The Rise of Single Word Country Code Domain Names - Look Out dot Com

The rest of the world (Asia, Africa, South America) is so late to the domain name party, there are no great single word domain names left in any of the general TLDs of Biz, Com, Info, Name, Net or Org.

Most of these domain names are parked and not being used for custom developed websites, because the owners are making money off type-in traffic. For example, sugar.com, sugar.net and sugar.org are undeveloped websites. The owners figure they will be able to sell the single word domain names for big dollars one day.

There are a lot of smart people doing business all over the world and they want great domain names. They are finding the last of the great single word domain names in the country code TLDs and they are using these domain names for their websites.

This is causing a funny thing to happen. The single word country code TLDs are beginning to be more relevant than the general TLDs, since the country code TLDs are being used.

Com websites have been around for more than a decade, so there are a lot more of them, but as time goes on, more and more country code domain name websites will appear and the public will find them as acceptable as any other.

Here are a list of some I came across the other day:

313.bz - cool German photographer
ajax.bz - technology blog
bazi.bz - Singapore distributor of high tech products
bma.bz - Dubai large retailer
cabel.name - blog
ccaa.bz - Canadian Consulting Agrologists Association
grant.robinson.name - designer
ick.bz - Ghost Recon game site
last.fm - bought by CBS for $200M+
linc.bz - US advertising firm
moving.bz - Moving general information and directory
plan.bz - London product marketing company
punk.bz - Caustic Truths digital magazine
starz.bz - Los Angeles ecommerce and e-merchandising for celebraties
taa.bz - Triad Apartment Association for North Carolina
worldlinks.bz - Bahrain international investment consulting

By Andrew Weitzen on July 7, 2007

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