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United States Of America 28 State Domain Names Are For Sale
Domain informer, IL - Jul 3, 2006
... Address Company who is best known in the industry for leveling the playing field to allow smaller investors easier access into the lucrative domain, has gone ...


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[Ubiquitous]

I saw an article about this a while back..

I was about to reg a few ".st" names, although I didn't do when someone said they are about the most worthless ccTLD's out there. I still have an interest in them, but still not completely certain...

 

[carlton]

Their auction guidelines for each state in ".st" require bids beginning at $500,000, :mmph:

No investor would ever shell out half a million dollars for such a thing when a US state in a more authentic and familiar extension can be acquired for a fraction of the price.

 

[simon]

they say Texas.st is a fully funtional site, but i was disspointed to see that it is redirected to a site named
http://gvista.com/indextexas.htm

 

[brian1234]

...and when did the TLD '.st' suddenly denote
'State', my understanding is that the '.st' registry
have only ever touted it as 'Street' (looks like TLD's
can mean pretty much anything then when you are
wanting to make a sale...).

Also, this 'news' has been on this forum many times
now, and it looks like the owner isn't getting a sale
so he tries to do a different Press Release every so
often.

 

[Bookworm SEO]

nic.st is promoting it as street, but many people also see it as state

 

[pigman]

I see it as .shit

 

[Bill Roy]

Just to set the record straight, I now no longer employ or have any other association with the said company.

By the way it is actually now 31 States (plus 5 hyphenated States).

As for peoples opinions I would suggest that they look at the relatively brief history of domains. It seems not long ago that people said only dotcoms had value!

It is not so much what domainers interpret a suffix to mean as it is what the public interprets a suffix to mean.

 

[Domagon]

.ST seems too contrived ... most Americans would associate ST with
"street" way before they would with "state".

StateName.US would make more sense ... and guess what, those exist today ... plus furthermore, some already work, such as http://www.ohio.us

Ron

 

[Bill Roy]

Hi Domagon,

Fair comment, but how many times a day is the average american exposed to 'StateName US'? Now think how many times a day the same Americans are exposed to 'StateName St'?

This is the difference, domainers have to take on board that the absolute end-user in this business is the public and not we domainers! By the way just think next time you read an article or see a score board, with say 'Utah St', that that is all free advertising for the 'Utah.St' domain name!

 

[Domagon]

I've been involved in domains for many years and this thread was the first I'd heard of .ST being used for anything.

So if .ST is very obscure and alien to me, I can't imagine the average American having any clue as to what .ST is let alone what it even means...

Heck, I'd bet that many, even if they see THEIRSTATE.ST advertised somewhere, would think .ST domains are fake computer addresses much like 555 telephone prefixed numbers often used in TV programs, etc.

On a related note ... when choices exist, people will tend to gravitate to what they know / familiar with ... thus even if .ST domains are heavily promoted, chances are many people won't use them or type in the address using the .COM and/or .US TLD instead by accident, etc.

One already sees that with toll-free numbers ... most people will get 800 / 888 right, but if it's a 877 or 866 number all bets are off ... many will mistakeningly dial 800 and/or 888 instead ... very akin to what happens in the domain name realm with .COM verses other TLDs.

Ron