What will be the biggest flop in '08?

[jacal1]

By the way, this IS an "official" thread - in case you were wondering :hehe: .

My guesses for biggest flops:

dictionary words with no commercial connection

.us

.tv

"brandable" nonsense words

LLLLs in anything but .com

all but the 4-5 biggest silent auctions (or was that '07?)

.biz (or was that '06?)

 

[filter]

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.ASIA will be massive, you cant simply put aside the worlds largest nations, and fastest growing economies, how anyone can honestly believe .ASIA will flop is beyond me!

so I guess it will follow the way to massive trans-continental success paved by .eu ...?

 

[jmcc]

so I guess it will follow the way to massive trans-continental success paved by .eu ...?

Now that's just evil. Funny though. The .asia registry so far seems to be far more clueful than the morons in Eurid. I think that .asia is currently around 13K active domains in pre-landrush (zone).

Regards...jmcc

 

[zero_haze_au]

Dot Asia in its earlier sunrise phrase has seen more than 100,000 .asia trademark / company domains being successfully accepted.

Thank you very much ! :hehe:

 

[Kate]

haha. almost everyone who says .asia will be a flop are those living in a non-asian country, e.g America where they are unable to register a .asia name :hehe:

.ASIA will be massive, you cant simply put aside the worlds largest nations, and fastest growing economies, how anyone can honestly believe .ASIA will flop is beyond me!

LOL

The Asian nations won't care about .asia, they have the gTLDs and their own ccTLDs. Do you believe in such a thing as Asian identity ?
I pretty much doubt the Chinese, the Koreans, the Thai or the Australians feel like they belong to a large family. How do you feel as an Australian (?)

.eu on the opposite represents a more integrated block of countries yet it's struggling. Why would .asia fare any better while most Asian countries are not English-speaking.
The only obvious purpose for .asia is for large organizations who want to establish global (continental) presence. But with .com you already have a more global TLD... so we have another junk TLD where large corporations will register their name just for defensive purposes.

.asia will be a flop like .name, and I could even reformulate your argument like this:
".name will be massive, you cant simply put aside the worlds 6 billions human beings". It means nothing.

Good luck with your investments.

 

[lavista4u]

Its not in the name ...empty vessals make much noise..

Common guys..who would have EVER thought a name like Google would be popular..

Just cut past the 9 years of google and assume we have a google name now..will it be a flop in 2008 ??

99% of the world population never heard of a name google and it meant 1 followed by 100 zeros or something...common who would be crazy enough to think such a lousy name...1 followed by 1000 zeros...and still dream to become the number 1 search engine ha :D

Agreed we are in parking business..still..it is what behind it that matters most

 

[domainerd1]

This is not the end of the realestate meltdown. The fraud is traced now to most major banks in loaning to those who had no qualifications for borrowing the amount to finance their deal.

My quess is as more news hits Wall St of how involved the top banks were in creating the realestate bubble and how much their losses reported are we will see how big this mess is.

Let us place the blame where it most belongs - on the U.S. Congress, for forcing lenders to give loans to people that they otherwise would not have lent money to, i.e. people that were obvious credit risks. Never underestimate the stupidity of our elected officials.

 

[smashfactory]

.eu?
this was in the eurodns newsletter:

Only 13.37% .eu Websites Active/Unique - .eu is a disaster zone
The latest WhoisIreland.com .eu web survey shows that the .eu ccTLD is in serious trouble. Out of 1723638 websites checked, only 13.37% of sites were active/unique. As a ccTLD for Europe, it is a disaster zone. Brand registrations accounted for 7.78% of registrations. The percentage of duplicate content sites was 6.02%. The percentage of websites that redirected elsewhere was 16.68%. The percentage of PPC/warehoused websites was 14.22%. The percentage of holding page sites was 16.79%

 

[sunnycoast]

Hi, I am hoping someone here can help me with a question regarding failed extentions. I personally agree that .eu is beyond help. But I hear people talk about keyboard placement having a part in their evaluation of success and failure.

But .ws is about as easy as you can get without it being a multiple character. Yet I see people regestering .asia names that are still avaialble in .ws

Just curious then as to why this might be happening other than hype. I have never bought other extentions aside from .com really but something has made me buy quite a few .asia

I think if most of the domains are just held for sale with few websites created than .asia may head in the area of disaster like .eu

Only time will tell but any thoughts on why .asia is looking hotter than .ws even in .ws early days. I really can not remember this kind of frenzy for .ws or is that like comparing apples with oranges based on the primary country specific purpose of .asia?
I have been wary to purchase any .asia name that is still available in .ws but maybe I am comparing something that should not be compared.

Thanks!

 

[Jeff]

I have been wary to purchase any .asia name that is still available in .ws but maybe I am comparing something that should not be compared.

Thanks!

Exactly ... ... if, even partially, you're basing your highly speculative ".ASIA" potential investments on whether or not the same domains are registered in the lowly ".WS", then you should step back and read both this thread and the threads in the Newbies Forum™ all over again, IMHO. :blink:
In all due respect, that's a completely failed logic ... in my view. :red:

Hope that helps!
-Jeff

 

[Keith]

The biggest flop will be any hand regged .com
from this point forward until the end of time.
Toomanypeoplereggingjustbecauseits.com is a
way to lose $$$ IMHO

 

[sunnycoast]

Thanks you confirmed my own thoughts on my fleeting moment logic. Appreciate your post to squash the curiosity monstor.

 

[WGS_Thunder]

The biggest flop will be any hand regged .com
from this point forward until the end of time.
Toomanypeoplereggingjustbecauseits.com is a
way to lose $$$ IMHO

recently hand regged pcgamersworld
not too bad?

 

[Mike]

.eu?
this was in the eurodns newsletter:

Only 13.37% .eu Websites Active/Unique - .eu is a disaster zone
The latest WhoisIreland.com .eu web survey shows that the .eu ccTLD is in serious trouble. Out of 1723638 websites checked, only 13.37% of sites were active/unique. As a ccTLD for Europe, it is a disaster zone. Brand registrations accounted for 7.78% of registrations. The percentage of duplicate content sites was 6.02%. The percentage of websites that redirected elsewhere was 16.68%. The percentage of PPC/warehoused websites was 14.22%. The percentage of holding page sites was 16.79%

Can it even get any worse?!

M.

 

[Keith]

recently hand regged pcgamersworld
not too bad?

What do you estimate the value to be
without development?

 

[Jeff]

Thanks you confirmed my own thoughts on my fleeting moment logic. Appreciate your post to squash the curiosity monstor.

You're welcome.

The biggest flop will be any hand regged .com
from this point forward until the end of time.
Toomanypeoplereggingjustbecauseits.com is a
way to lose $$$ IMHO

Let me guess, you're a "dot Mobey" hypster ... is that correct? :blink:

Your outrageous example of "Toomanypeoplereggingjustbecauseits.com" is, of course, a poor registration ... but the best opportunities that exist today are in less obscure - and available - niche .COM investments (versus available, made up, hand-registered stuff in the lowly "dot Mobey", ".ASIA", or ".EU" new extensions), IMHO. :gl:

The .MOBI Scraps™ are going to be dropping by the tens of 1,000's! by September '08, in my judgement ... if folks aren't careful, this will repeat again for the ".ASIA"! :o

Best regards,
-Jeff

 

[WGS_Thunder]

What do you estimate the value to be
without development?

it was appraised here around low XXX. I've been told it's worth more but we are going to develop this one soon and expect it to be popular. Thanks

 

[Keith]

You're welcome.



Let me guess, you're a "dot Mobey" hypster ... is that correct? :blink:

Your outrageous example of "Toomanypeoplereggingjustbecauseits.com" is, of course, a poor registration ... but the best opportunities that exist today are in less obscure - and available - niche .COM investments (versus available, made up, hand-registered stuff in the "dot Mobey", ".ASIA", or ".EU"), IMHO. :gl:

The .MOBI Scraps™ are going to be dropping by the tens of 1,000's by September '08, in my judgement ... if folks aren't careful, this will repeat again for the ".ASIA"! :o

Best regards,
-Jeff

Bah, .com is old school. We have a whole new generation of domainers and businesses looking to get nice keywords at affordable prices. Fishing for the 80 millionth .com is not the way to go IMO.

New tlds will open up a whole new spectrum of the still brand new internet. We have seen the internet explode over the last 10-15 years and during that time it was all about .com. Now that .com is saturated to the point of no return we will see new tlds bring the internet to the next stage.

My guess is that in another 10-15 years .com will just be another tld amongst various other exts...no better, no worse.

 

[xman]

The biggest flop will be any hand regged .com
from this point forward until the end of time.
Toomanypeoplereggingjustbecauseits.com is a
way to lose $$$ IMHO

Really?

I just regged SalzburgCity.com

Salzburg City is the fourth largest city in Austria and also the birthplace of Mozart

SalzburgCity.TV - regged since 2001

.INFO and .AT taken as well

 

[frankiethepet]

well i think .ASIA will be the biggest flop because asians themselves wont use it.. they dont even CALL themselves asian... its just us westerners that call them that.

I guess some domains like travel.asia and stuff like that could get valuable... but i dont see many endusers here... at least not asians.

 

[Mike]

Really?

I just regged SalzburgCity.com

Salzburg City is the fourth largest city in Austria and also the birthplace of Mozart

SalzburgCity.TV - regged since 2001

.INFO and .AT taken as well

Shouldn't you have regged: "SalzburgStadt" or "StadtSalzburg" or to stick within the English context "CityOfSalzburg"? Just wondering

M.