Dotcom left behind in favour of dotnet and dotorg

[MAllie]

I just registered the .com and .info of a domain name of which the .net and .org had already gone. This seems unusual to me - is it a regular occurrence in others' experience? The name is business-related, so I think that taking the .org particularly and leaving the .com is strange. The history of the name seems to be clear - no bad vibes that I can tell.

 

[draggar]

The .com might have expired / dropped and no one picked it up.

Congratulations on the find.

 

[MAllie]

Oh, cool, draggar! You think I might actually have regged a good one this time, lol?

 

[Bender]

this is VERY unusual.
there are scripts running to "prevent" this.

 

[MAllie]

Translate, please, Bender.

 

[Bender]

some large portfolio owners use the zone files to find this kind of things...and register the .com automatically.

 

[DomainBELL]

I just registered the .com and .info of a domain name of which the .net and .org had already gone. This seems unusual to me - is it a regular occurrence in others' experience? The name is business-related, so I think that taking the .org particularly and leaving the .com is strange. The history of the name seems to be clear - no bad vibes that I can tell.

in the whois of each were they diff. owners ??

sometimes when I've gone to get something and the .com was avail yet others were taken -- that made me go "hmmmm" -- in every instance it was multiple owners of the various extensions... someone should have had the .com on BO if it was a GOOD name... but then again... we can't BO everything... LOL


Good luck with it and congrats on the find...

~DomainBELL (Patricia)

 

[krossat]

maybe someone regged all three and com was the first one to fall?
Is the name good enough?

 

[MAllie]

No, Krossat, I don't think it's a great name - especially if some automatic system has rejected it for re-registering. But it has a keyword I wanted (business), so I'm hoping it might get some traffic. Or perhaps that's naive of me. But I'll come back and let you know how it goes.

Now for two glossary questions: What are the 'zone files,' Bender? And what is BO, Patricia? Well, apart from the obvious, lol.

 

[onlinetv]

A long time ago it was not easy to get .net or .org, as you had to prove to the registrar that you were a network (I had one and got one) or a 501c3 to get an org. By 2000 that seems to have just disappeared as names became commodities and the meanings were sort of dropped. I have a .net and never cared for the .com for that. Also .orgs will often supersede .com when it is on topic to the name and content as google still seems to think they are organizations so worthy of note. I am not sure about .net because mine is a network and I do not push, seo, or promote it because it is just a backbone net. I guess I should because it is an important name.

 

[MAllie]

Isn't it funny how 2000 is really such a short while ago but in domaining terms it's like centuries ago? I hadn't realised that about .nets and .orgs, that there were special qualifications to be allowed take them.

I have always thought, though, that .org was to do with big voluntary or community bodies, whereas recently I see it being referred to in a few places as being meant for large groups and corporations.

 

[Tom K.]

I just registered the .com and .info of a domain name of which the .net and .org had already gone. This seems unusual to me - is it a regular occurrence in others' experience? The name is business-related, so I think that taking the .org particularly and leaving the .com is strange. The history of the name seems to be clear - no bad vibes that I can tell.

I've seen this many times. What likely happened is when the dot com dropped it got picked up by a domain taster and then dropped again, this may have occurred a number of times or dropped once and not picked up for obvious reasons. In any case, it happened and if you're getting type-ins or residual traffic then congrats, or if you're planning to develop likewise.

Another possibility is that there might be trademark issues, in which case, registrant beware.

 

[MAllie]

Thanks, ecafe. I haven't parked it yet, but will do so tomorrow while I work on the content for its development. I put the .net and .org versions into the address bar but for the .net a blank page comes up and for the .org a 'this page cannot be displayed' message. A Google search also failed to turn up any company attached to the phrase. So hopefully there will be no trademark issue. The two words in the name are also fully dictionary ones, and the phrase is a commonly used one.

 

[jasdon11]

I find a few names like this every day - some are worth regging, some aren't. If the other extensions are developed, then it's usually a decent pick up; if nothing else you can usually flip the name pretty easily.

One of my best performing parked names (over the past month or so) is a three word generic .com where the .net is a developed site.

It seems to be more common with non-English language domains, sometimes they actually choose the .net over the .com. Another one (particularly in France) is using hyphens - they just love 'em!

 

[BobDiGiTaL]

you should at least offer the dot com to the dot net and dot org owners.