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As
developers, buyers and sellers of .US domains ourselves, we
hold a large portfolio of .US domains that produced
its highest returns in the 20 years we've spent assembling
it. We sold 49 .US domains over the past 12 months (an
average of almost one a week) with the vast majority of
those going to small to medium sized businesses (SMBs).
That
is all further evidence to us that .US is making up for
lost time after being kept off limits to everyday
Americans for the first 17 years of its
existence! It is hard to believe the country's official
country code top level domain, the very first ccTLD on
the Internet, was not available to the vast majority of
U.S. citizens for so long. However, that was indeed the case
from the TLD's birth in 1985 until it was finally
given its own freedom on April 24, 2002 (a
story we detailed in an article
posted on the 20th anniversary of that historic
event.
ADN
was launched with the goal of helping to right that wrong by
bringing as much recognition as possible to America's
Internet Address. As the online home of the world's most
powerful economy, .US is a brand that will sell itself if
American businesses, individuals and organizations (as well
as those who do business in or with the U.S.) are made aware
that it is there for them. They will see that .US
makes it still possible to get a short, memorable domain
name at a very affordable price.
.Com
is without question a great domain extension, one
that we love as much as anyone, but those looking for a
domain today will find that over 161 million names
been taken in .com. By comparison, less than 2 million
are gone in .US. That means there are 159 million names
you can't get in .com that are available in
.US. If the name you want has been taken in .US your cost to
buy it on the aftermarket, if for sale, will still be a
small fraction of what the same domain would cost in
.com.
These
are just some of the many reasons we have always been bullish
on .US (with more reasons shared throughout this site). With
our physical home in the USA and ADN's internet home
on .US we couldn't be happier to be able to celebrate
the birthday of both our country and our website on
the same day. We hope all of you who are celebrating have a
wonderful holiday too!
Posted
July 4, 2022. Permalink for this story:
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