What ever happened to .WS - DNForum - Domain Sales, Domain Forum, Domain Appraisals, Domain Registrars

**Dynamic1** · 04-06-2008, 10:08 AM

Just curious it was gonna be the next .com or some bs a few years back

Banned: denny007 · 04-06-2008, 10:33 AM

And in 3-4 years someone will open a thread "What ever happened to .MOBI"

**Ehsan** · 04-06-2008, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by denny007

And in 3-4 years someone will open a thread "What ever happened to .MOBI"

you probably need to wait a few 100 thousand years whenever every ones dead and you are probably the only person alive

**Rockefeller** · 04-06-2008, 11:03 AM

Interesting:

"Global Domains International achieved 3479% growth in the past five years, ranking #37 on the list of 500 fastest growing companies in the United States, #5 in California, and #2 in San Diego with sales growing from $261,000 in 1997 to $9,341,000 in 2001."

They are still worthless.

**TheLegendaryJP** · 04-06-2008, 11:09 AM

Question is, what were they selling ?

**Rubber Duck** · 04-06-2008, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Ehsan

you probably need to wait a few 100 thousand years whenever every ones dead and you are probably the only person alive

Actually to all intents and purposes, it has already reached the critical point where extinction is all but inevitable. The premise for its existence no longer exists. Only those that are logically dysfunctional cannot see this.

**Master Chief** · 04-06-2008, 11:23 AM

i haven't owned or searched for keyword .ws in a long time

**mediawizard** · 04-06-2008, 11:53 AM

.WS is good for development. Hardly a domainers extension.

I think eventually this will be true about .mobi too

I had blogged about it a little while back -
http://www.mwzd.com/2008/01/23/the-significance-of-ws/

**Rubber Duck** · 04-06-2008, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by mediawizard

.WS is good for development. Hardly a domainers extension.

I think eventually this will be true about .mobi too

I had blogged about it a little while back -
http://www.mwzd.com/2008/01/23/the-significance-of-ws/

Only if you consider your development efforts to be worth Squat!

With the advent of hundreds of new extensions, Search Engines will be forced to give ranking according to the importance of each extension within each market. WS will be good for development in Western Samoa.

**mediawizard** · 04-06-2008, 01:54 PM

Well I don't know if you noticed but Google already does but (and here's the catch) for the same term.

So if you own cars.com you'll always rank higher for "cars" but if you own buyawesomecars.com a buycars.ws can beat it in SEO for the term "buy cars".

At least thats what I understand of it.

**Rubber Duck** · 04-06-2008, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by mediawizard

Well I don't know if you noticed but Google already does but (and here's the catch) for the same term.

So if you own cars.com you'll always rank higher for "cars" but if you own buyawesomecars.com a buycars.ws can beat it in SEO for the term "buy cars".

At least thats what I understand of it.

That is my point. The algorithms are already set up to do this, but at the moment because there are relative few extension, it is a comparatively minor issue. ICANN are budgeting for the addition of about 1000 new gTLDs over the next three years. To get to the top of that lot your domain is going to have to be pretty special. Dot WS just isn't going to cut it. Yes, the Keyword is still going to be significant so crap dot coms won't cut it either. However, domain names are going to become a lot more critical to SEO than they have been previously. Picking up good keywords regardless of extension will be a thing of the past.

**Datalife** · 04-06-2008, 02:12 PM

I'd think I have to add:

What happened to .BIZ?

Now don't tell me it is as worthless as .WS.

Cos I still own a couple of em

**Rubber Duck** · 04-06-2008, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Datalife

I'd think I have to add:

What happened to .BIZ?

Now don't tell me it is as worthless as .WS.

Cos I still own a couple of em

Going forward it has to be worth more than dot Asia or Dot Mobi.

But the bad news is Not Much!

**jasdon11** · 04-06-2008, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

Going forward it has to be worth more than dot Asia or Dot Mobi.

But the bad news is Not Much!

LOL - that's LOL as in, 'laughing at you' not 'laughing with you'.

**Dynamic1** · 04-07-2008, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by mediawizard

.WS is good for development. Hardly a domainers extension.

I think eventually this will be true about .mobi too

I had blogged about it a little while back -
http://www.mwzd.com/2008/01/23/the-significance-of-ws/

I had bought a few good ones a while back i have since let them go. They were marketing it as .WS= WebSite I now have all .coms and .nets also . org but just a few.

**CommercialDomains** · 04-07-2008, 08:56 AM

You know it's super suspect when pepperoni.ws is left available

That one's on the house, guessing it will be registered today

**mediawizard** · 04-07-2008, 09:17 AM

There are a ton of keywords available in .ws

And a lot more drop each day. Check website.ws for 'premium' names available now.

Thats what I like about it... hand registered laon.ws a week or so back, no chance of getting that in any other tld cheap.

**thejosh** · 04-07-2008, 10:06 AM

the only one i ever bought is josh.ws

**sashas** · 04-07-2008, 10:58 AM

.ws never made any sense in the first place. Seriously, who would actually think of 'WS' as 'WebSite'...heck, who would think of it even as 'Western Samoa'?

One extension to me that does sound good (if they ever launch it) would be .Go - Nice dictionary word with a good sense of movement, and short too, and .web

**Dynamic1** · 04-07-2008, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by mediawizard

There are a ton of keywords available in .ws

And a lot more drop each day. Check website.ws for 'premium' names available now.

Thats what I like about it... hand registered laon.ws a week or so back, no chance of getting that in any other tld cheap.

Tax.ws mad.ws big.ws all avail WOW ext must really suck Tax.com alone would be a goldmine