{"id":107,"date":"2010-02-03T15:10:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.above.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2013-10-17T20:55:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T09:55:11","slug":"watch-your-tlds-when-buying-domains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.above.com\/blog\/watch-your-tlds-when-buying-domains","title":{"rendered":"Watch your TLD’s when buying domains"},"content":{"rendered":"

New TLD<\/a>‘s are continually being added and it can be easy to get caught up in these. <\/p>\n

A generic name, such as ‘shoes.com’ can prove to be a good investment but a domain of another TLD<\/a>, such as shoes.do or shoes.dm, will generally have a much lower value.<\/p>\n

There are ways to benefit from ccTLD<\/a>‘s and gTLD<\/a>‘s, although this can prove to be very difficult. <\/p>\n


\nTLD<\/a>‘s such as .com, .net and even .info are valuable. Certain ccTLD<\/a>‘s have been successful such as .us and .fr; Credit.fr<\/a> sold for USD$851,875 at the beginning of 2010.  <\/p>\n

Filling your portfolio with generic domains of a brand new TLD <\/a>is generally not a smart move, unless you have done your research or believe the new TLD<\/a> will take off. And, with the flood of different TLD<\/a>‘s on the market, the likelihood of this is slim.<\/p>\n

Columbia has announced that the ccTLD<\/a> .co will be released in the beginning of 2010; this is an interesting ccTLD<\/a> as .co is a typo for .com domains, when users forget the ‘m’. <\/p>\n

.co will have a different value than most ccTLD<\/a>‘s especially for:<\/p>\n