domain Please appraise TaxiApp.US

[effortless]

Hi all, taxi apps are taking off in the US. Am I wrong in thinking that on this occasion, the US ccTLD is actually beneficial? Not only in location, but as a brand call to action?
Taxi App US?
www.taxiapp.us

 

[Klem]

Yes, ccTLD does not hurt you so much in this case. Actually .us is the first ext. I would use for presenting taxy app, besides .com. Also I think it would have much more value for development than sale. So consider between selling and developing.

Good luck!

 

[ArielT]

What is a taxi app? I would like to know what the site would be for

 

[effortless]

Hello ArielT, a taxi app is a smartphone application used to simplify calling or hailing taxis, there are two main ways these work.
Firstly,location based, which will use your smartphones current location and also show the locations on your smartphone of all the taxi drivers using the taxi app in the area.
or secondly, as an interactive taxi directory with click to call, enabling contact with a taxi company in any town or city within two clicks.
This is a highly competitive new industry within the mobile application and taxi markets Worldwide.

 

[ArielT]

Thanks for clarifying effortless, so now I undertand the app in smarphones, but the site what rol would have? as a directory of taxis? or a website name for an app for that?

 

[effortless]

It could either be pointed to an interactive taxi directory or pointed to a location based taxi app, either way, it would be specific to the US.

 

[ArielT]

Thanks again for clarifying although I'm not going to give an appraisal because isn't clear to me if this is going to result interesting for some people and therefore think in buying the domain

I hope other people after reading this thread give you their thoughts

 

[fm1234]

On most phone platforms, the user never sees the URL where the app's data and procese are hosted -- so the domain actually has limited potential in that regard.

It's like the social games -- most of the major game companies only bother with domains to protect their trademarks. Most of the actual traffic comes from within Facebook/MySpace/etc. and the players generally don't actually see the domain name, so the domain has only limited appeal from that standpoint.

As an online directory/comparison, a business site catering to taxi services who wish to be featured on one or more taxi apps, a lead generation service etc. it has potential, but not sure to what extent that would add value to the domain over any other brandable/similar name.

Low value, "domainer" kind of domain in my opinion, ie. low-mid $xx


Frank

 

[stuart_domains]

no value