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Is a .COM movement used to stifle the growth of domaining with respect to new TLD's?

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Is a .COM movement used to stifle the growth of domaining with respect to alt TLD's?

What do you think?

.mobi sucks
.tv sucks
.asia sucks

"Buy LLLL.com then NNNNN.com then NNNNNN.com to create a market, just between us domainers.." (this, by the way is very good, we need more market)

It is now April 12, 2008 - how is your end-users' appeal?

I believe our masses' pockets suffer because our industry leader's attention believes in kissing the butts of the same "heroes"..

Bad roots

We need to grow widespread appeal.. 4/12/2008 domaining can not be said to have broken out of its infancy..

so many people have left (give up) our industry citing failure; when, they find no truth of support for the grassroots domainer's hopes..






Kind Regards,

Yelo (Domainer since January 1999)
 
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yea, basically average person (not domainer) knows only .com, .net, .org and his country .tld, anything else is suck

tv i can understad being marketed as a video site, but mobi and asia totally worthless and makes no sense
 

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Yeah, it's def the domainers keeping the .mobi prices down.
 

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I think Mobi makes sense - just not yet, but soon. I also like .Info and a lot of nondomainers are familiar with the extension. The general public will never be familiar with a fraction of the available TLDs - that is why .com gets the most type ins.
 

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Yeah, it's def the domainers keeping the .mobi prices down.
Interesting that you are blaming domainers -- especially when end-users are who you should be targeting to buy your domains. Domainers buy at wholesale prices and end-users buy at retail prices. So, why not work harder to sell to them?
 

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There is only .com, pizza.net, music.mobi and the rest suck :D

But seriously you can't compare the credibility of new tlds towards .com, these are completely different risk groups
 

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Hi there,

I dont know much about .MOBI

But .TV is already popular as all TV serials & Music Channels are making their official website as .TV (i.e. POGO.TV) but this market is restricted for only media related companies. And .tv is very low compare to .com


.COM is being utilized by anyone, anywhere.
Where as .TV must be used by some media channel, than only it makes sense.

Coming to .ASIA, believe it or not, it is going to be an HUGE Success in next 2-3 Years. If you think .asia sucks, than why not an single dictionary name or an decent name is not available in .asia

.asia launched on 26th March 2008, to till date 95% of all important words/phrases & business related domains are already registered.

Remember when .IN was launched in 2005, there was no BOOM about it. but today you know what is the value of .IN domains and for your kind information, .IN is not only restricted to INDIA. and its being utilized globally.

.ASIA is already an success because of its regional area, high internet usage growth. ASIA will surpass the west within next 3 years in internet user/usage.

And do remember, only 9% of people around the world give online ADs about their business, the rest 91% yet to become online, and when everybody comes online there will be shortage of domain names, that time .ASIA will emerge as an winner.


.ASIA may not seems too good for those who are having 1000s of .com .net and .org.

Believe it or not .ASIA is rocking.

Thats all.
 
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Coming to .ASIA, believe it or not, it is going to be an HUGE Success in next 2-3 Years. If you think .asia sucks, than why not an single dictionary name or an decent name is not available in .asia

.Asia sucks big time IMHO :lol:

The number of new people joining domain business is high and all the new domainers who missed the earliar boats jumped in .Asia bandwagon fearing that they cant afford to loose this big opportunity and they started regging all the crap and that is why You see everything has been regged in .Asia .. there are even some keyword combos which are available in .NET,.ORG but taken in .ASIA :smilewinkgrin:

I saw on another forum how there were a big number of newly registerd members taking part in .Asia showcase :cool:
 

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Believe it or not, .ASIA is a doomed extension. Ask kids in colleges and people on street (I did this experiment at Malls in Jaipur, Delhi and Ludhiana) they have all heard of .co.in and .in but no one even knows what .asia is. Also, how many Indians, Chinese, Nepalese, Pakistanis, Sri Lankans, Afghanistanis etc. call themselves Asians rather than their nationality? Zilch that I know of.

Most of the names have been registered due to the market momentum -- just like .eu had -- we will only see after two or three years as to how much financial sense does this extension make.
 
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why is it that when people cant reg good names they start to crap on the extension?

No need to crap on our investment. none of your business. if you dont like it, keep it to yourself. A good name is a good name. Do you have any good .com winners!? doubt it. Are you just going to buy and sell .coms forever!? Why limit yourself?

You dont live in Asia and you have no idea about asia so you should not say anything negative about .asia.

わかたおまえ!?おまえわからなえば、悪い事言うえな。

Mods, Close thread as it threatens current and future sales. What is said about .mobi, .asia, .tv, or what ever extension, what is said negatively is based on no facts.
 

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.asia is definitely sucks, no Asian countries likes to be associated with other Asian country as LB said- like Japanese hate when people call them Chinesse and Chinesse hate when people call them Korean.. and so on

i lived in Tokyo for few years so i know!
 

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why is it that when people cant reg good names they start to crap on the extension?

No need to crap on our investment. none of your business. if you dont like it, keep it to yourself. A good name is a good name. Do you have any good .com winners!? doubt it. Are you just going to buy and sell .coms forever!? Why limit yourself?

You dont live in Asia and you have no idea about asia so you should not say anything negative about .asia.

わかたおまえ!?おまえわからなえば、悪い事言うえな。

Mods, Close thread as it threatens current and future sales. What is said about .mobi, .asia, .tv, or what ever extension, what is said negatively is based on no facts.
1. I have absolutely no idea what you have written in your language. Please use english as the medium of communication unless you are posting in the language specific forums.

2. I live in Asia and the statements I have made are based on my own research in market.

3. The thread has not violated any rules which would warrant a closure of the thread. As such do a search on the forum and you will see so many tld debate threads -- especially .mobi ones. So no, it does not threaten current sales.

4. I invest in ccTLDs all the time and profit from them. However, the whole point that domainers are stifling the growth of other TLDs -- which is the discussion of the thread -- is ludicrous!
 

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It's another conspiracy story then ?
 

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like Japanese hate when people call them Chinesse and Chinesse hate when people call them Korean.. and so on

When its intentional, yea, but when it is a mistake, no big deal. And not all asians think that way. only small, uneducated pissed off people think that way. It all comes down to business and taking over "THAT" country's extension. dont you think?

So if LB and you (or anyone) were to be from a country in asia, wouldnt you want your company to have a name that would conquer all of asia? Who cares who called you korean or chinese or japanese, you got the .asia for your business to spread and conquer over asia. so you wouldnt get any .asia!?
 

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When its intentional, yea, but when it is a mistake, no big deal. And not all asians think that way. only small, uneducated pissed off people think that way. It all comes down to business and taking over "THAT" country's extension. dont you think?

So if LB and you (or anyone) were to be from a country in asia, wouldnt you want your company to have a name that would conquer all of asia? Who cares who called you korean or chinese or japanese, you got the .asia for your business to spread and conquer over asia. so you wouldnt get any .asia!?

No, doesn't make any sense when my target is my local audience. You have to remember that it is all about branding -- if all the companies here use .in or .com then I would be using .in for my business as people will instantly recognize that it is my website.

If I tell someone to go to mysite.asia then most non-technical people -- who have no idea that there are extensions other than .com / .net / .org / their ccTLD -- will be perplexed and would visit either local extension or .com. Even if they know, they would have a tendency to remember the keyword and add .com / ccTLD to it.

To prove my statement, .co.in was the ccTLD which was used in India long before .in was released to public. Though .in is really catching up these days but people still remember .co.in. I happen to have .co.in of many popular .in sites and you'd be amazed at how much traffic they get. Why? People don't remember this newer extension but rather have a tendency to add the extension already branded in their head as their cctld -- .co.in.

So, I would rather register all ccTLD where I operate in rather than an extension people will not remember.
 

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1. I have absolutely no idea what you have written in your language. Please use english as the medium of communication unless you are posting in the language specific forums.

2. I live in Asia and the statements I have made are based on my own research in market.

3. The thread has not violated any rules which would warrant a closure of the thread. As such do a search on the forum and you will see so many tld debate threads -- especially .mobi ones. So no, it does not threaten current sales.

4. I invest in ccTLDs all the time and profit from them. However, the whole point that domainers are stifling the growth of other TLDs -- which is the discussion of the thread -- is ludicrous!

I dont see the point to write bad remarks of how domain extensions "suck". I do respect opinions of others but simply writing "sucks" about a domain extension is not good nor professional.

And seeing that we are not only discussing .com, this is an international community.

As for the Japanese, well, there are NO Japanese areas are there? There isnt any asian area here. That gives the upperhand on English-speakers to say negative things about .asia. Where can the asian community speak about .asia!?

Do understand that not all of us have started with .com and may have come late into the game. This doesnt mean that we have less experiences in marketing or research.

As for your #3, i disagree. I also took part in those discussions. Im getting sick and tired of trying to protect my investment on this board. I have the research and experience in such areas as mobile and asia. Even if i supply my evidence to support my findings, i still see ".whatever sucks". If i were to be a company interested in buying a .mobi or .asia, i surely would be checking here. While everyone keeps dogging the new extensions with unsupported negativity, I will be here to supply.

Also on your #3, i see that it would indeed violate the rules. Maybe im seeing this differently, but would like for some to see it in another perspective. We get in trouble if we were to post in sales threads. well, i have .com, .info, .jp, .mobi, and .asia. i see these extensions in every thread. and www.domain.asia is connected IMO. and that is posting something in a sales.

I still move to close this thread as it alters sales not only on this site, but also others like sedo and ebay. Im i just a minority on this? Jeshhh, its just an extension. no need to bash it to pieces simply because you didnt get any .asia.

It makes me sad to see such people would just post simply "this extension sucks". why cant anyone just be supportive in another's investment? Why shoot them down? why? WHY!? WHHHHYYY!?

I see that Ebiz4india is so correct. but we are only seeing the beginning. Why should we start bashing .asia!? Same as saying "2009 will be bad" how do you know!? It has yet to come!? But when so many people start this propoganda, others will eventually think that 2009 will be bad. I seriously think that talking bad about anything is bad. talking about extension is bad. especially if someone is not from the area nor has done efficient research.

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So, I would rather register all ccTLD where I operate in rather than an extension people will not remember.

Yea, this i agree. I have seen (i think) some talk negative about .in and they dont even live there! When this negative talk about "this extension sucks", dont you think that it alters your sales in some way?



"わかたおまえ!?おまえわからなえ� �、悪い事言うえな。" just says "do you understand? If you dont know the extension, then to talk negative about it."
 
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BTW; Every tld make sense!
.com is universal but .asia will open new opportunity for businesses in asia
It will grow in specific area, limited target yet limitless Asian audience.
Lord Brar, how many people still surfing in cybercafés, and don’t have home internet.
.mobi is tld of future internet, time has not come yet, but it will soon…
 

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ARe you sertious? There are other extentions besides .com? I heard of .net or something like that, and .org for charity organizations, but I had no idea there were other extension!

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