Just a quick question to see which TLD's (top level domains) seem to be most popular nowadays...

It's a multiple selection poll so please tick a box for each TLD you personally own (not clients). Okay... well not personally own the actual TLD, you know what I mean ;)

I suspect .COM will be the most popular ... with .NET and .ORG coming in second and then .INFO, .TK and .US domains after that.

But you never know... should be interesting to see and you get to tick a lot of little boxes - which is always fun :)

http://www.sotd.info/sotd/content/documents/SOTDQ103.pdf

cool document... thanks for the link.

I have mostly .com's, .net's and .co.uk's... never really bothered with .info and the like.

Aaron

I've got mostly .com's and .net's and a few .co.uk's :).

I have 10 .co.uk's and 1 .com, im hoping to get some more .com's and maybe some .net's in the near future :D

I own

.net/.com..org/.us/.co.uk/me.uk/org.uk/.tk/

Maybe a few others

I own only coms and a few nets.... nothing else...

6 - .com
1 - .ns.ca
1 - .ca

I have a few .nets the rest are all .com.

I have 3 .coms and thats it.

TM still "0" ??

Originally posted by bagfull
TM still "0" ??

no surprise to me. You must register for at least 10 years, so it's very expensive, and for trademarks you can as well register .com or if taken yet the ccTLD of the country where the company is based.

It surprises me more that .tv domains (who are excellent for sites with many media files) only scored 1 so far. I'd like one myself but they're still a bit expensive for me.


Originally posted by fstudios
6 - .com
1 - .ns.ca
1 - .ca


what's .ns.ca ??



Originally posted by D0mainGuru
I own

.net/.com..org/.us/.co.uk/me.uk/org.uk/.tk/

Maybe a few others


I don't know if .me.uk are good investments. .co.uk and .org.uk are more famous and very cheap as well at some places, so why taking .me.uk ? By the way, not many .co.uk registrars that also offer .me.uk

It's like .nnn.nl , .id.au and .name . For name domains I think .me.uk is as low in value as .nnn.nl or .id.au , if I want a personal domain I'll take the .com or eventually .name or .be (as a Belgian)



Personally, I "have" two .tk domains ("own" is not correct for free .tk domains) and own two .com domains.

I hope .eu is there soon, there are at least 2 .eu's I would love to have. For Europeans (like me and a minority on this forum) I think .eu will be the next best thing after .com
Anyway, I am very very enthousiast about .eu

1- .Com
thats it!

.info - 1
.co.uk - 1
.biz - 3
.net - 22 (all but one is duplicate of a .com)
.com - several hundred.

Tell me one thing.You guys have 100 + domains.What do you with them? Do you also have 100+ sites so thats why you have registered or something else?

******* incognito that is a lot of domains.

I dont even see the use of having more than 5 domains...

(unless for your clients)

i have 3 .com (1 for a client)

Originally posted by ReFiNeD
******* incognito that is a lot of domains.

I dont even see the use of having more than 5 domains...

(unless for your clients)

i have 3 .com (1 for a client)


If you have over 5 sites... Building a site has become quite easy and inexpensive nowadays, so why not owning 10 domains then ?

On the other hand, that must be the maximum for me. I cannot imagine someone has the time to work on several hundred websites :eek:

for the moment I have two .com for 1 site, that's enough I guess until I launch an additional site.

I own about 250 mixed com net org biz info us nu bz st and about 150 .ru and domains. and .su domain too:)

2 .com

Originally posted by Vladimir S.
I own about 250 mixed com net org biz info us nu bz st and about 150 .ru and domains. and .su domain too:)


what is the use of .bz and especially what's the use of .su and .st ??

.su = Sudan
.st = St Helena (right ?)

what is the use of them, unless you live in Sudan or on St-Helena ? Plus, St-Helena domains are very expensive.

hmm... actually, according to www.nic.st: .st domains are for São Tomé - wherever that is :)

However, they seem to be marketing st towards being a 'street' domain name... interesting.

Personally I have:

4 .ca
3 .com
1 .net
1 .info
1 .biz

4 TLDs :cool:

1 - .com
2 - .net
1 - .org

-Does the cabbage patch mixed with the running man- :D

Gerrit, .su formely Soviet Union domain, but now its second russian domain the same as .ru but very expensive ($125/yr)

Originally posted by Gerrit

I don't know if .me.uk are good investments. .co.uk and .org.uk are more famous and very cheap as well at some places, so why taking .me.uk ? By the way, not many .co.uk registrars that also offer .me.uk

It's like .nnn.nl , .id.au and .name . For name domains I think .me.uk is as low in value as .nnn.nl or .id.au , if I want a personal domain I'll take the .com or eventually .name or .be (as a Belgian)


Gerrit,

You never know, he might have those personal domains (id.au / me.uk ) for a personal reason and not really caring about the resale value ;)

I for one like the idea of .id.au - was great since the .com.au and .net.au were taken by a company they didn't seem to be that quick to register the .id.au (which happens to be a personal site of mine now). :)

7 .coms
3 .nets
2 .us
1 .info

.com-500
.us-10

Loads of .co.uk's and .com's, a few .net's, .info's and even three .tks :D

.CN 5 1.67%
.CC 3 1.00%

Originally posted by Vladimir S.
Gerrit, .su formely Soviet Union domain, but now its second russian domain the same as .ru but very expensive ($125/yr)


Is .su still a real ccTLD (= recognised and protected by IANA), despite the fact that the Soviet Union is gone for over 10 years ?:confused:

I mean, Zaire was renamed Congo and very short after that .zr was gone and replaced by a new ccTLD.

Plus, why is .su more expensive than .ru, when the current country is named Russia ?? Makes no sense to me.

.st = looks like a strange deal to me. 35 $ a year + extra money for DNS use ?? Way too expensive for me.

It seems like the ST Registry is based in Stockholm. Another case of a small country selling its TLD to a foreign company (like .TK , .TV , .TO , .PN , ...)