*.us.com now being sold by Network solutions

[quality]

Yes I know there are many sceptics on this board who think these domains are rubbish worthless crap. But network solutions is a pretty big name in the domain name field and this will further add to the credibility and visibility of these domains in the future............

 

[DNWizardX9]

Yes I know there are many sceptics on this board who think these domains are rubbish worthless crap. But network solutions is a pretty big name in the domain name field and this will further add to the credibility and visibility of these domains in the future............

.us.com isn't a real extension ....... The owner of us.com is offering subdomains.

 

[quality]

.us.com isn't a real extension ....... The owner of us.com is offering subdomains.

correct...owners of land rent or sell out plots of the land they own....does the rented out land have value ?

 

[neroux]

.us.com isn't a real extension ....... The owner of us.com is offering subdomains.

correct...owners of land rent or sell out plots of the land they own....does the rented out land have value ?

Sorry, thats not entirely correct.

Technically, registering a "usual" domain under .com is nothing else than having a subdomain from the "owner" of .com.

 

[alanchau]

You are aware that your .web.com sub-domains will soon become extinct, correct?

 

[JamesDavid]

HA,

They wanted to charge me $62.50/year for a subdomain... I have a few PREMIUM dotUS names so I figured I would get the subdomain but not at that cost.......

That is crazy....

 

[Spade]

Don't waste your time or money. NSI is just looking for another product, regardless of its quality to sell to its customers.

 

[Kate]

So what's the deal with us.com ? Still in centranic's hands ?

 

[itsbusinessbaby]

it's a SUB domain - not a real, stand alone domain.

i don't see anyone developing anything serious on a sub domain, consequentially, no big bucks for subdomains in the domainer world

 

[lzy]

Here we go again.

 

[neroux]

it's a SUB domain - not a real, stand alone domain.

As I previously said, technically it is a domain just as .com. The difference is it is an SLD and no TLD.

 

[htmlindex]

us.com is a subdomain. Don't waste your money with this crap

 

[monchat]

It is an interesting question though.. I wonder why Network Solutions is offering these subdomains for sale..has it ever offered other subdomains for sale in the past?.. I wonder what makes the .eu.com, .uk.com, and .us.com subdomains different from other subdomains that have existed in the past.... and why networksolutions would choose to sell them if they are not real domains.. Networksolutions is one of the oldest registrars.. with a pretty good reputation...

It could be a cash grab since the domain market is pretty hot right now.. but wouldn't networksolutions have liabilities if the subdomain expired and there were companies with established websites on the subdomains[obviously there could be catastrophic losses to a company who built their business on a subdomain]? Networksolutions has a huge legal department, so I would assume that they have investigated this... I wonder if these particular subdomains are up for a TLD consideration.. or if the company that owns these domains is a rock solid blue chip company (or an affiliate or subsidiary of a rock solid blue chip company) which would make the future existence of these domains guaranteed...

has this ever happend before? The way people speak about subdomains it seems like Networksolutions has taken a huge risk by even offering these names ... something doesn't make sense here..

 

[gazzip]

Hey quality - did you also get the following email recently saying that the .web.com domains will be cancelled shortly ??

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Dear >Me <

As we communicated on October 3, 2007:

Effective March 31, 2008, all Web.com sub-domain services will be discontinued. As a result, your sub-domains listed below will not be operational after this date.

We would like to provide a special offer to minimize any impacts this change may have on you.

You can get a free domain name (ex. blah blah.com) when you sign up for any of your website hosting, do-it-yourself website plan, or do-it-for-you design services plan. To redeem this offer, contact our sales team and mention the promotional code subdomain. This offer is available until 03/31/2008.

Our sales team is available at 1-800-WEB-HOST (1-800-932-4678), Monday - Friday (8:00am - 10:00pm EST) and Saturday - Sunday (8:00am - 8:00pm EST). Alternatively, you can e-mail us at [email protected].

We appreciate your business :lol: and hope this notice will help you prepare for this change, and thereby minimize any inconvenience.

Sincerely,

Web.com Customer Support


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[deleted984054565403]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...US:official&hs=Byt&q=site:.us.com&btnG=Search

 

[monchat]

Interesting search parameters. I modified it for .uk.com and it looks as though there are more search results for .uk.com domains than for .us.com's (something like 31,300 versus 123,000).

Intuitively, I would have thought that .us.com would have been way more popular than .uk.com.. interesting...

 

[gazzip]

Bump for quality !

Yes I know there are many sceptics on this board who think these domains are rubbish worthless crap.

well quality....did you also get the email saying that .web.com sub domains are to be cancelled (see above) ?????????????????????????????????


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[Gerrit]

To answer the question if the domains are owned by a rock solid company: yes, they do.

The subdomain services are provided by CentralNIC who have been in the business for 10 years or even longer. They never had any issues with expiring domains, hijacked domains, crashed servers etc. So the subdomain owners never experienced any more threats than with any "real" domains. Personally, I'd consider CentralNIC as solid as the average "real" domain registrar, and I would trust it more to register a CentralNIC domain than to invest in some obscure ccTLD where policies of foreign registrations may change very soon.

However, the price is a turn off and stops me from buying domains at CentralNIC, even though I do believe extentions like .uk.com and .eu.com have potential. But to ask more money for a subdomain than for a real .com or .co.uk i a few bridges too far for me. The day CentralNIC drop their prices I will probably buy a few subdomains, however I am not willing to pay more than a few euros.

 

[Sam]

wait quality what happened to your POKER.WEB.COM. Keep posting and running!!

 

[Jeff]

Yes I know there are many sceptics on this board who think these domains are rubbish worthless crap.

I agree that ".US.COM" (and ".WEB.COM") are rubbish, IMHO.

-Jeff