Please explain your reasoning that you thought .work specifically would have value as apposed to the hundred other new gtlds?
Great question. 1) Have collected .com's for many years, mostly one-word. Rarely sold any in first 15 to 16 years. Bought shortcuts.work having built 2,389 "shortcuts" websites, and, every time I said it out loud at health-related & other conferences, people just lit up: Must've had a dozen people exclaim, "You're right, they do!" ... which of course engenders everyone chuckling.
One night, was literally in the chair of a team owner in his office. Reg'd several .com's for him, and was so challenged by not finding even ONE of 70 one-word .com's he wanted, started searching for other tld's. While doing this, he starts a conversation on boxing. For words like boxer, champs, swimmers, none of the majors are available, of course, and then, WHAM! First we find that those words were all available.... in .work ONLY and then, difficult to explain, more than 200 athletic/sports-related domains flew out of my fingers as if my client were controlling them... and every doggone one were available ... in .work. Most were, very notably, not available in .com, .net., .org, .US, or even .info, .cc., .ca, etc.
Keep in mind, all this time, several of us are saying these domain names out loud.... and they just sound FAR better than .com. C'mon, give it a try: "twisted.work, validating.work, unflawed.work, lasers.work" - Just has a nice ring, especially if it's, say, medical or legal, ala CriminalLaw.work or adoption or franchises, etc.
2) Returning home same night, the
.work light bulb went on. If you're a true domainist, you're going to have to love this. CANNOT BELIEVE a million people twice as smart did not have either the hunger or maybe just initiative or creativity to follow #1 rule of the Psychology of Shortcuts:
"Imitate the actions... or nearly so... of masters and millionaires, in order to imitate their results, or nearly so."
Who knows better than the people who've sold their domains for the greatest amounts? LOL: Simply looked for lists (no two are identical) of "HIGHEST REPORTED DOMAIN SALES."
Started with the two most expensive reported sales ... and both were available ... in, you guessed it,
.work
Registered several hundred that early morning, and have repeated it several times since. Cannot stress enough to people that, yes, there are thousands and thousands of one-word domains available in other gtlds.
Last, not least. 99.99% of all great one-word .com's are either unavailable, or outlandishly priced. We tapped into some major vein here by backing off initial high asking prices. By asking "only" 20 to 1,000x our money back, the difference is night and day.
Combine all that w/ realizing that, with 2,400 highly-ranked sites created over the past 26 years, backlinks to these new .work domains are treasurable. So, instead of selling all these domains now, have begun rapid design of a hosted website for each domain, replete with juicy backlnks from our other sites. Thanks to member here, I'm getting it that creating logos for many one-word brandable .com's will also be a big help (This forum is awesome. First time in 26 yrs online I can remember paying to belong to a forum!)
NOTE: As a friendly "eff you" to the entire .com paradigm, majority of best backlinks will come from some of my NON dot-coms, lololol, ie: Shortcuts.me, enjoy'g #1 on google for at least 8 keyphrases, such as "greatest success shortcuts" (sometimes just "greatest shortcuts" by itself).... and, yessir, backlinks from Shortcuts.work. Cheers. Thanks for good question. Hope newbies recognize that most of my best secrets are no more and no less than the secrets of people smarter than several of us combined.
"I tells ya, when ya say'em out loud, I want them more than .com!" (Make no mistake, you can see at SweeterDomains & SweetestDomains.com, OneWordSites & OneWordDomaining.com, we're not lacking in .com's, we've simply become convinced that, with over a MILLION people going online
for the first time every week after week, and because .work is in some ways better than .com - and by a sizable margin in plenty of cases... the 10-year opp'y to multiply the # of cups of food raised at M>S sites for starving kids ... is the cornerstone of thinking behind WHY it was so easy to fall in love with
.work.
richest.work
otolaryngology.work
gastrointestinal.work
reserved.work
provocative.work
ipos.work
hedging.work
They sound and/or look SO delicious! Simply say it and add ".work"
shareholders.work,
volatility
roulette, slots, kasino, kredit (those two are German words), Apuestas..... all of them work, don't they? Transcript, whisky,
liquidity.work ... each better than the one before, IMO (& our buyers, apparently). I like whisky.work and scotchwhisky.work better than our Apertifs.com: more grounded, ey?
Taped.work. C'mon,
deadly.work?
Handbags.work? Marvelous words, right? -- AND THEY ALL WORK, so to speak.
Cheers!