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Originally posted by BigFart
We have plenty of experience with .net and .org's and we already know that it is very unusual to sell one for a decent price.
We are and rightfully so applying that logic to the new tld's. |
I agree with the first sentence but not the second. .net and .org have no more in common with .info and .us than .cc and the rest do.
.ORG was branded from the very beginning as an extension for non-profit organizations. .NET was meant for service providers (though due to a lack of viable options - many have used it as a catch-all for everything).
.US has no such pre-ordained branding on its use. The only strike against it is that it is new. It will no longer be new several years from now....and it will make far more since to put a commercial enterprise on it than on a .org.
.INFO could be argued to have some similarities to .NET and .ORG in that it would seem to be meant for specific kinds of sites - those providing information (perhaps as opposed to pure commerce). With .info I think it is much more important to match the root name with the extension. You have more latitude with .US (if your market is the US - and virtually everyone worldwide attempts to market to the US).
In today's market there is no doubt they all have a fraction of the value of .com but getting good names, properly matched to their extension now, while you can, is hardly a waste of money in my view.