My First Developed New TLD Website: NewNames.info - NewNames.biz - NewNames.us

[URLCollection]

Great Site Ron!!! Cutting Edge!!! Nice picture of Richard - should be worth $1.00 a click or more. Does that mean Richard is sitting on all those heavy .com's? As far as the net's go - You are right they are only for us amateurs. Another super site - Best of luck - Steve

 

[Duke]

Nice picture of Richard

We better stop this - people will start believing that really is Richard! You know what, a scary thought just occurred to me. Richard seems to WANT people to think that is him. That tells me Richard actually looks much WORSE than the guy in the photo!

 

[URLCollection]

Ha Ha Ha... No I think Richard looks just great in the photo - "A man of means" Anyhow - Nice site Ron - You are all over it!!! Best - Steve

 

[Duke]

As far as the .com domain being made fun of...

I seem to remember the .com-only boys dishing out plenty of abuse on new TLD's. Now I'm supposed to somehow believe that turnabout isn't fair play?

Nothing to get bent out of shape over in any case. .Com is a big boy and a little ribbing isn't going to change it's status one bit. By the same token, the New TLD genie is out of the bottle, he is granting wishes (to small businessmen who want memorable names at reasonable prices) and nothing anyone says is going to change that now.

(hey, next marketing idea: Domain in a bottle???)

Hmm...domain in a bottle. I don't know about that one. There's all those darn bottle deposits to have to deal with!

 

[izopod]

Hmm...domain in a bottle. I don't know about that one. There's all those darn bottle deposits to have to deal with!

Lol...

Seriously... The "Domain Name in a bottle" concept is no joke.

In the "bottle" you have website design services (for new domains)--yes THERE IS a different way you build .biz sites compared to .com sites--actually there isn't, but you see my point---it all falls back to the category of creating markets; consultation work on the prospective buyer's site (being that he/she will be buying one of these "new domain"); and marketing services to promote (yup, their new domain)

Here is a potential client, who is asking a question as to whether "he" should go with a .biz name for his site. He apparently is all for it, but there is some hesitation on his staff.

http://www.e-consultancy.com/forum/101128-doing-the-dot-biz.html --fairly recent post 5/24/04---trust me, more questions like this gentlemen's will be posed in the coming years... Who will be there to answer these questions (for a price??)

This would be such an easy sell it wouldn't even be funny. He wants someone to tell him what he should do. Should he go with a .biz name or not?? Being that the "new domains" are so "new", there are obviously a lot of questions that could be "expertly" handled by "NewNames.info/.biz/.us". That is where you make your money is the consulting part. The domain name "in the bottle" would be part of the services you offer.

Ok... I've said to much...but hopefully you catch my drift. Don't become just another "domain site". Become a "new domain" expert that many businesses, corporations and individuals can go to for answers. What companies are using .biz?? (who else would have this info besides Neulevel)... What is the advantage to using .us as opposed to .biz. (What essentially you'd be doing is "creating" a market that's really not there---remember my long winded post a few weeks ago???)

Good luck with your online venture Duke. This consultation was a freebie!!

 

[Duke]

Thanks Izopod. Some good ideas well worth consideration there.

 

[mole]

hmm... the time has finally come.

I think what duke is doing today, brings back memories of what the so-called Domain King did in 1997.

The ridiculous prices paid for .COM in the past, is gone, finito.

New extensions will gradually dilute .com with AFFORDABILITY and availability, and businesses will be hard pressed to justify to management being held ransom to this vestige of the past after being totally disillusioned and insulted by sellers asking $10k for a non-descript junk .com name. Sure, you get the ocassional optimistic sale on .com, from buyers still rooted in the past, and speculators still rooted in dreams of early retirement.

And of course, the mind manipulation games of the so-called "big players" who publicise fake sales that run over a million dollars to buoy the market with hope.

When you own sex.com, it is easy to criticise other unfortunate small "farts" from making a living in the only way they can afford with the little money they erk out through honest sweat and tears. "Hard luck, stupid! I was here first, so bow to me, you loser. Reap and weep my fart."

Life is fair. The next generation will have their own.

 

[clemzonguy]

I feel like we are a kind of domain name equal rights march. The potential is really in you and what you do with the site not in the extension. People need to stop thinking about .com type-in revenue streams long enough to focus on development of their sites beyond a PPC. This will happen over the course of the summer and into the fall as people will notice how things start to dry up and have nothing else to do with their time. The only question remains is where will we be 5-10-15 years from now. How will things have changed. For .com it has a 14+ yrs track record while some of these other extensions are fairly new 2-3yrs. Net is not a looser if you hold prime keywords but usually i'm buying com/org first and leaving net for the speculators (unless that person ends up being me b/c everything else is taken). For branding purposes it isn't so bad as people make it out to be but it gives me bad dreams of microsoft now....

 

[daniel]

Duke

I think what you are doing can potentially pave the way (our) industry looks at the alternate TLD's. Look at the interest so far.. Most of this is a result of several factors one of them being your promotion. You are a very vocal and well respected
part of this community and people listen. As a result of this we all can expect
to see our alternate TLD's raise in value. Keep up the great work!

 

[Duke]

Thanks Daniel, but you're probably overestimating any impact I am having on the prices we are seeing now. Most people who read what I say are inside the domain community (and primarily resellers). The sharp jump in four-figure (and higher) sales is coming from end users who have never heard of me. My own new TLD sales in the past month have swung from a 50-50 wholesale/enduser balance to almost all small business end users (and this is great because they pay a lot more).

This is a market demand that is coming from outside, primarily from businesses that have been priced out of the .com market learning that there is a viable alternative and seizing the opportunity to grab a decent name while they can (those opportunities won't last forever in the new TLD's either). I just sold TownCenter.info for a nice 3-figure price yesterday and the buyer told me he was taking it because the .com was too expensive for him. This morning I sold Arrangement.info for a high 3-figure price (now in Escrow) for the same reason. Also, sold a matching .us./.biz combo for high 3 figures earlier this week. The number of offers I am getting is accelerating dramatically.

From my first day in the business I have felt the new TLD's would inevitably break out (because I had already seen this happen with every other new space created in other branches of the media, including radio & TV). Even so, I am a bit shocked myself because I thought with the new extensions only a couple of years old it would be another 2-3 years before we saw this kind of activity. I think it is happening this quickly because .com prices have skyrocketed in the past year to the point that only major corporations can afford them. That leaves the much larger small to medium size business market wide open for the new TLDs.

Unfortunately, I think the primary impact I have had with my comments about new TLD's is to increase my competition, raising my expenses and costing me a lot of new acquisitions I might have had otherwise! I would have been much better off if I had kept quiet, but it is hard to run a news magazine without reporting what is happening!

 

[daniel]

Unforutnately, I think the primary impact I have had with my comments about new TLD's is to increase my competition, raising my expenses and costing me a lot of new acquisitions I might have had otherwise! I would have been much better off if I had kept quiet, but it is hard to run a news magazine without reporting what is happening!

LOL, that is exactly how i feel sometimes with the expired domain name scripts and services Keep up the great work Ron, your efforts are appreciated!