$$$ Y you should invest in 3 letter .us $$$

[Deleted member 4749]

I made research and found an interesting market trand of 3 letter .us which convinced me to register 1300 3 letter .us domain names.

Retail Market Analisys

It's not a secret that many 3 letter .com domain names are used by companies that don't sell their domains at any price. However a demand for a popular 3 letter acronym is pretty high. When an American business realizes they can't get .com vertion of their domain name, what would they do? They will go with .us version.

The existance of a retail market shortest .us domains is evidenced by visible sales.

Afternic:

(click on link to verify)

PAI.US $600
IAC.US $500
MMG.US $495
SFP.US $495
DTI.US $400
AKM.US $349
ITD.US $350
BMX.US $300
NTI.US $245
SOE.US $222
DOU.US $210
BHI.US $205
SFD.US $200
PIB.US $200
KJV.US $200
USF.US $200
BEC.US $200
KCC.US $200


Number of all recorded 3 letter domain sales on afternic:

.COM - 43
.US - 19
.NET - 9
.ORG - 3
.INFO - 1
.BIZ - 0

According to afternic, sales of 3 letter .US, not only beat sale of .BIZ and .INFO combined but sales of .NET and .ORG! .US stands on the second place after .COM.

This are only afternic sales, there are many private sales that took place as well but the trend is obvious.

Reseller sales
I haven't done any deep research on resellers level, however I got a significant data on reseller's activities:

From Pool.com went:

stp.us - at least $60
kib.us - at least $60
amw.us - $30 - this forum

It's also interesting that 3 letter .us are being chased and are being reregistered the same second they becone available.

Trere are also a number of serious players in the .US domain space like myself, Zauzas, Stocdoc and others who hold thousands of 3 letter .us names and there is not a chance they will drop.
You get the idea.

 

[Domainut]

Only 1780 3 letter .us domains available from the time of this post.

I have made a list of all available 3 letter .us domains along with overture statistics without the extension for each.

40 F$ Donation appreciated on registrations.

Visit DropWatch.com for the List

 

[NameTower]

What are the exact details as to whether or not one can own a .us name?

If I have hosting and such in the US, is that sufficient? I believe I have heard that from somewhere..

Thanks.

 

[Deleted member 4749]

Only 1780 3 letter .us domains available from the time of this post.

I have made a list of all available 3 letter .us domains along with overture statistics without the extension for each.

20 F$ Donation appreciated on registrations.

Visit DropWatch.com for the List

1780 domains is only 10% of all 3 letter .US
No wonder these shortest domains of the greatest economy in the world will soon be gone.

 

[bidawinner]

Only 1780 3 letter .us domains available from the time of this post.

I have made a list of all available 3 letter .us domains along with overture statistics without the extension for each.

20 F$ Donation appreciated on registrations.

Visit DropWatch.com for the List

picked up 3 more ..

F$ coming at you

 

[cinran]

Thanks for the info Blink.

And thanks for the list Domainut. I got one

F$ coming to you as soon as I figure out how to send.

 

[Honan]

What are the exact details as to whether or not one can own a .us name?

If I have hosting and such in the US, is that sufficient? I believe I have heard that from somewhere..

Thanks.

The way I read it , you just have to be doing some business in the US
Therefore we qualify by buying and selling DNs in the US

http://www.nic.us/policies/index.html \Policy Point 3
A Bona fide presence means a lawful connection with the US
IMHO that is you and me
Mind you, I have lonly ever lost on .us
Harder to shift than .cn and that is saying something !!

Do you think the registrars care anyway about the .us rules?
Look at .biz - The rules are much stricter for .biz yet they are just ignored

 

[clemzonguy]

I would have registered more but I wanted a good variety other than B, P, G, O, damn K etc. I highly doubt people are going to be buying up Q, X, Z, W etc as these will never retain high values. Each name is dependent upon a lot of luck and finding just the right company. I bought ones only so that I could use them for future companies that I setup myself. Even in the canadian namespace there are still thousands available. IMHO investing in .biz/.info 3 letters are a better idea because those can be sold worldwide but I guess you cannot beat $4.95 names while they are available.

 

[Deleted member 4749]

Only 1780 3 letter .us domains available from the time of this post.

I have made a list of all available 3 letter .us domains along with overture statistics without the extension for each.

20 F$ Donation appreciated on registrations.

Visit DropWatch.com for the List

Refresh the list d

 

[StockDoctor]

OV 83178 dbz.us Dragon Ball Z Website

Dang How did I miss that?

Congrats on whoever snagged that one for a reg fee.
Doc

 

[Deleted member 4749]

I would have registered more but I wanted a good variety other than B, P, G, O, damn K etc. I highly doubt people are going to be buying up Q, X, Z, W etc as these will never retain high values. Each name is dependent upon a lot of luck and finding just the right company. I bought ones only so that I could use them for future companies that I setup myself. Even in the canadian namespace there are still thousands available. IMHO investing in .biz/.info 3 letters are a better idea because those can be sold worldwide but I guess you cannot beat $4.95 names while they are available.

You can speculate whether .info or .biz is a better investment. I rely on facts. Sales of .US on afternic beat sales of .biz + .info 6 times.

 

[Domainut]

Rerunning the list now.Thanks to all that donated so far.

1738 available 42 taken since list posted

 

[cinran]

OV 83178 dbz.us Dragon Ball Z Website

Dang How did I miss that?

Congrats on whoever snagged that one for a reg fee.
Doc

Thanks Stocdoctor

 

[DomainOgre]

I picked up 6 so some F$ on its way .

Who got JCW.us and MDK.us? Paid for them but looks like somebody beat me by a few seconds lol.

 

[Deleted member 4749]

I got abc.us - high google and overture

 

[Darren06]

Thanks Domainut! I got UGC.us 20 DNF$ being sent!

 

[Domainut]

Thanks again. Almost finished deleting the taken names.

 

[Deleted member 4749]

only 10% of names left
Is there folks who play big? It's a $8000 investment that can make you quite a fortune. It is time.

 

[Domainut]

Updated the list but it looks like they are still going fast. 25 more regged since the update, so i will continue to update.

Thanks for the F$

 

[clemzonguy]

You can speculate whether .info or .biz is a better investment. I rely on facts. Sales of .US on afternic beat sales of .biz + .info 6 times.

Then step up to the plate and buy the rest of these names if you believe in them so much. :-D