $700 for it. The first company came to mind was buydomains.com and after researching it I was right. Luckily for her they dropped it and she was finally able to take ownership. Anyway that's not the point of this thread.
What she said next was what I kept saying over and over. She said(to paraphrase), "People keep bringing up .net but I just can't settle for that, i want a dotcom" And she was just upset someone would take her name. The young man next to her agreed and said: " what's that anyways(speaking of .net)" and said "I would even take a .org because it is established for organization" And these are everyday people who are not domainers or anything connected. Just people who would start blogs or startups.
What they said was exactly my thoughts. .NET is nothing more than a side chick and your real woman or man is a .COM. Some domainers like to back it up but I'm calling it out. Before you back it up: show me your .net business site?
Yeah I thought so. You don't even believe in it to use it for your main brand or site. The real reason you back it up is because you own a couple liquid .nets that can be traded between domainers.
The next argument is ohh, but .net is old and has more registrations than .org etc.. so that makes it second.. The truth is even a .org is more established because everyone even non domainers know what it's for. The real grade we should use to determine what is second to .com is not registrations but how many sites are built in proportion to registered domains. That will tell you the real truth.. Apart from media.net(when i was searching hard to find an alternative to adsense), It's been over a year since i have ran into a .net website/legitimate business?
I have even seen .com and .net available but .org registered? That baffled me..That say's even .org is more solid for someone to not care about the .com. But that's a side observation. I own a dotnet and I'm not saying you wont sell if you own a dotnet.. It's just very overrated. I guarantee if you go to your non domainer friends or people in the street and ask them what domain extansion they would choose for their business, I guanrantee they would almost all say .com or.org. I only see .net as an internal trading domain ext.. like maybe a lll.net etc..
Honestly, the chinese will have to rescue this extention and give it some life...yes buy the chips. But even that is just internal trading..The chinese have had .net landing pages with nothing on them since the dawn of .net.
This is not an attack just my honest opinion that .NET is side chick.. And that's a compliment, because atleast people use side chicks... ohhhhhhh
