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Old 04-28-2014, 01:41 PM  
BlackCrayon
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Originally Posted by HandballJim View Post
I am down from 3k to 175, hope to be under 125 next year...



I don't disagree with you, but the transition is already happening with search engines. I used to rank with domain keywords, now you?re lucky you rank with great content. Another words the little guy is no longer going to be able to compete with just SEO. Facebook is even pushing you to pay now for marketing since they are making it more difficult to find your page.

The .com is still going to be around, but you will see the other extensions rank better for certain words in time. The .xxx extension is now ranking well in google in which a year ago it was none existent.

I did put a pre-order in for 2 .fish extension domains, doubt I will win them.
i've been watching every new gtld release, seeing who is buying what and what is reserved and if its 2 letter, you've got no chance. also apparently the registries can see what is being pre-ordered and are looking through these lists to reserve even more 'premium' domains. i've gone through searching over 100 domains in each new tld and often times i am left with only a handful being either available or registered by a person and not being held as premium or on a collision or block list.
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