Comments on: How Many Registrations Can .Vegas Expect?

By: TAG

TAG — Sat, 21 May 2011 22:15:15 +0000

First year 50k my guess

By: Domain Name Wire » News » Fight Breaks Out Over .Vegas Top Level Domain Name - The Domain Industry's News Source

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:16:00 +0000

[...] to launch and operate a .vegas top level domain name when (if) ICANN approves new TLDs. It has an optimistic view on how much money it can bring in to the [...]

By: Tan Tran

Tan Tran — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:24:09 +0000

I just got back from Vegas. I have to tell you this city is a marvel on a grander scale then anything that people normally can imagine.

They like to THINK BIG.

I wouldn’t throw it by them to figure out a way to get 500,000k registrations.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:30:11 +0000

what a waste of time and money. it will flop. domains are still foreign to a lot of people. just go into borders or barnes n noble. how many books about domains are there? zero.

.com is king

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:29:26 +0000

Maybe the biz opp for .vegas is to have a hefty price tag on sunrise period, and then tell all of the local casinos “you have to get yourcasino.vegas during sunrise for $$$”

By: Dutch Boyd

Dutch Boyd — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:23:07 +0000

Maybe I’m in the minority here… but I don’t think they could reach those numbers if they were GIVING them away for free, let alone selling them.

I’m going to eduguesstimate(tm) that there are only about 32,000 dotCom domain names with the word “Vegas” in it. I think dotVegas could probably sell about 1% of that number in the first year… so 320 dotVegas domain registrations would be my estimate.

If they give them away for free kind of like dotMP is doing, I could see the extension taking off for locals and maybe getting your 10,000 estimate…

But 300k-500k registrations is just laughable. Thanks for bringing this to our attention… plan on contacting some of my city counsel members.

By: ojohn

ojohn — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:23:28 +0000

“There are certainly some cities that could get gamed, notably NYC.”

@Andrew – It seems that ICANN has put multiple levels of safeguards in place to prevent the City TLDs from being gamed by those who don’t have a legitimate interest in the names, but if other companies that have been using the N Y C abbreviation apply for .NYC it doesn’t mean that they are gaming the City name, some of them probably have legitimate interest in this name and they might be able to get .NYC if New York City does not participate in the first round. So I don’t think this is as much about worrying about those who might want to game this process as it is about being able to compete with all those other entities that have a legitimate interest in the same name. That’s why it’s important to participate in the first round which I believe is going to require submitting an expression of interest. (just my opinion)