Best of .US contest

[StockDoctor]

http://www.neustar.us/bestofus/winner.html

 

[mole]

If I recall correctly, one of the forum members here owns lemurs something.

 

[crabby]

lemurs.us is a nice website, lots of cute lemurs to look at ... very clean.

But is that really the best out of all the choices? Hmmmmm.

 

[adoptabledomains]

You'd think a .us site in best-of contest would at least be about an animal that is actually native to the US, not Madagascar.

 

[garyted51]

I have GovernmentBonds.us....amongst a slew of others. By the way! Slew.us is open. If anybody really cares.

 

[Duke]

Originally posted by garyted51
I have GovernmentBonds.us....amongst a slew of others. By the way! Slew.us is open. If anybody really cares.

Slew.us is open but SeattleSlew.us is not.

 

[garyted51]

ILoveKids.us

 

[linkdomain]

nice site....give .us a few years....

 

[RON2]

If that is the *best* represenative of the .US namespace... that is sad. :sad:

 

[Duke]

Originally posted by -RJ-
If that is the *best* represenative of the .US namespace... that is sad. :sad:

Unfortunately -RJ- is right. Looks like a $15 template with some minor modifications.

 

[jalapeno]

Hi guys,

Lemurs.us is my site. It wasn't from a template... I'm a web designer and I created the site because of my interest in lemurs.

Although I like the site, I was surprised to have it chosen, too. Since the contest wasn't very well-publicized as far as I know, it must have been the best among the entries ("several dozen" really isn't that many). I'm sure there are better .us sites among the general population of the net, but I was excited to have mine chosen for this contest by Neustar.

 

[mole]

I tot Jal was a guy

Congrats Jal!

 

[jalapeno]

Thanks Mole.

Nah, I'm not a guy. But forget you know that or I'll have to bring the little yellow pill next time....

 

[cxz]

Congrats! Being a winner webdesigner -not only a domain speculator- can you tell us
what tools do you recommend for designing websites?

 

[Duke]

Oops - look like RJ & I stuck our feet in our mouthes again!

Should have know anyone that wins an award on the web is likely to be a member here! I didn't mean to rain on your parade Jalapeno - and there is nothing at all wrong with the lemurs.us web site. It is just that I thought for a Best of the .US competition the winner would have been some expensive state-of-the-art site with all of the bells and whistles.

Congratulations on being chosen - it's a nice feather in your cap that you will always have!

 

[Biggie]

Didn't know about the contest. I could have hooked-up...

"HuntingSeason.US"
Could have put that "lemur" on the list. :laugh:

Then stepped on him with my.....

"FootGear.US"

 

[jalapeno]

No problemo Duke! I completely understand what you mean.

cxz - for tools I like Photoshop for graphics (although the much-less-expensive Paint Shop Pro works well, too) and freeware 1st Page 2000 by Evrsoft (www.evrsoft.com) for putting the pages together. I pretty much use it like a text editor, though, with the benefit of the preview window and color-coded tags. It's not wysiwyg.

Hey, no shootin' at or stompin' on my lemurs... :laugh:

 

[Duke]

Good - glad you forgive me Jalapeno! I registered StartingLine.us earlier today to use to build a .US portal that will link to the better .US sites on the net. (Starting Line gets big Overture and Google numbers so it looks like it will be a good name for this purpose). I will categorize the sites by subject matter (kind of like a mini Yahoo Directory - but limited to .US domains).

I think .US will happen and to help it along I want to start promoting it more by putting some sites on the net. I know of some other exciting .US projects in the works involving members here.

I am starting work on the Domain Name Journal site this weekend (it will be at dnjournal.com). That will eat up most of the coming month then I will turn to StartingLine.us for my January project. Should have it up by the end of that month. Already have a beautiful red white and blue design ready to go! I'll be sure and add a lemurs.us link when I'm doing it.

 

[bidawinner]

Originally posted by Duke of Earl
Good - glad you forgive me Jalapeno! I registered StartingLine.us earlier today to use to build a .US portal that will link to the better .US sites on the net. (Starting Line gets big Overture and Google numbers so it looks like it will be a good name for this purpose). I will categorize the sites by subject matter (kind of like a mini Yahoo Directory - but limited to .US domains).

I think .US will happen and to help it along I want to start promoting it more by putting some sites on the net. I know of some other exciting .US projects in the works involving members here.

I am starting work on the Domain Name Journal site this weekend (it will be at dnjournal.com). That will eat up most of the coming month then I will turn to StartingLine.us for my January project. Should have it up by the end of that month. Already have a beautiful red white and blue design ready to go! I'll be sure and add a lemurs.us link when I'm doing it.

Thanks Duke,

I keep passing different names around to us for a .US directory...

since your are working on one I can move over to some other projects ..!

Give a holler when your ready for submissions..

 

[bidawinner]

Originally posted by jalapeno
Hi guys,

Lemurs.us is my site. It wasn't from a template... I'm a web designer and I created the site because of my interest in lemurs.

Although I like the site, I was surprised to have it chosen, too. Since the contest wasn't very well-publicized as far as I know, it must have been the best among the entries ("several dozen" really isn't that many). I'm sure there are better .us sites among the general population of the net, but I was excited to have mine chosen for this contest by Neustar.

Congrates Jalapeno...!