The most exciting tld of the year

[angel69]

I'm perplexed to see this, wow... I never thought an LL.pw would go nearly as high, the extension just came to life recently and people are already making big bucks reselling that ! lol.....maybe a firm called something like Qualitative Resources thought it needed it .....lol ? too lazy to ck any WHOIS this late...

If that was possible then anything is .....what's next ? that we'll actually meet a domainer on DNF who actually lives in Cocos Islands ? lmfao...

:fish2:

Cocos Islands (.cc) population - 596
Tuvalu (.tv) population - 10,544
Palau (.pw) population - 20,956

Amazing to see QR.PW sell for $6,500...

 

[amplify]

I don't even know where the Cocos Islands are, but if it's tropical and foreigner friendly... seems like a good vacation. :approve:

If QR.PW was purchased by a domainer, they ought to know the saying, "once you drive off the lot... [it's worth nothing]".

 

[katherine]

I am all good with any extension with a LL. Just sayin.

Then there are better ccTLDs to choose from.

Amazing to see QR.PW sell for $6,500...

There is one domainer buying QR.ccTLD domains. I hope he didn't make that mistake. Plus, QR is TM.

 

[amplify]

I couldn't find any exact matches for the "QR" trademark like "FB", but if used as fair usage with QR codes or another acronym not competing with a trademark, it should be safe... but QR.pw for $6500 when you can buy much much better?

 

[angel69]

the point is a valid one since many of the newer gTLDs and even the more mainstream ccTLDs simply do not allow CC domains, most begin at 3-chars (and i wonder why exactly that is....)

havin said that, wouldn't you rather reg/buy 10 or 20 decent domains (where 2-chars are permitted) in a less awkward extension ? lol, something about .PeeWee just doesn't jive with me lol

and i keep thinkin of .WEB, apparently not even available yet (no sign of its cost either) but pre-reg is free, i might just dip my toes in one or two .WEBs if they're not priced crazy.... [email protected] lol, doesn't it sound light yrs better than with the weirder exts ?....

and i had said elsewhere i like .pro too, same thing as .web tho, no reg fee yet, no launch date, but preregs are free...

...... I am all good with any extension with a LL. Just sayin......

 

[NAK]

I don't even know where the Cocos Islands are,

Costa Rica

Legend has it that 350 tons of gold is buried there.

 

[angel69]

Is there more than one ? The ones I knew about were Cocos Is (aka Keeling Is) in the Indian Ocean, west of AU...... mentioned around the 2004 Tsunami and I also remember .cc being intro'd and wondering what the country was

Costa Rica
Legend has it that 350 tons of gold is buried there.

 

[amplify]

I actually spent 1 minute of researching where the hell it was by using Wikipedia (I don't take it 100% as truth, but this looks legit):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocos_(Keeling)_Islands

So it seems as if angel69 was in the right hemispheres of the world (North & East).

 

[MAllie]

Costa Rica

Legend has it that 350 tons of gold is buried there.

I heard that about the domain market too.

 

[Jiblob]

.co is not even close.

How many .co do you visit on a daily basis ?
How many big companies use one ?
How many .co do YOU use for business ?

Answer: nobody uses a .co for anything remotely serious.
The exception in within Colombia proper of course.

Ermmmm VINE.co?

 

[amplify]

Ermmmm VINE.co?

Not an Apple user, but it wasn't necessary to brand with "VINE" as it's an application made by Vine Labs, Inc. They could quite possibly have registered a company name and then referenced their application on their website or pick another brandable name in the dot com for $2500-$5000.

A prime example of an application/social networking site (I believe started here in Japan) uses their corporate, Japanese ccTLD, as their website. As they've reached 100,000,000 users worldwide (a 1/10th of Facebook and could possibly be the next FB), they have the resources to purchase LINE.com if necessary. However, they still chose to use their corporate website http://line.naver.jp/en/ and still continually grow rapidly on a daily basis. Mind you, FB made a multi-million dollar/stock options purchase of FB.com a while ago, LINE hasn't made a move (possibly)... but still remain in the game.

Why use .co? Why not vinelabsinc.com/vine? :?:

 

[katherine]

There may be exceptions. Yet I wouldn't invest in .fm because there is one successful site in .fm (last.fm) and that applies to any other extension.

For a TLD to succeed, it's not enough to have a few major sites using it.
There has to be critical mass, and I'm not talking about the registration stats here.

 

[Jiblob]

Not an Apple user, but it wasn't necessary to brand with "VINE" as it's an application made by Vine Labs, Inc. They could quite possibly have registered a company name and then referenced their application on their website or pick another brandable name in the dot com for $2500-$5000.

A prime example of an application/social networking site (I believe started here in Japan) uses their corporate, Japanese ccTLD, as their website. As they've reached 100,000,000 users worldwide (a 1/10th of Facebook and could possibly be the next FB), they have the resources to purchase LINE.com if necessary. However, they still chose to use their corporate website http://line.naver.jp/en/ and still continually grow rapidly on a daily basis. Mind you, FB made a multi-million dollar/stock options purchase of FB.com a while ago, LINE hasn't made a move (possibly)... but still remain in the game.

Why use .co? Why not vinelabsinc.com/vine? :?:

Twitter created Vine. I guess they can only answer why it was necessary for them to use 'Vine.co' as the domain.

I can answer why VineLabsInc.com wasn't their preferred domain however - cause it's awful!