Deltrus

It seems like there is a cloud frenzy at the moment with people registering all sorts of domain names to jump onto the cloud bandwagon.

Is there a real market for this or are people going to be dropping them like flies in a couple of years when people realise that every website in existence is already on the cloud?

I'm guilty too as I regged a few cloud 'brandables' myself but upon reflection I'm thinking it was probably just a waste. The ones with good exacts have already gone but there are plenty of (.co.uk) FTR domains available which could be used as a brand, an industry news/reviews site or forum etc.

What do others think. Is this just a passing fad, like the second coming of 3D, or is there is there a future in all things cloud?

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slater9000

Hope it lasts, I reg'd a load too, what did you get?

I think it you look at the concept behind cloud/SaaS I think it will be around for some time yet

Andy

Deltrus

I regged the following amongst a few others:

cloudwiki .co .uk
cloudtoolkit .co .uk
cloudappmaker .co .uk

I can post a list of FTR cloud (.co.uk) domains that I found available if anyone is interested. Some okay but some seem a bit rubbish. If the cloud-mania continues though there could be value in some of them.

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sdsinc

There is always a frenzy of some sort in domaining.
Same with with 3D etc.

People handreg longtail domains that are just bad. Nobody wants them. Not now, not in the future.
The best domains were registered a long time ago. It doesn't matter whether cloud is a fad. Bad domains are bad domains.
I think people are following like sheep.

accelerator

I have regged just one, cloudgamer.co.uk. I'll probably leave it at that for now.

Rgds

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namestrands

I regged 0

Edwin

It's a fad. Just like 3D is/was. You need to go after the top half-dozen names in the niche or forget it completely.

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aZooZa

I hand regged cloudservice.co.uk a few years back, and I'm quite happy with that, or did I buy it? I'm not sure. Anyway, the 'cloud' is certainly here to stay; whether it's worth registering any longtails is very doubtful IMO.

bensd

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davedevelopment

I have two, both nice brandable types, though I'm not sure if they'll come off, but not going to lose sleep over my £12.

The cloud used to just be a term for the internet, now it's become a term for a practice of putting assets somewhere on the internet, rather than in your office? That practice that isn't going anywhere, so as long as the name sticks, we'll be using it for a while yet.

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