closed Doing the .WS thing?

[Tippy]

I know that many have said to avoid registering .ws domains because they are worthless, but what if its like a good term/word?

I am not worried about type-ins because I believe more people use search engines to find what they are looking for and as we all know the extension dont matter to the engines.

I wonder how the market is for developed site sales for .ws, anyone ever sold a developed .ws site?

Thanks,

Mike

 

[Duke]

I would say still little to no value. I picked up Skating.ws for nothing more than a few DN Bucks recently. Skating gets over 17,000 in Overture - millions in Google and I'm still thinking I probably overpaid!

 

[Ed30]

I'd steer well clear whatever the name.

 

[Tippy]

But even if its good and could be easily developed?

thanks,

Mike

 

[Duke]

Skating is good (ice skating is a massively popular sport - the most popular with women) and could be easily developed. The name still trades for nothing more than DN Bucks. That should answer your question.

 

[Kid Kool]

i would do it only if it is a site that could be ultra developed like

videogame.ws not just some template site

 

[Tippy]

One gets 50,000 overture 3mil google and the other 25,000 overture 1.7mil google.

I am sitting here with my finger on the submit registration button

Mike

 

[Ed30]

No-one is even sure what it stands for: world site?, web site?
In my view it stands for worthless sh*te.

 

[Tippy]

I would say that most people think of it as "website". Isnt that what they are looking for when the search the web, a website?

Mike

 

[Tippy]

I am developing www.videogame.ws at the moment, just looking for the right affiliate program to join. I almost did the vstore thing, but its not available for canadian citizens.

Mike

 

[mole]

It can be a little ackward when you need to explain to people that .ws actually stands for Western Samoa. In this day and age of new gTLDs like .info and .biz, such compromises don't cut the ice anymore.

 

[Tippy]

I guess you have a point about the true meaning of the extention but I will kick myself in the head ( which I can do, double jointed ) if someone regs them.

Mike

 

[mole]

Cats like to do what pleases them

 

[Duke]

Originally posted by Ed30
No-one is even sure what it stands for: world site?, web site?
In my view it stands for worthless sh*te.

The latter is much more accurate than the first two. It means only one thing - what ICANN says it means - Western Samoa.

That's why skating.ws has no value. Skating.WesternSamoa = I don't think so!

Do you want to spend a lot of time developing a site that is identified with Western Samoa?

The whole web site nonsense was just marketing hype the registrar has been spewing to try to convince people they should pay double the price of a .com registration to buy their .ws names.
It's fools gold (only not as valuable).

 

[crabby]

I was under the impression that a country-code domain name (and website at that address) are subject to the laws of that particular country.

So if you own a .WS name, that site and domain name are subject to the laws of Western Samoa. Likewise for .CC (Cocos Islands).

I could be wrong, but that's the way I understand it.

 

[GiantDomains]

Tippy.........NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO000000000oooooooooooo

 

[Tippy]

I must be a complete fool , I am now the proud owner of

Scripts.ws

I play with them all day long, when I am not busy playing with something else :laugh:

Mike

 

[GiantDomains]

I tried to save you... :-(

 

[Bob]

Tippy has gone off the deep end. Poor Tippy. meybe he will recover soon.

-Bob

 

[Tippy]

I thinks its worth the $15 reg fee.

I am not looking at the name/ext. alone, I am looking at it in the long run, fully developed and indexed.

Scripts.ws

Thanks,

Mike

PS : I am holding off registering the other one for now.