zouzas - This should help your push for .us

[dloft]

http://www.MJnews.us


lol.

 

[Spider]

I posted the above, forgot to change accounts.

lol.

 

[zouzas]

is that real it'd be great if its real ALL publicity to any unknown extension is exposure to the extension,,with millions accessing it will make .US awareness overnight!! to think it detracts from the extension is to say the first porn sites detracted from .com..

 

[zouzas]

wow it does look real thanks for posting,,,they didn;t even bother to register .biz or .info its still available to be registered....

 

[darrenl]

certainly does...

 

[Duke]

That is pretty amazing - especially since the .com is for sale for $1450 (that is less than the price of lunch for MJ!). The WhoIs for the .US still shows it belonging to a woman in Elma, Washington who has it listed for sale. Wonder if a sale just happened and the WhoIs hasn't updated?

 

[zouzas]

Originally posted by Duke
That is pretty amazing - especially since the .com is for sale for $1450 (that is less than the price of lunch for MJ!). The WhoIs for the .US still shows it belonging to a woman in Elma, Washington who has it listed for sale. Wonder if a sale just happened and the WhoIs hasn't updated?

the plot thickens looks like they bought it cause it was registered in 2002 ,,they could have easily just registered .biz or .info or bought the .com for 1450 or why not all of them,,,one things for sure .us is on every major news site right now,,,,,

 

[Duke]

Looks like it is legit - Associated Press is reporting it now too and quoting Jackson's spokesman about the site itself! BIG boost for .US!

 

[zouzas]

Originally posted by Duke
Looks like it is legit - Associated Press is reporting it now too and quoting Jackson's spokesman about the site itself! BIG boost for .US!

certainly wasn;t the kind of press i was expecting for .US but i guess any press brings exposure to an unknown extension,,,

someone just regsiter mjnews.info and mjnews.ws the .biz and .cc still available,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[oxen]

It is in CNN ...

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/LAW/11/24/jackson.web/index.html

 

[zouzas]

Originally posted by oxen
It is in CNN ...

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/LAW/11/24/jackson.web/index.html

wow ,,,someone just registered the info,ws&.biz , still .tv and /cc avaiable,,


there won;t be anyone who doesn;t know about .US after today.

 

[Duke]

I would sure like to know what their thought process was when they went about selecting this domain. The .info - which is perfectly suited to news sites and is a global extension (befitting Jackson's global fame) was sitting there unregistered when they apparently bought the .US in the aftermarket and put the site on it. Wonder if they are thinking its adds a little patriotic sheen to the tarnished Jackson name? I've always thought that was one major positive about .US.

P.S. Someone also registered MJNewsUS.com!

P.P.S. I was just getting ready to put my usual ad for the sales thread together. I think this might be a good week to run .US again. :-D

 

[darrenl]

.us is to America as .de is to Germany

 

[oxen]

Whatever it is, dot US beat every other DOT today ...

 

[zouzas]

Originally posted by Duke
I would sure like to know what their thought process was when they went about selecting this domain. The .info - which is perfectly suited to news sites and is a global extension (befitting Jackson's global fame) was sitting there unregistered when they apparently bought the .US in the aftermarket and put the site on it. Wonder if they are thinking its adds a little patriotic sheen to the tarnished Jackson name? I've always thought that was one major positive about .US.

P.S. Someone also registered MJNewsUS.com!

P.P.S. I was just getting ready to put my usual ad for the sales thread together. I think this might be a good week to run .US again. :-D

duke what i missed and just found out is that mjnews.ORG was already owned by jackson back in 2002 ,,,,,,,,,,and what im perplexed about is not only could have they bought mjnews.com which on a sensitive topic as this is would be a safer bet , why now go with an UNKNOWN pick??

 

[zouzas]

Originally posted by oxen
Whatever it is, dot US beat every other DOT today ...

it will be interesting to see if the regs picks up after today...

 

[zouzas]

its official the whois was just updated for mjnews.us to jackson,


theres some trying to grab the traffic www.mjnews.info



i wonder how many times larry king tonight will say mjnews.us

 

[zouzas]

.US is now plastered on all over Larry King Live.........

 

[David G]

Originally posted by zouzas .US is now plastered on all over Larry King Live.........

Of course, it helps but the problem remains .us and other ext rarely have type-ins from the public, the type-in's still most all go to the dot-com.

Often when I give someone my dot-us email address over the phone they either send the email to a dot-com address in error, or else ask what dot-us is? saying do I really mean com, or sometimes repeating like this example: domainnameUS.com adding the us to the name, and adding the com ext.

It's too bad the dot us registry has fumbled the ball so badly and barely advertised the extension in almost 2-yrs, apparently preferring to save money on marketing expense rather than make the ext more popular with the general public.

 

[mole]

Originally posted by RealNames
Often when I give someone my dot-us email address over the phone they either send the email to a dot-com address in error, or else ask what dot-us is?

Those numbers should dwindle over time. I know of people who still don't know what Windows XP is.