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yeah guys, come on...
don't let a little thing like
*check notes*
end-user adoption stop you from investing in a TLD!
As .si continues to get stronger, the people who didn’t take a chance will post about lack of end user adoption or such like.
It’s perfectly natural, and to be fair , they have to protect their interests. It won’t make much difference.
They could be right of course . But use your own judgement , based on the full picture of what you see , including their posts . It’s all relevant
No need for blocking and name calling .
It’s all part of the game of course .
Listen to your brain, not your heartstrings .
super interesting numbers, and the thing I keep thinking about:
.AI worked because it became accepted industry use and THEN domain investors followed.
Claude .ai was just hand registered in 2018 or something. That cannot happen with .si, all the worthwhile names, ALL of them are held mostly by domain investors.
You're a startup, you have to choose between a shitty .si and a shitty .com, which one are you picking?
In a non-.com space where all the good brands are held with dopey moonshot pricing, that's a space that isn't going to hit critical mass and THAT is what's going to hold .SI back.
That and how cool it is to be told what defines your industry by an executive order lol
YES SIR!
I checked the nameservers of 370,000 single English dictionary words on the .si tld. Here are some stats:
With working nameservers - 46,359
Domain investor, confirmed - 21,704 (46.8%)
Domain investor, likely - 10,364 (22.4%)
Brand protection firms - 507
Registrar parked - 4391
Real hosting - 8493
That means almost 70% of .si single word domain names are very likely investor held or use a for sale lander. That is a huge number, compared to roughly an estimated 8-9% in .com that has a for sale lander, or around 10% for .ai, although almost half of all .ai domains are not actually in use.
just re-upping this in case you missed it.
got a few conversations going.
DR 74
3.5k - 4.5k daily traffic (all sources)
older software-related brand, .com
robust AI overview/LLM mentions
diverse traffic sources:
yo if you're in iGaming (or whatever) and you're looking to acquire a juiced-up, live, not-expired full website WITH TRAFFIC in the software space AND you can pay for quality, DM me. or better yet write me an email sean @ ranks (.com obviously).
i got the hookup...
more great words by me, SEO domain expert Sean Markey, in the latest @DomainNameWire post on August's NameJet/SnapNames auctions:
ChatGPT .com wasn't even registered until Nov 30th, 2022
Think how many bad domains you bought while ChatGPT was still available.
Think about the payday if you'd've thought to register it in 2020...
Dang.
