Alphabet Domains
Online Marketing Class With .Sports
November 18, 2015
On the heels of the 2015 Cy Young Awards and with new records and announcements of special awards in sports … the new gTLD .sports will be very popular. World Series excitement and CY Young Awards all combine to generate more and more interest in .Sports.
Pre-Registrations are being taken for .Sports by Registrars including instra.com. Using Instra dot com is easy to Pre-Register your own .Sports domains. When you get to the home
page click New gTLDs at the top. Drop down menu displays “Pre-Registration” click and enter your selection. Then click “Pre-Register” (Pre-Registration is Free) to setup an account and proceed to Checkout … You will be entered into the process.
Pre-Registration does not guarantee you will have the domain of your choice. It does put you in the running. (@DomainOwners @ShoutOutxyz) Instra dot com will keep you informed of all developments with the new .Sports gTLD as it comes online.
The only sure guarantee you have the .Sports domain is when they inform you to pay the cost of registration and you get a confirmation it’s in your account. You are in reality getting on a waiting list early. With so many people learning about the .Sports extension, there will be a crowd waiting.
Consider the individuals or groups for .sports …
If you are an athlete, parent of an athlete, love sports, want your own ____.Sports domain or any other, pre-register so you’ll be informed.
This .Sports will be a #WINNER with #sports of every kind including sports #bars …
Look at the interest in #UFC193 with @_HOLLYHOLM and @RondaRousey and the many UFC sports fans.
Most Pros will end up with their own .Sports domain. We can see it now … Mayweather dot sports, Rousey dot sports HollyHolm dot sports and so on.
Even High School Football will want their own .Sports domains. .Sports domains are one of a kind, so the rush will be on for the same domain name maybe the you like.
Knowing .Sport is going to e so popular, “What should I do now?”, you might ask. The 1st thing we did was make a list of the .Sports domains we want or at least try to get.
Serious thought can be given to the exact .Sports domain names you desire and use this advance notice to planning ahead and pre-register your list. With your .Sports domain list in hand … Go to your favorite Registrar and Pre-Register your list. The Registrar will send you a Confirmation Email with the .Sports domains you Pre-Registered.
Be sure to double check your email when setting up the account, if it’s your 1st time because this email will receive all .Sports messages. Remember: You can always go back into your account and add additional .Sports domains to the Pre-Register list.
In the years to come .Sports will be the Goto home for almost all sports related events, professionals sports teams even youth sports. If .Sports was online now, you would see Lebron dot sports, Ali dot sports, Jordan dot sports, Holm dot sports and NewYork dot sports as active websites.
Children in .Sports will have their own .Sports domains (Their First name, First and Last name, both in .Sports).
In business selling athletic wear or want to later? Get your business dot .Sports domain.
In business selling athletic footwear or want to later? Get your business dot .Sports domain.
In business selling t-shirts or want to later? Get your business dot .Sports domain.
In business selling food as a sporting event vendor or want to later? Get your business dot .Sports domain.
In business near a sports venue or want to later? Get your business dot .Sports domain.
In business selling game tickets or want to later? Get your business dot .Sports domain.
In business selling athletic related jewelry or want to later? Get your business dot .Sports domain.
In the business of using social media for sports or want to later? Get your business dot .Sports domain.
In business networking with athletics or want to later? Get your business dot .Sports domain.
In business sports promoter or want to later? Get your business dot .Sports domain.
In business as an attorney helping any kind of sports activity or want to later? Get your
business dot .Sports domain.
In business of SportMedicine.science or want to later? Get your business dot .Sports domain.
In business as the Goto person to help develop youth sports or want to later? Get your business dot .Sports domain.
In the business of being a soccer mom or want to later? Get your business dot .Sports domain.
In business as a working dad or want to later? Get your business dot .Sports domain.
What ever you do related to sports or sports marketing be sure to get your .Sports domains.
To be Clear, not all .Sports domains have to be Pre-Registerd in order to secure it …if it’s an in-demand domain .. please pre-register.
Question just in: If I already have a sports related website, should I get a .Sports domain?
Answer, absolutely, that helps your brand … when you have exact match multiple domains in your portfolio.
There are Ten Best Reasons we gave to have premium domains. You can find those ten reasons here. http://bit.ly/1QkRdEp
There are many more reasons to secure domains related to ones business and they can be found here. http://bit.ly/1PLshoc
Question just in: Should I buy my favorite team dot .Sports domain or my children’s teams domains?
Answer: Buying the domain of an established business entity can be problematic. These two posts explains why buying someone’s business domain can be a problem.
http://bit.ly/21477a6 and http://bit.ly/1POPINv
To be clear: Buying Generic domains can be advantageous… Buying domains for your own business is most certainly advantageous ,,, in fact these domains are your online or offline brand, protect it.
When an extension comes out you can make a decision as to whether or not to secure this domain. When domain extensions come out related directly to your business, it would be good to have a domain on that platform.
Question: “Do I have to have a website put on this new domain?”
That is a very good question. First, we have to inform you that we are not here saying what you should or should not do. You have to decide what is best for your business.
You have to decide what it good for your business or circumstances…in all matters. Neither we nor anyone else can tell you what to do. Everyone’s circumstances are unique and calls for unique approaches to handling the business at hand.
Additionally, none of the companies, businesses, people, entities or ideas related are compensating @alphabetdomains for mentioning them in our posts.
Special Notice to our audience: This is a live tweet session of Alphabet Domains Online Marketing Class held every week and tweeted live.
Tonight we are talking about the new gTLD .Sports coming out soon. Now the Question: “Do I have to have a website put on this new (.Sports) domain?”
Answer: You have many options once you have the domain in your account. Let us go over what some of the options are and how to begin the process.
First: You can have a website placed on this new .Sports domain. This new site could have it’s advantages. This site could, for example, promote a different aspect of your sports related business.
For example, we have been informed that a major retailer will install something that resembles a Sports Bar in the front of select stores. With TVs and alcoholic drinks and so on to boost same store sales … we want mention the store until it is official and public (soon).
Their brand is known to everyone already. However, if they wanted to do so…they could secure a .Sports domain (theirstores .Sports). They could promote just the in-house sports bar aside from the other retail business being conducted … on this new website.
So to be clear, if you promote a different aspect of your business and at it’s core is unique … then a new site could be advantageous.
Another option would be to use the new .Sports domain to promote special sports related activities. What are sports related activities? If your business sold sports jerseys, that’s all about clothes, right.
When you slow season comes around as it often happens every year … your new .Sports domain could create something unique like events.
For example, there are events going on nationwide, everywhere… Suppose you created and on-the-road team to sell your jerseys on-location. You’re in Charlotte NC, there is the interstate coming through going north and south. There are events starting in February up and down the East coast. From to NYC to Miami there are events and festivals for most of the year. You could have the domain yourbusiness dot sports. This would be your on the road traveling t-shirt and jersey business from event to event.
You can hand out flyer cards promoting your store back in Charlotte. Give event discounts of 10% off for the event and maybe a promo code if they order online … or over the phone when calling the store or if the order from you social media sites.
Eventually your brand would become recognized nationally and your brand will become a fixture at these events or festivals. To learn more, please take a minute and read this post. http://bit.ly/1PLshoc
Keep this in mind …
Everything posted or implied is to taken as For Entertainment Purposes Only … or as industry related information, news and not legal advice. As to whether you should or should not put a website on the new .Sport domain, that would be your decision to make … there are options.
Those two sites, your main dot site and your new dot sports site will propel you into the stratosphere of the jersey business .. read the article to see why.
Actually, the same concepts could be applied to any business with some adjustments here and there depending on the type of business.
Ok, another option would be to simply re-direct the domain to your main site until you determine what to do with it … it’s your decision.
Yes, let me give you several examples of what a redirect domain is and how it works Click on this link http://AlphabetBlog.top and see what happens.
Notice these are two different domains that serve a specific purpose … to redirect traffic to where you want them to go.
So your new .Sports domain (or any domain) can do the exact same thing. Direct traffic to the destination of your choice … as you want.
Some very important factors to consider because there is a massive Paradigm shift in 21st century business taking place all around us.
What is a Paradigm shift? It’s a “series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions” and in those revolutions “one conceptual world view to replaced by another”. Think of a Paradigm Shift as a change from one way of thinking to another. A Paradigm Shift involves a change of how to do business or ways to do business from one way of thinking to another way of thinking.
A Paradigm Shift is a revolution in thoughts resulting in actions that may be foreign to what we are use to doing. This Paradigm Shift is happening in business everywhere from brick and mortar to click and order, and we all have to understand this.
Understanding this Paradigm Shift from the way we use to do business to another way to do business will become a positive change in how you promote your business or for any business. Remember the retailer putting a sports bar. Learn about another example of this by reading this post. http://bit.ly/1PLshoc
Understanding this Paradigm Shift will cause you to make changes in the way you do things and how you do business. Your Brand will require you to incorporate new concepts in your business so your brand will not just be know locally but internationally.
Think of it like this … When a child in Sydney, London or Manila hears your business name, you want them to know who you are and grow up recognizing your brand an perhaps find ways to do business with you.
How are you going to accomplish that?
By shifting your approach and executing new concepts your brand will become a global enterprise. In our next Alphabet Domains Online Marketing Class we will explore how new concepts will grow your brand into a global enterprise and ways to implement those concepts.
If you have questions you would like covered during this live online event just Direct Message us.
Date and Time …
Alphabet Domains Online Marketing Class will be held on Monday, November 23, 2015 @ 7pm (PST) Time in Los Angeles, CA and tweeted live online at @AlphabetDomains.
