Would you ever consider using a one word .US for a business?

[hookbox]

I know I know what am I thinking but I was curious of your thoughts. Would you ever consider using a one word .US for a business?

 

[ulterios]

Am I crazy for being surprised I haven't, yet, found a buyer for Brewery.US ? There are thousands of them in the US. I think if I owned a brewery in the US, I'd want to own it.

No, you aren't crazy. There can be many reasons like maybe not marketing it the right ways, like maybe approaching these breweries (if at all) through the right channels, asking too much for an extension that isn't as valuable as others, or many other reasons.

If it was my domain, I would market it to the small micro-brew breweries. The companies with lower budgets that could see the potential in a CC based domain.

I'm not saying it's going to fetch a higher price like the more dominant extensions, but it could be valuable based on the extension.

 

[HeyNow]

Slow but steady creep. One thing you might notice: Those who participate in this and other domainer forums are mostly quiet about .us, including some major domain players who, while taking pot shots at the current status of .us, continue to hold large quantities of .us names, knowing what lies down the road.

I've been castigated here for my .us holdings, when administrators and some others whom I consider auction cheats feel the need to remind all of you of my vested interests. Otherwise, if you didn't know I have a bunch of .us names, how in the world could you trust anything I say?

.Us stands a better chance than most TLDs of continued growth and appreciating value, considering the important nature of ccTLDs on the world stage and the lack of TLDs with an official sort of purpose. Remember, .us names have been around a long time, a lot longer than when they were first made available for "open registration" back in 2002. Before that, only municipalities were allowed to build .us sites.

 

[Alice Wonder Miscreations]

I have one .us and I don't know that I will get more.

It kind of turned me off when I saw they had confiscated some domain names for having the 7 nono radio words in them.

Not an issue to most people, or to me, but it does indicate that they are not reasonable, and it is dangerous to build a business on a TLD that will seize the name for really stupid things like that.

 

[hookbox]

I wanted to visit the Erector website to find a new toy for my son. For those that don't know Erector has made these really cool buildable toys for the past 100 years. It's interesting that their main site is Erector.us and the name Erector.com is actually a Sedo parked page and for sale. This is a meg multi million dollar brand using a .us extension.