The .org market

[GoDesign]

Hello,
I have a few decent .org domians that have very decent Overture. i also have my eye on a few more unreg'd ,org's with good OT also.
My question is what is the state of the .org market? i don't see many posts here regarding the .org topic, are they hard to sell on? even good traffic ones?

Thanks.

 

[VURG]

Directi is investing a lot into the .org market. They sell .org domains cheap (below cost) to emerging asian, african and south american markets. I think that the people at Directi don't waste their money and have good reason to invest so much. Last year .org had faster growth in number of registered domains than .com, .net, .info and .biz.

A lot of people think that .info and/or .us will end up overtaking .org in popularity but I think that it's doing a good job at staying the 3rd most popular extension. When I did a survey in namepros on the topic .info and .org both had similar levels of popularity.

 

[Domainate.com]

.info is overtaking .org in amounts of sales I think, but .org still has some high sales now and then. I personally would stay away from it just from my personal experience with them. I've probably had 30, and the 1 .org sale I had was freakish at the time, SixDegrees.org for $2,000. Of course, now that there's a freakin' TV show...

 

[floatingworld]

unless IT related, I prefer .org over .net and think it will strengthen in the longer-term as the non-profit label is increasingly disregarded by end-users. It has a solidity about it which .info (and dare I say it .net) does not have. Vurg's interesting note seems to confirm this trend.

 

[GoDesign]

Thanks for the responses everyone, some very interesting and logical points made.
I think what made me ask was doing so many searches and finding .com/net/co.uk/info and even .ws's taken, yet the .org still sat their, all alone waiting lol. The org's do seem to have a legit and official ring to them, that info's and the likes seem to lack somehow, as has been mentioned.

thanks.

 

[Ringtonebro]

.org is good for selling to end-users