ccTLDInvestors.com Online Magazine Launches
Big congrats to my good friend Morgan Linton for the launch of ccTLDInvestors.com which will be a great new blog focused on investing and developing ccTLD domains. As someone who has developed and has invested in a few different ccTLDs I look forward to seeing what Morgan has in store and actually look forward to contributing (sorry for the delay in sending the bio Morgan!!!).
With the ccTLD domain market being an opportunity, and as such, a growth area for domainers this I expect this site to do quite well and generate a lot of great interest.
BTW, a quick note, Chef Patrick is running a contest at Name.com that allows you to grab .ME domains at a GREAT price and if you use his coupon code of chefpatrick you get entered into a contest, check out more about the Name.com and Chef Patrick promo.
Below is the press release:
IN SEARCH OF THE NEXT .COM: CCTLDINVESTORS.COM FOCUSES ON TAKING DOMAIN NAME INVESTMENTS GLOBAL
Online Magazine Targets Global Domain Name Market
LOS ANGELES, California – March 11, 2010 - Linton Investments LLC announced ccTLDInvestors.com today – an online magazine dedicated entirely to investing in ccTLDs. Country Code Top Level Domains (commonly called ccTLDs) are the extensions dedicated to a specific country online such as .co.uk (England), .ca (Canada), .in (India) and .me (Montenegro).“The market is there, we’ve already seen some huge sales this year, the problem is that there are very few resources for ccTLD Investors,” says Morgan Linton, the creator of the magazine.
The Domain Name Investing market has grown dramatically over the last few years, and with sales like Toys.com for 5.1 million dollars and Candy.com for 3.0 million dollars it is clear the market is hot. In 2009 ccTLD sales doubled making it the quickest growing segment in the Domain Investing space! With sales like Credit.fr for $851,875 and Free-SMS.de for $162,150 already this year, the ccTLD market has the potential to appreciate just like the .com, .net, and .org markets have over the last fifteen years – but at an even faster pace!
While there are ccTLD sales every week, .com continues to take the limelight in the Domain Investing world. “For some markets there is almost nowhere investors can look to find-out more information about a particular Country’s TLD,” says Linton who is passionate about giving equal focus to oftentimes overlooked countries and regions. “The idea is simple – more people around the world are using the Internet every day – in the United States .com is the focus – in Canada owning a brand means owning the corresponding .ca domain, in Germany it means owning the corresponding .de domain. ccTLDs give investors the chance to buy-into a market before it takes off!”
Markets like England’s .co.uk and Germany’s .de have already seen strong attention from investors and enjoyed excellent sale prices over the last few years. Other markets like .in and .mx are just starting to see some larger sales but have mostly stayed below the five-figure range.
Linton has put-together a team of industry experts for his magazine that will allow it to provide detailed insight into markets very few people have experience with. “Just think, at this very moment India already has more Internet users than the United States. In India, .com is not as strong as .co.in or .in but the market for buying and selling these domains has just started…just like .com did in the nineties!
ccTLDInvestors.com will be published weekly to start and gives readers the opportunity to interact directly with the writers through an online comment system making the magazine more accessible. Linton will continue to add more writers throughout the year to reach even more markets. “The idea is to make ccTLDInvestors.com the online source for information about ccTLDs – this is day one!”
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Linton Investments LLC was founded in 2007 as a Domain Name Investment company. Over the last two years the company has grown their portfolio to encompass over twenty TLDs spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia. With a strong focus on development, Linton Investments turns their domain names into search engine-optimized web properties that generate a consistent monthly income.
The company’s founder, Morgan Linton is also the author of the book – Domain Flipping: How To Profit From The Domain Name Boom as well as Producer of Domainvestors Television. Morgan runs a popular blog – MorganLinton.com where he discusses domain investing, monetization, SEO, and of course ccTLDs.
If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an appointment with Morgan Linton, please call 1-800-274-6440 or email Morgan@LintonInvestments.com.
They Just Don’t Care – Stop Thinking Like a Domainer
After my last blog post someone (anonymous of course) had submitted a comment asking a couple questions that I actually appreciated having the time to answer, although he/she must not of thought I answered fast enough but in reality I base my priorities on family and revenue so to be honest I do sometimes take awhile to respond to things that are not in direct relation to one of those. The person does not know our marketing and sales plan so I forgive them for the traffic question since there is no way for them to know the details of what we are doing and the packages we put together. Although I will say that we have had multiple customers already come to us to tell us that they are getting calls from people finding them online FOR THE FIRST TIME now that they are working with us.
But the more important thing that I want to hit on since I think it is important for us domainers to realize is that a small business owner in Arapaho, Nebraska (picked that out of nowhere) does not care that .TV is the cctld for Tuvalu or that .ME is the cctld for Montenegro, do you really think they are going to walk away from their cash register and search for Montenegro, no. Only domainers care.
We built our brand on Missouri.me, the businesses and communities we are working with appreciate the fact we are doing something for them and the advertisers only care that the traffic that our site gets is focused on consumers that are interested in their products or service. We bring them qualified, TARGETED traffic.
Now, understand, I believe in .COM so do not misunderstand the above comments, but I also know that with the right marketing efforts I can build a business on a solid cctld (like .ME).
I am sure many of you are ready to gripe now that I must be wrong, no way you are right, well I can say with absolute 100 percent confidence that there is actually one community that we have had such success with our efforts that we now get more traffic to their community portal than the newspaper site has. Think about that for a second...... I wish I could point out which one but for competitive reasons that would not make much sense would it:) There may be others that we have had that level of success but I have not checked on a community by community level yet.
Now to point out a could more sites that use cctlds that are from other countries/islands:
Do you think that either of them said, hmmmmm, people may not go to our site because its related to Tuvalu. Do you think that a cyclist watching Tour De France news thinks of that before watching the latest updates (as I do each day). Nope, they understood the branding potential of what they were doing.
Sorry to rant on this so much, but it is valuable to step back sometimes and think about how the people you are targeting think.
On a side note, I do not censor comments, but I will likely not let through any anonymous comments moving forward either positive or negative unless I see value in them. I use my name on everything I do so I feel people should either use their name or a user id people know them buy in the community.