As you must have noticed, good dot com (.com) domains are scarse forcing many to purchase these domains in the secondary market and almost always pay more than $100 per domain. So, we all know how good the .com TLD is.
A few years ago, there were fewer TLDs. Life was simple and straight forward.. Now, between the country-specific and industry-specific TLDs there are hundreds of TLDs to consider when shopping for a domain name. This can be confusing especially for newbies.
Let me talk a little about the most famous TLDs and share my future predictions, for the next 10 years to come, let’s start:
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Domain Names
Domain Names, TLD
Moniker.com is currently holding a domain name auction that started on May 23rd. One of the domains is Israel.com, with the highest starting bid in the group at $5.5 million.
Some of the million-dollar and up domains include pay.com, yachts.com, AffiliateProgram.com, and Portfolios.com. Moniker CEO Monte Cahn expects to see these domains in the $1 million to $5 million range.
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Domain Names
Domain Names, Domaining
I’ve been buying domain names for 6 years. Recently, like many other investors, I jumped over to the dot ASIA domains band wagon. I purchased some 20 ASIA domains about 3 months ago and waited for the dot Asia registry to contact me. I thought they would’ve liked to verify my overseas (Asian) contact information that I went into great lengths to provide, since every dot Asia domain needs a contact person in an Asian country and I reside in the US.
Weeks and months went by, I waited for a phone call, I waited for an email but nothing happened. I registered more domains with a different email account, but got the same silence. I only heard from the domain registrar confirming my order but not from the Asia registry. I finally found a phone number and contacted a dot Asia representative in Hong Kong. They were very nice and explained how they wont need to verify my contact information.
I also was told if any other person had applied to the same domain I pre-registered for , that domain would go into auction and I’d get a chance to bid.
Yesterday, I finally got a word back on some the domains I hoped to own. The emails came from my registrar not the Asia registry which is not surprising. Naturally, I was excited. Holey smokes, I could be the proud owner of a cool domain such as FREE.asia. However, the first 5 emails politely stated that my registration was denied by the Asia registry. No reasons were given to explain why my applications were declined, no offers to bid on the domains, nothing what so ever.. to say the least, I was disappointed.
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Domain Names
Domain Names, Domaining, dot Asia
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