values for: jap.us, eire.us, new-media.us, eire.us, new-media.us, U-K.us, schmuck.us

[bunder]

any thoughts on value for

U-K.us (the next best thing to UK, a British/US portal?)
you can't get two character, so this is the nearest to UK but with the dash between U and K.
jap.us (a Japanese/US site?)
eire.us (another way to say Ireland, maybe a site for ex-pats now living in the US)
new-media.us (how much does the dash make it lose?)
schmuck.us (a joke site?)


Leslie

[President Gringo]

not keen on these. $0

[crabby]

"values for: jap.us, eire.us, new-media.us, eire.us, new-media.us, U-K.us, schmuck.us"

jap.us - Should be $1K - $2K today, however, it's value lies in the acronym use. Yahoo search results 781K for JAP.

All the hyphenated names are $0.

erie.us - worth very little now. .US overall reg numbers should be over 1 million before you get much interest in erie.us.

schmuck.us is as good a name as "jackass", so do something creative with it. I'd say worth $500 today, but the problem is you might have to spend lots of hours marketing it, so you'd be working cheap.

[interactive]

Some of them are nice. Jap is probly the only one worth over reg fee. I hate hyphens.

[Duke]

I would agree that all of the hyphenated .us names are $0. Don't really see much value in the others either. Jap is a derogatory term toward Japanese so I can't see any business entity using that name. I wouldn't want to use it personally either. I would avoid any .US with a reference to other countries - they just don't fit. There are lots of good .US names out there, so need to take hyphenated names either. Glad you are interested in the extension though. Good luck.

[bunder]

JAP also stands for Jewish American Princess - which some folks use as a term of affection as well as a sarcastic term

Maybe a rich JAP would want to buy it???

Just out of interest, why is everyone so anti hyphens???? Has anyone sold a domain with a hyphen and got a decent return?

Leslie

Originally posted by Duke of Earl
I would agree that all of the hyphenated .us names are $0. Don't really see much value in the others either. Jap is a derogatory term toward Japanese so I can't see any business entity using that name. I wouldn't want to use it personally either. I would avoid any .US with a reference to other countries - they just don't fit. There are lots of good .US names out there, so need to take hyphenated names either. Glad you are interested in the extension though. Good luck.

[bidawinner]

jap ? from an american standpoint , it is/WAS used as a derogatory term for the japanese during WW2..

you may want to take that into consideration....

[morel]

Jap is still considered derogatory in my opinion.