Why all the fuss about .be

[TT]

Last year .info was offered for free and everyone was grabbing them up like. Then they would list them here in NP for appraisals and for ridiculous sales amounts. It appears that .BE has done the same thing as info did last year and many of you are rushing to grab these prized domains, and filling the forum up with please appraise this.be and that .be I have even seen some in the for sale forum.

I will appraise all free .be names right now Reg Fee unless you have extended registration for 10 years. Oh and if your looking to sell them price them accordingly Reg Fee because i bet that 99.9% of the ones people are grabbing at this free offer period will not be renewed next year, Concentrate on developing the names you have already paid for so you can see a higher return on your investments.

As John Stostle would say "Give me a break" Free domains are just that Free NOT worth the time you have spent to register them.

 

[gazzip]

Yeah, Free is Free !!! Worthless just now but maybe in a year or two they will be worth something hopefully !

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Folks are quite vitriolic about the free .be's , but I'm not sure why.
I'm not a fan of folks that registered 100's of names or anything, but everyone else... why be a hater?
.info's were free about a year ago now, and I've been able to sell a handful of my free ones at a infinite % profit (AKA: They were free. Selling them is all profit.). Some of the .info's registered were horrible, but saying they were all "Reg fee unless registered for 10 years" would be imbecilic.
All :imho: , but blanket statements that I've been reading about how "worthless" .be's are and that they're all only worth "reg fee" (It was clever in the .info go-around, now it just seems rehashed) would be ignoring a) the promotion's results and b) the historical example of .info and its sales (See DNJournal.com and our own "Report Domain Name Sales Here" thread).
-Allan

 

[.X.]

A premuim .info will sell for x,xxx-xx,xxx today,I don't wanna really compare the .be and .info TLD though,.info is a much more flexable extension to develope imo.I think the fuss is simple,FREE,I reged 24 total .be names,I have no doubt at renewel time a bunch i will let drop,But i do have development plans for a few of em, I think .be fuss keyword is FREE right now,What the future holds for the TLD is along ways off imo.

 

[wasistdas]

Every thing got free and sold for even little $ is worth, imo

 

[gazzip]

Yeah, I am sure you're right Alan but rather than try and sell them straight away it would be better to hang on a year or so and find out if they become more wanted by end users and hopefully more valuable.

Like the info's are as you stated.

"worthless" is a bit harsh - "potential" is better

 

[AHA7]

Well, some of the .be domains may be worth up to $xxx (not any of mine :D) if sold to the right interested end-user, and I mean the right interested end-user! (Generally, someone from Belgium itself)

For example, yellowpages.be, telephone.be, market.be, free.be... are surely worth something!
I regged belgiumyellowpages.be, belgiumstore.be, onlinebelgium.be...these names can make some $xx if sold to an interested end-user, someone from Belgium.
:imho:

 

[gartrout]

It's promotion for the extension and more registrations potentially bring the value up for the better ones. Junk is still junk, but it's a promotional idea with merit to give away the first year of registration.

 

[Michelle]

Ok the way I see it is that at the end of the day they were free. It has cost me nothing to have alittle fun, park for a year and maybe get some traffic, drop the ones I wish and renew any I want :hehe:

I have lost nothing, had fun and may earn a few pennies

 

[-db-]

I have been surrounded by a swarm of .be's!

Haha.... pretty clever. That's the quote of the day! :lol:

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Haha.... pretty clever. That's the quote of the day! :lol:

I reg'd 3 names all about that play on words... Not great, but funny methinks

huney.be
honee.be
buzzing.be

</simple minds, simple pleasures>

 

[TT]

I guess what i was trying to get across is

99.9% of the free .be's registered are worthless
I understand premium info names have been sold for good $$$
But why flood forums like namepros and others with these ridculous requests for appraisals on these free domains and why try to list these domains for stupid amounts of money.

They are worthless unless you have 1 of the top 2000 words its just a waste of time.

I understand some people registering some names and hoping to gain some PPC revenue but really 'Give me a Break" in the end how much do you really think your going to make. I dont know about you but my time is worth alot more than a few cents for a years revenue on a dumb TLD, So i assume your time isnt worth all that much if you have to spend countless hours searching for what you think is a premium name and in the end you make a few cents in revenue.

I dont even think belgians use the .be what makes you think anyone elsewhere will?

 

[Ixix]

the problem with infos is that they are limited in what you can use them for, you can't really use commercial names with an info extenstion....bes are different...you aren't really limited. Most of my bes are in english, but i managed to snag a few dutch bes to.

what really gets me is the sometimes harsh negativity some people have regarding this free be thing. For this reason, i'm not going to post my .bes (or any name) for appraisals on this forum anymore, just for the reason that many pple like to pi$$ on other pple's parades just for the heck of it. It's one thing to give constructive criticism, it's another thing to be a g0@ d@^m debbie downer....in my opinion....

My guess is that they didnt get the name they wanted (just kidding). But some people are positive enough find opportunities in the anything. At one time or another, .coms were free....and don't you wish you grabbed a few names back then? And you know what? They were free...so even if the hole bunch of them resell for freakin' reg fe, that's a profit of 6-7 dollars, so what's the big deal?

As for me, who cares if they sell or not? Thankfully, i was wiser this time and snagged some good, rich keyword, domains that i intend to develop w/adsense, or an affiliate program.

 

[ponyone]

You are .be-ing quite harsh

 

[gazzip]

It's nice to get a free.be :hehe:

 

[Premium]

It's an amazing opportunity that is a one in a lifetime. You can register all the .be you want and perhaps in 1 year time somebody will find interest in your domain and buy it for some BIG CASH!

Also many new companies are establishing in .be which also gives the extension potential... :tu:

Landrush is always good, but free domains.. 10 X BETTER!!!

However I do think that a lot of people reg like crazy and say YAY I got 50+ .be useless domains!

 

[Greg Hal]

I'm just taking a break from two months of heavy work on various projects, and it seems I missed the land rush on .be (for the past few weeks I only used internet to send and receive emails, and when I got home all I wanted was to get a few hours sleep). So I log in today and find about this... Oh, well, .es registration will be open in a few more days. It's not like they're free or anything, but that's the next golden opportunity IMHO.

 

[gartrout]

My perspective, correct me if I'm wrong, is that the free .info pushed that extension ahead. Decent to large .info sales picked up AFTER that year of free registrations, not before.
So maybe only the good .be domains will get renewed and then we'll see a possible increase in value....possible.

I'll sell you some .be domains if it will make you feel better! :sold:

 

[TT]

I am proud to tell you that I do NOT have any .be's registered and I will not register any.

The info promotion may have worked for a small percentage of domainers in terms of them being able to cash in on some Premium Names however the other 99% of the free names that people registered have dropped like a sack of rotten tomatoes.

.be is afterall a Country Code TLD and forgive for bringing this up but as mentioned in another thread here at NP .ca has a greater populous and higher usage of internet savy users per capita than belgium and last time i looked people here were telling other members of premium names available for registration as well as some very nice 3 letter domains. If .ca cant survive what makes you think .be has a hope in hell. After reading on high sales for .ca on dnjournal in the past year there was one sale over 5000.00 i dont see any .be names fetching that kind of money.

Info on the other hand was Never a CCtld and even when that promotion was on I dont believe that any of the major players in the domain industry wasted more than 20 minutes locating the top 2000 premium names and when non were available on they went with their daily routines of establishing thier portfolios.

as stated earlier .be is a waste of time, effort and space in the forums for example

Appraisal threads for .be so far

http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=137294
http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=137469
http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=137463
http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=137507
http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=137525
http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=137153
http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=137250
http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=137170

Whats next we have to sift thru .be apprailsal threads to read requests for real domains.

"Give me a break"

And I will say it before someone else has to say it. I know i am wasting my time by continuing to comment about this domain industry tragedy Free .be's

 

[Mark]

Whats the difference in having to weed through .be's and having to weed through the other domains in appraisal section ? NONE - Because it is all a matter of opinion ! - There are plenty of .com's in there that will never be worth "Reg Fees" as well - Wouldn't you say ?

I'm quite sure people from Belgium do not think it is a waste of time - At least any Domains using "Dutch" , "French" , and "German" as the language basis. But as I said ... It is just a matter of opinion As long as you do have language translation and appropriate Meta information on your site(s) it shouldn't really matter what extension it is.