Do you invest in buying .ORGs and .NETs?

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So, I see that the highest .ORG sale ever was poker.org for 1M, which seems kinda cheap to me.

Do you think .ORGs and .NETs will ever be as expensive as .COMs are? I mean, I see GoDaddy selling ridiculous sounding .COMs like AustrianRemedies.com for $2000 and up... when sometimes the .ORGs and/or .NETs of those same domains are available at reg fee.

Do you invest in buying .ORGs and .NETs on a regular basis when you find good ones? Do you think they will ever reach the popularity (and price!) of .COMs in the future?
 


I doubt that .ORGs and .NETs will ever be as popular as .COMs but it's hard to know what the future holds.
For me I always check if the .COM domain is available and if it isn't I check .ORGs and .Nets.
 
.nets seems to do better in serp than .org for whatever reason. I'd take .nets, and only .org on a name that i really want
 
I highly doubt that .org and .net are nearly as high rated as .com. Dot com domains are simply the best and most used domains on the web, even for certain geo targeted markets people start using more and more .com domains and prefer them to local extending.
 
Here is how I see them.
.COM - best option
.NET - Versatile for a variety of businesses (second best option)
.ORG - Great for legal / medical type businesses
 
From SEO point of view you can rank as well if not better with .net or .org if your domain is an exact match which is very possible because most long term kewords in .net domains are still available.
 
I have a few .orgs and .nets that stomp all over the .com in the serps. They seem as good or very close for Search engines. Not as much for value for selling.
 
I'm not sure about investment value but I have around 200 domains that are all being used for either sites or redirects and the .com's are significantly more popular than the .net's, even when I advertise them in the exact same places with all other factors being the same. I think the general public just prefers seeing a .com and will be hesitant to click or type in the link to a .net.

If that's the case and most potential leads prefer seeing a .com, I'd assume that in terms of investment value .com's would be the most valuable.

90% of my domains are ringtone or music related though so it's a very small sample. I remember my buddy saying he tried a .net for a weight loss campaign once and it performed like shit next to the exact same campaign on a .com.
 
I haven't had as much luck with .org but it's probably because 95% of my sites are .com. I'm sure if I had as many .org sites as I did .com that it'd all even out. I can't imagine Google giving a preference between them. Maybe .info's because of their spammy nature, but there's noting wrong with a .net or a .org.
 
I don't put a lot of thought into it but this is my formula I use when trying to grab up a nice keyword rich domain name that is potentially brandable that I can actually develop.

1) Get the .com if unavailable go to step 2.
2) Get the .net if unavailable go to step 3.
3) Get the .org if unavailable go to step 4.
4) Get the .ca if unavailable don't go into your office shooting people go into the office of the domainers down the road and start shooting people then move onto step 5.
5) Determine when the .com expires and go to step 6.
6) Just before the .com expires register it since you know the previous owners won't be renewing it unless they somehow survived your shooting rampage.

Might not be an exact method of my madness but pretty much try for .com, then try for .net, then try for .org, consider finding something else or settle on .ca (If your part of CIRA) and if all fails find something else.

EDIT: I would also agree with anyone who say's that a .com is easier to sell then a .net or a .org well maybe not easier but more profitable. This is considering the TLDs are the exact name and no site involved).
 
I started a .org a while ago to raise money for this girl in my community with leukemia. Made around $1000. Gave it to her, and she didn't die. It wasn't much--But hey, it's something. Right?
 
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