One TLD is flying under the radar but generating a ton of revenue.
Today we talk about one of the biggest new top level domain name success stories, and I’m willing to bet you’ve never heard about this top level domain before. Ken Hansen will tell you about a domain that has generated a staggering amount of income despite appearing far down the traditional new TLD leaderboards. Ken also discusses his 15+ year in the domain business including .biz and .co.com.
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Dot Advice says
Thanks Andrew, Ken. Very very interesting . New TLD Registry owners should take note !
John says
Interesting, never heard of Ken Hansen before.
And Mr. Hansen, please convey my thanks to your former employer Neustar for doing everything it can all these years since 2002 to make sure .US is an obscure failure that the American public still scarcely knows even exists, and cares even less. Too bad GoDaddy didn’t get it instead when there was talk of that…
Jeff Schneider says
Hello Andrew,
All New TLDs have a huge disadvantage. Its called Google Ad Sense Marketing.
You will find that 99% of all Google Ad Marketing Agencies are Clueless about the superior Marketing Strategies that All .COM Profit Centers embody. They got it wrong thirty years ago and continue their flawed Marketing Strategies to this day.
They still don’t get that they lose their clients valuable Rustled Traffic within the Google Traffic Rustling Maze. Actually losing as much Traffic as they gain in the Google Ad System. Utterly Amazing to us that this is still being used by most Uneducated Online Advertising Agencies.
If their Online website owners knew the truth of the matter, they would be Furious.
There are two recipes for Online Business Failures:
1. NOT owning a .COM Profit Center
2. Using Google Adsense Marketing
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger) Former ( Rockefeller I.B.E.C. Marketing Analyst/Strategist) (Licensed C.B.O.E. Commodity Hedge Strategist) ( Domain Master http://WWW.UseBiz.com
YamadaMedia says
Yes, Neustar needs to market .US domains. Seriously what have they done?
If they bought a bunch of marketing software they can’t use that for domains?
Either that or the Department of Commerce needs to find a new registry. Perhaps Ted Cruz would advocate for it? 🙂
John says
Right on, this guy is hopeless