.us – Internetblog.org.uk https://www.internetblog.org.uk Web hosting, Domain names, Dedicated servers Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:05:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.5 https://www.internetblog.org.uk/files/2016/01/cropped-favico-32x32.png .us – Internetblog.org.uk https://www.internetblog.org.uk 32 32 Dismal results for .us domain auction https://www.internetblog.org.uk/post/1514/dismal-results-for-us-domain-auction/ Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:24:16 +0000 http://www.internetblog.org.uk/post/1514/dismal-results-for-us-domain-auction/ brooklyn bridge
A well-publicized auction of 86 .us domains ended today and yielded some pretty poor results. Only 29 of the names (34%) sold, in part because of sellers who overestimated the value of their names and set obscenely high reserve prices.

The only real winner of the lot is flights.us, which sold for $11,700. Tailing far behind came airlinetickets.us and creditreports.us for $3,600 each. Gadgets.us fetched $2050, eagle.us $480, spamblocker.us $325 and carpenter.us $1180.

What does this tell us? The .us extension is not a very valuable ccTLD. Sure, there’s more demand for it than most, but .us does not have the same following as .de, .uk or .ca. Based on these results, I would not recommend investing much money in a .us name. Those stubborn Americans are dead-set on sticking with .com.

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]]> Hollywood.us sells for £3,455 https://www.internetblog.org.uk/post/336/hollywoodus-sells-for-3455/ Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:22:23 +0000 http://www.internetblog.org.uk/post/336/hollywoodus-sells-for-3455/ hollywood california
In the land of the rich and fame, nothing is too expensive. Bidders apparently felt the same sentiment at a recent domain auction where Hollywood.us sold for £3,455 ($5,700 USD).

High as it may seem, the buyer got a great deal. Hollywood.mobi fetched £9,699, or $16,000 USD, at a 2008 auction. Hollywood.ca went for £8,214 ($13,550 USD) a year earlier in 2007, while in 2006, Hollywood.co.uk sold for £10,570 ($17,438 USD). Even Hollywood.co.in, an Indian domain, sold for £4,243 ($7,000 USD) that same year!

I think Hollywood.us should have sold for more because while the extension isn’t as good as .com or .net, .us is the ccTTD of the United States. While .uk is the most valuable ccTLD, Hollywood isn’t in the UK. Bidders apparently either didn’t care about or didn’t realize the geographical significance of the extension they were bidding on.

Source | The Domains

]]> American company turns to .us domain for new site https://www.internetblog.org.uk/post/238/american-company-turns-to-us-domain-for-new-site/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:04:31 +0000 http://www.internetblog.org.uk/post/237/american-company-turns-to-us-domain-for-new-site/ purple communications logoIn most countries, use of ccTLDs is common practice. Despite the wide availability of the .us domain, most American companies choose to stick with the tried and tested .com. Go America, a publicly traded communications company, decided to take a different route.

The company recently renamed itself Purple Communications and launched a new site. Rather than spend a large sum of money to buy Purple.com, it instead choose the moniker Purple.us.

Foreign companies operating in the United States such as BMW and Iceland Air use the .us name, but this trend hasn’t caught on with domestic corporations.

As .com domains become scarcer and more expensive and Internet users become more familiar with ccTLDs, .us will gain more widespread adoption.

I personally am a fan of the .us domain. It is shorter than .com and given the connotations of the word “us,” is official-sounding. Hopefully more companies will follow Purple’s path.

Source: DNJournal.com

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