A domain investor with a large dot .Company portfolio claims that NamesCon Europe 2019 was an unsuccessful domain conference.
How did he come up to this conclusion?
Although he wasn’t attending the conference, he submitted a number of dot .Company domains to be included in the auction. None of these domains were accepted.
The Qatari domainer submitted almost 100 .Company domains to be included in the NameJet managed auction, in particular:
B.Company
M.Company
Q.Company
V.Company
S.Company
L.Company
Y.Company
I.company
F.company
O.company
H.company
W.company
Z.Company
TV.company
EV.company
Energy.Company
Car.company
Motor.company
Coffee.company
Tea.company
Cigar.Company
Telecom.Company
Mail.Company
Computer.Company
System.Company
Design.Company
Investor.Company
Phone.company
Business.Company
Commercial.Company
Media.Company
Hospitality.Company
Pharmaceutical.Company
Registrar.Company
Registry.Company
Taxi.Company
Perfume.Company
Watch.Company
Aircraft.Company
Airline.Company
Helicopter.Company
Italian.Company
Energy.Company
audio.company
American.Company
Japanese.Company
Korean.Company
Canadian.Company
Saudi.Company
Emirates.Company
Indian.Company
Taiwanese.Company
French.Company
Russian.Company
Billionaire.Company
Ad.Company
General.Company
Automotive.company
Banking.Company
Tobacco.Company
Smartphone.Company
Email.Company
VirtualReality.Company
Broker.Company
Support.Company
House.Company
Estate.Company
Cement.Company
Logistic.Company
Glasses.Company
Watch.Company
Natural.Company
Organic.Company
Panda.Company
Moose.Company
Duck.Company
Bear.Company
Koala.Company
Eagle.Company
Owl.Company
Poultry.Company
Chicken.Company
Beverage.Company
Dairy.Company
Fish.Company
Juice.Company
Egg.Company
Grain.Company
Candy.Company
Cereal.Company
Rice.Company
Tuna.Company
Gum.Company
Noodle.Company
He believes that these domains are worth thousands of dollars a piece.
In our opinion, it’s a waste of money to register generic keywords with a “Company” extension, because a company’s brand and name are specific. Unless your corporate name includes the word “Company” of course.
Dot .Company is a Donuts new gTLD, and there are currently 64,000 domains in the .Company zonefile.
This hilarious discussion thread is now active on NamePros.
I don’t believe it’s useless to own a generic keyword followed by .company. Actually some of Almarri’s names are very great names and I believe they will do very well in the future. I’m not sure what happened with the whole thread though or how the conclusion was came to by him that the conference was unsuccessful as I haven’t been following it, but some of his names like Coffee.company, Energy.company and his one letter .company names are excellent names. Google has been utilizing X.company for over two years and it looks like it makes perfect sense to me. If you are an Energy.company owning that generic term would be extremely valuable. Look up the AdWords volume for it. There is some value there. It’s just a matter of opinion what extensions people like. I would not call NamesCon Europe unsuccessful though just because it didn’t have these names in it.
I’m looking forward to NamesCon Global 2020 in Austin. Hope to see you there Theo.
Excellent names are worth
Jason – These names are not only garbage, they are burning a hole in the guy’s pocket – some at premium prices. No, NamesCon Europe was not unsuccessful, it’s just that a guy with an agenda and shitty domains can’t understand the latter, so he attacked the conference’s organizers.