Ranking value of extensions - Help!

[ykdomains]

obviously .com and .net are number 1 and 2 ...

what about .biz / .info / .org - in general, what order do they rank value wise?

thanks in advance for all responses!

 

[asteroidblues]

.com
.net
.org
.info
.biz

 

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[ykdomains]

thanks! will do ...

seeing that big US by your avatar, wanted to ask;

as a Canadian is there any 'way' I can register some .us names?

 

[B33R]

.com - the top dog
.info - my second favourite (32% of my names are .info)
.net - I only have 1 .net - .net doesn't fit well with the names I buy
.everything else goes here - I mean everything else, including CCTLD's
.org - I'd never make a site on .org unless it was a charity.
.eu - just above .biz - I don't like Europe so I don't like the ext. either.
.biz - right the way down the bottom, below everything. Just reminds me of dodgy businesses.

As for regging .us, you need a US "interest" - primarily just a US address but a little more complicated.

EDIT: Here's a quote for you.

Registrants of the usTLD must be either:

• A natural person (i) who is a citizen or permanent resident of the United States of America or any of its possessions or territories, or (ii) whose primary place of domicile is in the United States of America or any of its possessions, or
  
• An entity or organization that is (i) incorporated within one of the fifty (50) U.S. states, the District of Columbia, or any of the United States possessions or territories or (ii) organized or otherwise constituted under the laws of a state of the United States of America, the District of Columbia or any of its possessions or territories, or
  
• An entity or organization (including a federal, state, or local government of the United States, or a political subdivision thereof) that has a bona fide presence in the United States.

 

[Archangel]

This is what I was told awhile back before the .be, .in etc came about. It might not fully apply any longer, so take this with a grain of salt:

.com -- 100% value
.net -- 50% value of a .com
.org -- .20% value of a .com
Everything under -- 2-10% of a .com.

 

[sjaguar13]

.com - the top dog
.info - my second favourite (32% of my names are .info)
.net - I only have 1 .net - .net doesn't fit well with the names I buy
.everything else goes here - I mean everything else, including CCTLD's
.org - I'd never make a site on .org unless it was a charity.
.eu - just above .biz - I don't like Europe so I don't like the ext. either.
.biz - right the way down the bottom, below everything. Just reminds me of dodgy businesses.

I mostly agree with this, except I would put .us after .info and then .net in the same category as everything else. If I had a choice between some ccTLD and .net, I would need to think about which one to get for a little bit. I am not a real big fan of the .net.

 

[peter phillips]

.com and .net would be 1 and 2 respectively.

Then .org
.info
.biz

 

[barefoottech]

This is what I was told awhile back before the .be, .in etc came about. It might not fully apply any longer, so take this with a grain of salt:

.com -- 100% value
.net -- 50% value of a .com
.org -- .20% value of a .com
Everything under -- 2-10% of a .com.

What a LOAD of old Cobblers (circa 1999)
yes should be taken with a grain of salt


.com 100%
The rest depends on Suitablility of TLD to the intended site usage and the Name

.net anywhere from regfee to maybe 75% depending on name and targeted market
.org regfee to 100% or more if suits the targeted site (.org still has some Credibilty as Organization amongst the ill-informed websurfers)
.info 20% to 50% of .com If suits the site (I would never sell nor expect to buy .info for only 2% of .com value )

.biz .cc .tv .ws .us all are capable of high value certainly MORE than 2%
ccTLDs are the same
Try telling a German that hisname.de is only worth 2% of the equivalent .com

Myself I buy Names based on Need,Suitable name and extension ,not on some .COM is Best Mantra

My homesites are
BareFootTech.com.au <<<< For Australia
BareFootTech.net <<<<< For Rest of World
And Yes I own the .com

 

[B33R]

I mostly agree with this, except I would put .us after .info and then .net in the same category as everything else. If I had a choice between some ccTLD and .net, I would need to think about which one to get for a little bit. I am not a real big fan of the .net.

I'll agree with you on that. The only reason for me not including .us or .ca is the fact that I live in the UK and although there's workarounds to get past the "no foreigners" rules, I'm working my way through .com and .info first.

Nice post BTW.

To anyone trying to put generic values on extensions, it won't work. Each name is individual and the circumstances surrounding each name are different. You'll never be able to accurately do it, the prices can vary so much depending on where you're selling, who's buying and what the name is.

 

[Archangel]

Maybe you mis-looked at the fact that I was talking about EXTENSION VALUE, not the apx. value of a domain with the extension. Of course you can't truly value a domain based on extension. ".net anywhere from regfee to maybe 75% depending on name and targeted market" It'd be nice if you could be a little less vague next time around. But yeah, I was told this info quite some time ago. I dunno what actual values are these days, hence the 'grain of salt' thing.

What a LOAD of old Cobblers (circa 1999)
yes should be taken with a grain of salt


.com 100%
The rest depends on Suitablility of TLD to the intended site usage and the Name

.net anywhere from regfee to maybe 75% depending on name and targeted market
.org regfee to 100% or more if suits the targeted site (.org still has some Credibilty as Organization amongst the ill-informed websurfers)
.info 20% to 50% of .com If suits the site (I would never sell nor expect to buy .info for only 2% of .com value )

.biz .cc .tv .ws .us all are capable of high value certainly MORE than 2%
ccTLDs are the same
Try telling a German that hisname.de is only worth 2% of the equivalent .com

Myself I buy Names based on Need,Suitable name and extension ,not on some .COM is Best Mantra

My homesites are
BareFootTech.com.au <<<< For Australia
BareFootTech.net <<<<< For Rest of World
And Yes I own the .com

 

[GoPC]

It is still amazing to me that even after all the extension in the market today, that any name entered into a browser with NO extension still defaults to .com

That alone, makes it #1 in my book.

History and branding makes .Net and .Org #2 and #3 respecrively.

From there on out, it's personal choice I think... I like the .info and .biz extensions but I cannot think of one single business or end user with those extensions OTHER than traffic domaineers or domain resellers.

Honestly, to end-users, grabbing up the extension is a matter of protection more than anything else. They are trying to protect their domains from cybersquatters that will capitalize on and taint their traffic.

I see almost zero value in .ws or .name except that .name could be marketed with NAME domains like JoeBlow.name and so on.

That's my non-trafficking, non-domaineer, end-user view of things.

GoPC