.us Success?

[happy]

I was wondering. Has any members developed a .us and had any kind of success?

 

[happy]

Thank you everyone for putting lots of great opinions into this thread! I love .us names for the wonderful relevancy it has in geo targeting. I see people on here get really bummed because they haven't been able to sell there super cool single word .us domains. I agree .us is very limited in the reseller market. Also in my opinion I don't believe product.us domains fit the extension very well (I don't know why I feel this way but I do lol). I believe the absolute best usage (imo) of a .us domain is geo specific targeting. It has always been a dream of mine to own an awesome (and I mean awesome ) American geo targeted website! So a not so long while back ago I began taking the first steps for my dream and collected a handfull of available .us geo names. The name had to be personal to me and I live in Colorado and love hanging out downtown Denver. So I chose LoDo.us (lodo is the short term for lower downtown denver, the historical districts with a million stores) . There is some competition to this though, someone built a very nice site utilizing the .org extension for this term, so I will have to get VERY creative lol. Maybe because I'm an American I have some kind of subconscious bias , but I feel .us makes more sense for geo targeting than .org does. I think you get better points with the serps somehow to (could be wrong, and most likely am lol). Anyways, this will be my first attempt at a successful .us name developement. Please feel free to cut my ideas to pieces (I'm always down for that )

P.s - my definitions of a "successful" site developement is as follows:

1.) I enjoyed myself (I was happy ).
2.) The site created enough money to cover name reg fee and hosting. (No money lost)

 

[TRY]

I got only one .us ......SmartTV dot us....i like .us for domain hacks.....but most good ones are gone

Thank you everyone for putting lots of great opinions into this thread! I love .us names for the wonderful relevancy it has in geo targeting. I see people on here get really bummed because they haven't been able to sell there super cool single word .us domains. I agree .us is very limited in the reseller market. Also in my opinion I don't believe product.us domains fit the extension very well (I don't know why I feel this way but I do lol). I believe the absolute best usage (imo) of a .us domain is geo specific targeting. It has always been a dream of mine to own an awesome (and I mean awesome ) American geo targeted website! So a not so long while back ago I began taking the first steps for my dream and collected a handfull of available .us geo names. The name had to be personal to me and I live in Colorado and love hanging out downtown Denver. So I chose LoDo.us (lodo is the short term for lower downtown denver, the historical districts with a million stores) . There is some competition to this though, someone built a very nice site utilizing the .org extension for this term, so I will have to get VERY creative lol. Maybe because I'm an American I have some kind of subconscious bias , but I feel .us makes more sense for geo targeting than .org does. I think you get better points with the serps somehow to (could be wrong, and most likely am lol). Anyways, this will be my first attempt at a successful .us name developement. Please feel free to cut my ideas to pieces (I'm always down for that )

P.s - my definitions of a "successful" site developement is as follows:

1.) I enjoyed myself (I was happy ).
2.) The site created enough money to cover name reg fee and hosting. (No money lost)

My only geo TampaBay.us

 

[Jon B]

I drive past a Zoom.us billboard on the highway daily. Seems premature to despair over .us.

 

[domainica]

I drive past a Zoom.us billboard on the highway daily. Seems premature to despair over .us.

I used to own Zoom.us. Sold it about 4 years ago.

 

[capiche]

Sold CreditScore.us and CourtRecords.us a few years ago... Not much luck with the other few I held.

It would be nice to see the extension flourish, but it is/was poorly managed and will likely never get off of the ground.

 

[Jon B]

I used to own Zoom.us. Sold it about 4 years ago.

Sick! Someone needs to sell them a logo update asap tho'.

 

[mad409]

Been seeing lots of ads on TV for TENA.us lately.

 

[TRY]

Been seeing lots of ads on TV for TENA.us lately.

They're also spending money advertising on google.

 

[Wannabean]

US just needs some new (better) owners. Did wonders for .co.

 

[lotk]

I 100% agree with you Wannabean. .US has always been dead. I believe that they need to remove the U.S. restriction and open up the tld for anyone to register. Until then I will hold onto the 25 or so I own including Costumes, Contests, Bikers, Adults, Fight, Reward, Rap, Realty, ...

 

[hugegrowth]

I'm surprised .us hasn't done better over the years, could do with more promotion I guess.

 

[DaveX]

I don't know why they have restriction still. It only limits the extension. They have .gov, .edu etc that can stay restricted.

 

[johnn]

Take advantage on the market. I own almost a thousand LLL.us.Bought them very cheap and sold them retail for $xxx-$1,000 each.

 

[Wannabean]

When you consider how patriotic most Americans are, the failure of .us is actually quite miraculous.

 

[DaveX]

I just think the restriction is the only thing holding it back. I think .us could be amazing globally. Just need to remove the restriction.

 

[inforg]

I gave up on .us ever being able to turn a profit for me. Always had high hopes for it, but it has languished for too long and all the new extensions make this just another NOT .com

Keeping a handful that I want to develop for personal interests, but let the rest drop over the last few years.

 

[DaveX]

Yes, I only have a handful of LLL.us that could be profitable. I plan to hold them, but hopefully .us domains will become more valuable in time.

 

[WGS_Thunder]

Yes, I only have a handful of LLL.us that could be profitable. I plan to hold them, but hopefully .us domains will become more valuable in time.

I'm holding some and believe they will be more valuable. They almost never drop and the ones that do aren't good letter combinations

 

[GoKaizen]

Take advantage on the market. I own almost a thousand LLL.us.Bought them very cheap and sold them retail for $xxx-$1,000 each.

Where have you listed/sold?

 

[johnn]

Park them with for sale option.
List them everywhere you can: Sedo, Afternic, etc...
Do not use privacy so end users can find you.