Domain Name Registrar, OnlyDomains.com has started to sell new gTLD’s chatting about the second coming of .Com domain aftermarket saying on the front page of its site:
“Remember when the domain name Beer.com sold for $7 million dollars? ”
“For the first time since the dawn of the Internet, people everywhere have an opportunity to claim ownership of a whole new range of top level domain web addresses. ”
“Domains like .App, .Venture, and even .Sex are coming soon. How much will yours be worth? ”
“Register one today and find out!”
In our opinion its another misleading attempt to get people to register new gTLD domains.
“”For the first time since the dawn of the Internet, people everywhere have an opportunity to claim ownership of a whole new range of top level domain web addresses. “”
Hum
Many of the best .com’s of course that were sold for huge money were not sold by those that registered them at the dawn of the internet.
Lets take Beer.com as an example.
That domain really was registered at the dawn of the Internet way back in 1993.
The domain did in fact sell for $ 7 million but not for 11 years in 2004.
The original registrant of the domain wasn’t the one who sold the domain.
The domain was in fact bought for $80,000 and then was resold as a beer portal for $7 Million several months later.
There are a ton of people out there that missed the .com era, they weren’t born or were too young, or didn’t get the Internet thing or the domain things or lost interest after the .com crash.
But lets remember the most successful domain name investor of all time Frank Schilling didn’t really build his .com empire until after 2000 soem 7 years after beer.com was first registered.
There will a lot of investment coming in for those looking for the second coming, which is why you will see more and more of this type of advertising to appeal to them.
I hope domain registrars don’t take huge leaps of fact to entice registrations.
Was bound to happen sooner rather than later.
This tack reminds me of the ‘learn affiliate marketing’ squeeze pages.
The problem there too was that the people selling the courses made money, not those who bought them, don’t see it being much different here either – registries will profit, registrant ‘profits’ are the matter of speculation.
Very misleading but unfortunately history always repeats itself.
Landrush after landrush, people lose money because they see opportunities that aren’t there.
When you don’t do your homework, you fail and this is true for any industry.
Onlydomains ‘DOT COM’…
Do as I say, not as I do.
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1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
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There are no new gTLD’s that can be used at this point so what would you have onlydomains.com do?
there is dozens of existing alternatives other than DOT COM:
to name a few : the highly acclaimed dot co (rolling my eyes), or dot biz or dot info , dot us etc etc and more etc
why not preach by example?
why use a “Future” AM Radio of an extension? which days are counted…
(I believe only Donuts is doing it and my guess is that’s only because they couldn’t get the DOT COM)
or are you to tell me those *alternatives are NOT good?
*The Rolling Tumbleweeds
The greatest challenge this avalanche of new domain extensions must first overcome will be to compete for recall, not only against one another, but especially against the domination of the internet by dot-com, an extension so deeply ingrained as to have become virtually synonymous with ‘web’. Savvy webmasters will brand TLD sites with easy to remember .com taglines and missionlines to work as secondary web addresses. This can become a goldmine for descriptive .com domain names.
Have a cold beer … But Don’t Drink “That” KoolAid !!! … remember Jim Jones
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