April 24 is A Big Day in .US History - The 20th Anniversary of When the Domain Opened to ALL Americans:
https://www.adn.us/news-views/2022/0424.htm
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April 24 is A Big Day in .US History - The 20th Anniversary of When the Domain Opened to ALL Americans:
https://www.adn.us/news-views/2022/0424.htm
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Many people believe that there isn’t much value in the. us for almost all numbers or names. Admittedly, I had somewhat held these same beliefs as well until the Internet landscape began to change dramatically during the pandemic. Many businesses shuddered while others chose to go online to stay in business. What they had in common was that they needed a good domain name. These new online businesses got a rude awakening when they discovered that all of the good keyword .coms were taken. Consequently, they had to compete for second tier .coms made up of a combo business name/business area keyword, or they simply used their company name or something altogether different, and forgettable.
Then something happened. Google and the other search engines kept evolving from the decades old prioritizing of the indexing of .coms to what is being done now, namely, changing their indexing. Most sites need to be crawled now (at least for language) to determine intent. Showing up in search engine results is no longer dependent on having a .com anymore.
The search engines indexing likely evolved, in part, to accommodate the thousand+ new TLDs that have been released (xyz/club/credit/date/wtf, etc.), and the ever-increasing number of businesses and people going online because of the pandemic. The evolution of this change has resulted in non-.coms showing up more and more in search engine results.
Now you don't need a .com. Instead, you can set up a website using a .us, and with the right content language, it can be found in search engines' results. Better yet, the keyword .us domain can potentially be seen on page 1 of the search engines more often now when you search for that particular keyword, just like the keyword .coms.
Certainly, it is great to see a .us end up on Google's page 1 results, but will the person who sees it, click on it? Look at a .us link for yourself. Do you think that a person who starts seeing more and more .us links might feel confident and secure that it is not only a credible and safe site to visit, but one that will be what they have been looking for as well? Of course, they will. The .us link contains, after all, the official TLD of the United States, a country that is recognized worldwide in business and other areas, whereas most of the other new TLDs are not. Businesses and people can now have a much better keyword domain with a .us, and still end up on the same page as the .com one, all for much less money.
Now, here are a few .us sites that evince the evolving Internet landscape. Type in calvinklein.com in your browser. You will be redirected to calvinklein.us. Now type in truckers.com. You'll be taken to smalltransportation.us. No kidding.
Here are .us search engine results using only the following keywords:
-- pixers, pixers.us is Google page 1, (pixers.com site, is an unrelated company)
-- osram, osram.us is Google page 1, (osram.com site redirects to osram .us site)
-- andersoncompanies, "searched "anderson companies," andersoncompanies.us is Google page 1, (andersoncompanies .com site is an unrelated company)
-- hitachi, hitachi.us is Google page 1, (hitachi.com site is the same company, but has different webpages)
-- airfrance, airfrance.us is Google page 1, (airfrance.com site redirects to their airfrance.fr site)
-- clubmed, clubmed.us is Google page 1, (clubmed.com site redirects to clubmed .us site)
-- bosch, bosch.us is Google page 1, (bosch.com site is the same company)
-- shell, shell.us is Google page 1, (shell.com site is the same company)
-- mastercard, mastercard.us is Google page 1, (mastercard.com site redirects to mastercard .us)
-- calvinklein, searched "calvin klein", calvinklein.us is Google page 1, (calvinklein.com site redirects to -- calvinklein .us)
-- ollies, ollies.us is Google page 1, (ollies.com site is under construction, but may be the same ollies company -- as ollies .us site)
-- aldi, aldi.us is Google page 1, (aldi.com is the same company, but has a different landing page)
-- vibe, vibe.us is Google page 1 (vibe.com site not related to vibe .us site)
-- ftx, ftx.us is Google page 1 (ftx.com site the same as the .us site)
-- goodidea, searched "good idea," goodidea.us is Google page 1, (goodidea.com site is not related to the goodidea .us site)
-- zoom, zoom.us is Google page 1 (zoom.com redirects to zoom .us)
-- fwd, fwd.us is Google page 1 (fwd.com is an insurance site and is not Zuckerberg's fwd .us)
-- iwi, iwi.us is Google page 1 (iwi.com site is a blank page, and is not the same company as iwi .us)
-- fvbank, searched "fv bank," fvbank.us is Google page 1 (fvbank.com landing page says buy this domain)
-- oxygen, oxygen.us is Google page 1 (oxygen.com site is not related to oxygen .us site)
I did the same searches of the above keywords using duck duck go (duck.com), brave.com/search, and bing.com search. I got the same results as above. I also did the same searches on my cell and got the same search results. For the longest time it was never like this. Now, it is.
Here are a few more nice .us sites:
Opal.us
Patriot.us
Ows.us
Zep.us
LocalBusinesses.us
ecprof.us --search results for just "ec prof" show google 1st page
about.us
BFA.us
Let.us $14,999 sale
visor.us
bbi.us
DACA.us
The above listed domains are only a sample of what is happening with the .us.
My advice to anyone interested in ground-floor opportunity is to visit namebio.com and look at the more recent sale prices of good keyword domains (not just dictionary words). They are not going for $100 in 2022. They are going for much more. And I suspect that a lot of higher priced sales are not being reported. I've sold many .us for $X,XXX that I picked up for $2.50 to $20 (pre-2022), and I never publicized their sale prices.
On a final note, before 2022 you could find a lot of decent .us domains dropping. That's where you picked up the bargains. Now, not so many, if any.
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