DJChuang.com did a small article on companies actively using a .clothing domain. They also noted what the sites used to be, A couple redirect to the .com as expected. LocalUnderdog.clothing which used to use LocalUnderdog.com does not even have the .com pointing it just does not resolve.
One, CountryWear.clothing is noted as used to be HorseandHoof.eu, now there are no redirects, both sites are the same, they say they are redirecting horseandhoof but that is not happening yet.
They used a quote from TalkBusinessMagazine.co.uk
Karl Brown, founder of Horse and Hoof, www.countrywear.clothing, said: ‘Our website address previously was www.horseandhoof.eu. Although a great name it wasn’t quite what we were looking for, and so as soon as I saw the new top level domains available I knew a .CLOTHING domain would be far more beneficial for us. I wanted something more appropriate, so that when customers searched for related terms our web address would come up immediately. That’s why I chose COUNTRYWEAR.CLOTHING and I was so pleased when we got it – I immediately redirected the domain! It supports our aim to simplify our customers online shopping experiences.”
BlackSwan.clothing was BlackSwanClothing.com, if you go to the .com it shows the same home page but the rest of the navigation when clicked upon takes you to .clothing pages.
Astra.clothing was astraclothing.com and they actually redirect the .com to the .clothing.
These are the types of registrations and uses those selling new extensions are hoping for, the question is will there be enough of this activity to make the strings a viable business, year in and year out ?
http://www.horseandhoof.eu = Meaningless
Countrywear.clothing = Better
CountrywearClothing.com = Best? (but this was already owned by another UK firm, Leslies of Luton)
BullS from BULLS INC did an article that says all websites are BS and dot com is KING
Why do you always pick articles from some unknown bloggers and knows shit. Many times you do that to get people piss off….
What didn’t the blogger know ? this was not an editorial, he compiled a list of active websites using .clothing. So author knowledge or how well known he is means nothing. We did not even need to give the blog credit and just posted a list of .clothing sites up and developed.
Two weeks in and established businesses are moving off of .com and onto new G’s. These sites look great. Google and Amazon will be in the mix in a few months.
“CLOTHING” and how many in a not English speaking country will spell it correctly.
KLOTHING
KLOTING
KLOTHINK
CLOTING
CLOTHINK
and a hundred more variations.
horseandhoof.eu isn’t “meaningless” — it’s the name of the company. It’s what the company’s customers know.
Which to my mind, makes that one the weird example here. Brown decided his company’s name isn’t good enough for a domain name and went with something more generic? That’s not better branding, that’s contradictory branding. I think that guy is getting bad advice from somebody.
Maybe what we’ll see is that businesses will simply make the domain the brand. Horse and Hoof co. now simply becomes ‘CountryWear.Clothing’ It’s both a brand, and a domain name.
Makes sense in a virtual economy.
The ONLY winners with these gltds are going to be the dot com owners who have .gTLD registered as the gTLD.com
that all. No one else. People dont know what .clothing is and will they will type in
.gTLD.com
Ask 10 people to go to LocalUnderdog.clothing and watch 9 of them (perhaps 10) type in LocalUnderdog.clothing.com
Go ahead…..
Sounds like he’s leaving his new websites fate in the hands of google.
As far as the gtld itself; the clothing market is big…it might work. But I see people typing in .clothes by mistake, .clothing.com out of habit like others have mentioned. It still limits you in a major way. Good luck to them tho.
I read on here or Sherpa that Page bought a single letter .clothing name. Maybe he’ll chime in.
…basically a good marketing move on Mr Karl Brown’s part and I am sure many other endusers are going to see the advantages of having keywords that fit their product or service that they would never be able to afford in the dot com if it were available.
I don’t see too much confusion as time passes and today’s visitors are well aware of different extensions and are attached to the website that will benefit them, not the extension.. They are looking for what they want and will find it.
That being said, the dot com still remains quite strong but is facing the reality that the cyberspace mall will have increased competition as endusers open up shop and compete now that the best keywords that fits their company are available for them, in an extension that describes what they are.
I think enough will survive to benefit the smaller business entrepreneurs and encourage free market sales that were denied them because of lack of keyword(s) at the left of the dot…
Now Trending..
2 websites (out of Millions) redirecting a DOT COM to a New gTLD
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