Originally posted by snoopy
adventure.com sounds somewhat vague to me.

Ahhh... snoopy is starting to appreciate the meaning of internet addressing taxonomy... something which was in a royal mess before ICANN decided to introduce new gtlds. .COM this, .COM that .. sigh.

As the internet matures, so too hopefully, will people's repressed intelligence on what makes addressing sense.

Originally posted by mole
Ahhh... snoopy is starting to appreciate the meaning of internet addressing taxonomy... something which was in a royal mess before ICANN decided to introduce new gtlds. .COM this, .COM that .. sigh.

As the internet matures, so too hopefully, will people's repressed intelligence on what makes addressing sense.

I wasn't referring to the ext here, just that the keyword is less commercially focused than "camping" in my view, adventure is a very broad term. They are both still amazing domains though.

Originally posted by snoopy
It would be a better money maker than adventure I think and is a more focused term - adventure.com sounds somewhat vague to me.

I think what mole may be suggesting is that the TLD serves to bring focus and eliminate vagueness / ambiguities for a word that has great interest (or is itself ambigious) -- Which seems to be suggested by your statement. And I completely agree with.

hmm, I'm not sure how adding "info" makes adventure less vague as a term.

Originally posted by safesys
hmm, I'm not sure how adding "info" makes adventure less vague as a term.

I did this very quickly so I may well have screwed up --

US Overture results seem to suggest that "Adventure" searches do seem to occur most often (or majority) with respect to travel (which I had guessed even before looking); fishing, geographic locations, etc. If you were planning a trip would you be more inclined go to Adventure.com or Adventure.info? Personally, and suggestive of my own bias, I'd expect .info to provide me with far broader information about adventure in the travel context than .com as .com would probably be owned by a single company with limited (and probably self serving -- note Vivendi's ownership of Adventure.com) offerings.

Thus I'd not expect .info to be soley associated with,

ever quest online adventure (games)
six flag great adventure (theme park -- although I'd expect this to be a listing)
adventure racing (games ?)


Thus the TLD has the ability to parse out a subset of meanings.

I am of course assuming an "ideal" use of the .info TLD and reinforcement of this in many prominant SLD's. So there is something of an underlying prediction here.

Originally posted by Speculator
I respectfully disagree since (as I believe I've posted/disclosed before) ALL of my .INFO sales are definitely NOT "under 1%" of the .com prices; following is the list with sale prices:

Bibliography.info ($5200.00)
Bahai.info ($1200.00)
Compra.info ($1000.00)
LowerManhattan.info ($1500.00)
Electrochemistry.info ($1800.00)

One can easily see that none these sales are at "under 1%" of .com prices. In addition I've had several offers of more than $1K for different names none of which I believe would be more than (or even close to) $100K in its .com version. Just my $0.02 based on personal experience so far!!

Interesting that you should cite these names as examples, though, because the only one (to my knowledge) where the .com has recently changed hands-- Compra.com-- sold for $200K, so the .info actually was worth less than 1% of the .com.

I doubt that would be the case for the others, though.

And my pointing that out doesn't change the fact that these are great prices for .info's-- definitely higher than what the market usually sees.

~Matt

sedocouk why don't you show us a long list of sedo sales, so we can easily decide what price to ask for our names.

Yes, I would also appreciate such a list.

Ditto.

the term "adventure" is less targeted than "camping" no matter what extension you put behind it. The effect of adding ".info" is that the values falls to a very small fraction of the equivalent .com

$1K is a good offer, $5K would be better. But the chance is you'll sit on this for a long time if he doesn't buy. No matter who he's representing, when it comes time for the marketing department to use the domain, the people at Camping.com will be laughing all the way to the bank.

Originally posted by KingDon
$1K is a good offer, $5K would be better. But the chance is you'll sit on this for a long time if he doesn't buy.

Please read the post above in this very thread listing my .INFO sales with ALL being above $1K and NONE of these sold names being as valuable as Camping.info. BTW, this is one of the names for which I've already received multiple inquiries and offers since the LR-2 in 7/02!

"Just an aside, I had *NO IDEA* that SEDO takes a minimum $100 cut of all it's auctions. As a result I had no idea why everyone seemed to be upset with me when I placed intial $100 bids -- read: immediately canceled the bidding. Finally, and very frustrated, I contacted a seller outside of SEDO (since SEDO provides no way to communicate directly) and the seller explained the $100 minimum charge to me. End result was that this seller *DID* sell their name to me .... Just some food for thought regarding the benefits of communications ... "

haha. found that funny.

also... nobody knows or cares about .info in my opinion. The average person has never seen it. I have, but if I ask all the people who live in my house, they have no idea what I am talking about. There isn't any value if nobody knows that extension in my opinion.

Originally posted by kohashi
.. nobody knows or cares about .info in my opinion. The average person has never seen it. I have, but if I ask all the people who live in my house, they have no idea what I am talking about.

Wondering if NOBODY knows or cares about .info then how come there're already hundreds of thousands of .info sites up and running and why folks are buying and selling names in the aftermarket? (Now don't start comparisons with .com...)
Beyond that I don't wana be rude by commenting on people who live in your house!

shkip it.