.us .US extensions - Help?

[i-BizCo]

Hi Everyone,

I am sort of new to the “Domain Game” and I have a couple questions for discussion.

1. Are .US extensions worth anything? (Dot Com name already captured.)

2. What about the 4U, 2U and hyphenated names? (I have one.)

I am currently searching for an e-Market name for an online storefront and securing
all the names “I” think are good is getting expensive. (I’m fairly creative.)

I could really use some expertise and help here.


Thanks for sharing and responding to my post,

Bill Maass
[email protected]

 

[bizbj]

I want to say .us have more value than .biz.
All three letter .us have been reg.

 

[.edu]

1. .us are worth something however probably not much as .com
2. number/letter combos don't often do to good unless its mp3.xxx & hyphens are horrible also

 

[vwblubug]

Hi-

I have found that although the .us's are not as popular as the .com, .net, .org extensions, there is quite a bit of demand for them. However, the demand has been fairly limited to one-word domains. I personally think that if a domain works well with its extension and is easy to remember, then there is always someone out there who will find interest in it. As far as the second part of your question, I have noticed that even the letter/number combos and hyphenated .coms are difficult to sell, so I would not expect the .us's of this type of domain to do very well, at least not at the moment.

Good luck to you...

 

[Binfus]

Originally posted by vwblubug
I have noticed that even the letter/number combos and hyphenated .coms are difficult to sell, so I would not expect the .us's of this type of domain to do very well, at least not at the moment.

Again, depends on the name. I've had quite a bit of interest expressed in my New-York.US; non-hyphenated version has been reserved by the registry (along with all other state names) and was never made available to general public!

 

[-OutlawBiker-]

Re: .US extensions - Help?

Originally posted by i-BizCo
Hi Everyone,

I am sort of new to the “Domain Game” and I have a couple questions for discussion.

1. Are .US extensions worth anything? (Dot Com name already captured.)

2. What about the 4U, 2U and hyphenated names? (I have one.)

I am currently searching for an e-Market name for an online storefront and securing
all the names “I” think are good is getting expensive. (I’m fairly creative.)

I could really use some expertise and help here.


Thanks for sharing and responding to my post,

Bill Maass
[email protected]

The .US extension is coming on very strong now. Watch the smoke over the next several months. Will heat up. The reason is that even though there were lots of sales at $1k and up on these and the return on investment has been great, the sellers did NOT want to publicize those sales for fear of the prices moving up too fast. I bot several over $1k myself and just sold another .us for $2500. Now that the landrush drops are over, and the pickings are slim, you'll start to see some reports of decent prices paid.

I'd avoid the 4u and 2u type names, but the myth of hyphen names in the new extensions being of no value is just completly wrong. That myth is perpetuated by commie propaganda, attributing the lack of url-bar type-in traffic from hyphen coms to the other extensions. Who cares? The new extensions aren't looking for url-bar type-in traffic anyway, they're looking for search bar type-ins and the hyphens actually help the search engines parse the keywords.

 

[Grrilla]

And wouldn't you know it! I just dumped a bunch of my strong keyword-hyphen names.
At least I held back on my best- kept my heavy hitters, just in case. :D