question The chances of selling a .net or .org domain when the .com is on sale.

[Molly]

Hi guys. Should I assume that if an identical .com is on sale, selling a .net or .org is pretty unlikely? Is it so unlikely that you might avoid acquiring the alternate extensions at all…? Thanks for your time.

 

[Future Sensors]

You need to get a feel for which organizations would like to have a .org. Think of good causes, charities, interest groups, societies, alliances, foundations, and more.

In some cases the .org is actually better.

Please continue to focus on .com.

 

[biggie]

Should I assume

Hi

No, never make general assumptions about or for, those types of scenarios.
as each case has to be analyzed separately.

imo...

 

[Daniel Owens]

For good causes, charities, interest groups, societies, alliances, foundations, and more you might end up donating the domain for free to a worthy cause if they are non-profit.

 

[Future Sensors]

For good causes, charities, interest groups, societies, alliances, foundations, and more you might end up donating the domain for free to a worthy cause if they are non-profit.

Sure, you can give away your .org domains for free if you like.

You can also give away your .com domains for free to startups that say they have no money. They probably need the domain more than you do.

Non-profit and not-for-profit certainly doesn't mean that there's no money involved. Often, there's a lot of money involved and directors are well rewarded. Especially when large commercial vendors create an alliance together.

I'm not talking about obvious infringements of rights of those organizations either. Stay away from this (you know already, just saying). Just nice generic domains based on short, simple dictionary pre- and suffixes with .org added to the end.

Happy investing.

 

[Kali42]

Sure, you can give away your .org domains for free if you like.

You can also give away your .com domains for free to startups that say they have no money. They probably need the domain more than you do.

Non-profit and not-for-profit certainly doesn't mean that there's no money involved. Often, there's a lot of money involved and directors are well rewarded. Especially when large commercial vendors create an alliance together.

I'm not talking about obvious infringements of rights of those organizations either. Stay away from this (you know already, just saying). Just nice generic domains based on short, simple dictionary pre- and suffixes with .org added to the end.

Happy investing.

Directory and Employees of Charity Organization are very Well Paid...

 

[pb]

@Molly That depends entirely of what is to the left of the dot, as well as on the price of said .com.
If StrongKeyword.com is on sale for several million dollars, .net and .org might still be worth hundreds of thousands.
If SomeRandomKeywords.com is for sale for $1k, then yes, .net and .org are probably not worth it from investment perspective.

 

[bmugford]

Hi guys. Should I assume that if an identical .com is on sale, selling a .net or .org is pretty unlikely? Is it so unlikely that you might avoid acquiring the alternate extensions at all…? Thanks for your time.

It depends on price.

If the .com is 500k and the net/org is 5k, they are not really competing against each other.

If they are in similar price ranges, the .com is obviously most likely to sell.

Brad

 

[bmugford]

There are also times when some end users might actually prefer .org over .com. It just fits better with certain terms and fields.

Brad

 

[bmugford]

On a side note, new investors should generally stick to .com IMO.

It's hard enough for seasoned investors to make money with secondary extensions.

With .com, really any decent term has a good chance to sell.

Brad