closed who actually uses .us ?

[Wot]

Dot US, is that a new extension? :-D

 

[hhunterjr]

To see a "sample" of which companies are using dot us, run the following searches on http://www.google.com or http://www.yahoo.com

site:.us inc -state -k12 -cc -ci -co -lib -pdf -pippin

site:.us company -state -k12 -cc -ci -co -lib -pdf -pippin

This just gives you a sampling of which companies are using .us by searching for the words "inc" or "company" in .us sites (while cutting out all of the government, state, and school related websites).

Take care,

Harold Hunter Jr, Esq.
http://www.domainterritory.com

 

[Deleted member 4749]

where are you BLINK jump in here anytime

I'm not interested in rising the prices yettt. :-D

 

[Deleted member 4749]

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[rawkinrich]

My cats breath smells of cat food-

 

[Laird Mobi]

LOL @ rawkinrich!

 

[Duke]

What I have been talking about in this thread (small business fueling the current boom in the industry and boosting new extension sales) has just been acknowledged by USA Today in a new story in their Tech section called "Small businesses fuel domain name boom". Here is a link:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-06-29-domain-names_x.htm

 

[URLCollection]

That will help fuel some more growth Duke - Great exposure for the industry and your site as well. USATODAY is the real deal. Another "Good Job Duke"!!! Thanks again - Steve

 

[Duke]

That will help fuel some more growth Duke - Great exposure for the industry and your site as well. USATODAY is the real deal. Another "Good Job Duke"!!! Thanks again - Steve

There is no doubt about it Steve. USA Today has such a huge mainstream audience it will reach thousands of people who didn't know about info biz and us before. I have seen this happen repeatedly in media over the past 35 years. When new channels were opened people always filled them once they found out about them (happened in FM Radio, UHF TV and Cable TV and is now happening on the Internet). That's why I have never had any doubt the new extensions would be adopted.

The people who ignored all of the obvious signs don't know it yet, but they just missed the greatest buying opportunity this industry has seen since the mid 1990's. Some of the original new TLD owners gave up at precisely the wrong time - which I also saw happen in the cable industry in the 60's and 70's. The people who picked up the stock shares others walked away from wound up being millionaires. When peole look back on it a couple of years from now they will be stunned at what many of us picked up for reg fees in late 2003-early 2004. The window was open for about 6 months but is now shut as the big anniversary drops for all of the new TLDs are now over. It already costs about 10 times more to get the same names (and that is if you can find someone silly enough to sell them to you!).

 

[URLCollection]

Agree 100% Ron - Many jumped on the new extentsions at the roll-outs, had no luck and let them drop over the past few months. The country codes seem to be the next surge for growth starting with .us and many others. As you stated above, the regionalization of the internet will continue worldwide, thus fueling growth in the country code market. The days of one big search engine or market on the internet are gone, I think. In the very near future it will be broken down by countires, languages and regions, still driven by keyword domains in each area. We are with you Ron - glad to have been there on the roll-out on these new extentsions, as I am sure there will be a nice pay day at some point in the future for all of us.

 

[peekaboo]

hey duke, how did u ended up in 'usa today'? and will this article be in the print version?

anyway, GREAT job!!

 

[Duke]

hey duke, how did u ended up in 'usa today'? and will this article be in the print version?

anyway, GREAT job!!

Thanks producer. I don't know if this article is, was or will be in the print edition. At most mainstream media sites the stories on their websites were published in their print editions (that way they get more bang for their buck since their writers have already produced the material). I don't usually get USA Today unless I'm in the airport or at a hotel so I don't know if it was in the newstand edition yet. I Think their Tech section appears in hard copy one day a week but not sure what day that is.

 

[zouzas]

What I have been talking about in this thread (small business fueling the current boom in the industry and boosting new extension sales) has just been acknowledged by USA Today in a new story in their Tech section called "Small businesses fuel domain name boom". Here is a link:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-06-29-domain-names_x.htm

congrats Duke!! THE official Domain Reporter i always say stats are not real unless reported in www.dnjournal.US :approve:

 

[Duke]

congrats Duke!! THE official Domain Reporter i always say stats are real unless reported in www.dnjournal.US :approve:

I hope that was a typo!

It infers they are not real if we report them. :-D

 

[zouzas]

I hope that was a typo!

It infers they are not real if we report them. :-D

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[HeavyLifting]

glad to see so many happy feelings about .us.

but...

this thread was started to see if .us is actually in any real use. there have been one or two examples. is that it?!? surely, in a market that has so much potential according to so many, there must be more than metro.us and volvocars.us.....

 

[Duke]

glad to see so many happy feelings about .us.

but...

this thread was started to see if .us is actually in any real use. there have been one or two examples. is that it?!? surely, in a market that has so much potential according to so many, there must be more than metro.us and volvocars.us.....

How many thousands do you want to see? HHunter gave you the search string for Google in a post above. I put the first one in and got back 373,000 pages filled with links to .US sites. The first page alone features Disney, Konica, Novosoft and Bosch. There are countless smaller companies and, at this time at least, that is where the best market lies.

This is not directed at you Charlie, but so many people who can't see beyond .com want so badly NOT to see anything happening in new extensions, they refuse to open their eyes and look.

 

[mole]

but so many people who can't see beyond .com want so badly NOT to see anything happening in new extensions, they refuse to open their eyes and look.

Comeracts; medical condition, blurring of vision due to focusing too much on .COM

 

[gogeorge]

There may actually be more stories about the .us trend.

The media may adopt .us as a bellweather for the recovering internet.

 

[Steen]

so many people who can't see beyond .com want so badly NOT to see anything happening in new extensions, they refuse to open their eyes and look.

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