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The Power of
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Dot com

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are getting out of fashion



Birth of domain names


Dot Com
Dot com was introduced in 1985 `
as part of the original Domain Name System (DNS).
The main people behind the idea
were the American computer scientists
Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris.

The first domain was registered 15-03-1985
It took until 30-11-1987 to reach a benchmark
of 100 registered domain names.

Dot com was the default TLD
for Businesses from the start.

Other original TLDs are .net and .org

Today 160 million dot com domains are registered
Evey World famous brand uses .com

good .com domains
have significant value today



Country Code TLDs
Country code TLDs (ccTLDs)
appeared
with each county having
a two letter country code

Country codes are know to a national population
and to international people familiar with a country

but while some countries only use the country code
like .de for Germany
others use it in combination with .co or .com
.co.uk for the United Kingdom /co.nz for New Zealand
or .com.ar for Argentina or .com.br for Brazil

ccTLDs anchor the web geographically,
while .com became its global default.

Many Tourism sites use a ccTLD,
but the most performant ones
usualy was bot .com and a national counry code.

For International Tourist
.com if the extesion everybody recognizes



Thousands of new TLDs
New generic domains
.biz and .info were introduced in 2001
so that companies that missed .com
would have an alternative



Other niche TLDs were added
dedicated to tourism
like .travel (2006)
.voyage (2013)
.reise (2014)
.vacations (2014)

Today there are thousands
of generic new TLDs

These new TLDs are only used by
brands that missed the registration
of dot com.

Most internet users dont even understand
that a domain like london.travel
or paris.vacations
is a website

Some Tourist boards waste a lot of money
using similar unestablished TLDs


Most global tourism information sites
(especially those aimed at an international audience)
default to .com
because of its universal familiarity.




The raise of "Visit+destination.com"

The fitst Visit sites came alive in California,
the place where internet was born
They were adopted by the tourist board
of

22




When coming alive many tourist sites
adopted an institutional style

Before ~2005: Institutional era

Common patterns:

Why



2006–2012: Branding begins

Emerging patterns:

Why

2013–Present: Call-to-Action dominance

Strong growth of:

Examples launched or promoted during this era:

Why this pattern won

  1. Action-oriented (“visit” implies travel intent)

  2. Language-neutral (easy for non-native speakers)

  3. Marketing friendly

  4. Short, memorable

  5. Works globally across cultures


Why visitdestination.com Keeps Growing

1. Search behavior changed

Users increasingly search phrases like:

This directly reinforces the pattern.

2. Tourism boards think like brands now

Modern destination marketing organizations (DMOs):

visitdestination.com performs best across all of those.


Trust & authority transfer

Ironically:

So:

That perception didn’t exist 20 years ago — it does now.


Relative Decline of Other Patterns

Pattern Trend
visitdestination.com 📈 Strong growth
discoverdestination.com ➖ Stable
destinationtourism.com 📉 Declining
destination-tourism.com 📉 Strong decline
destinationinfo.com 📉 Declining
destination.travel
festination.vacations		 uncomprehensive
looks outdated



Yes. visitdestination.com has become significantly more popular over time, and it is now:





To create a Tourist Site
you can choose
in between many many
different versions of domain names



It makes sense to use a "Geo Domain",
a domain which includes the name of a location
because people will understand
what location the website is about.


You can choose a name in German,
the local language of the city:

BesucheBadGodesberg.com
ErlebeBadGodeberg.com
ErfahreBadGodesberg.com
MeinBadBodesberg.com
BadGodesbergTourismus.com
BadGodesbergTouristik.com

but a domain the local language
will only attract national visitors
International visitors
will not understand
and the domain
will not attract them.


In English
you can use
VisitBadGodesberg.com
DiscoverBadGodesberg.com
ExploreBadGodesberg.com
DestinationBadGodesberg.com
BadGodesbergTourism.com

Around the Globe there are
a few "Discover"
"Explore"
"Destination"
"Tourism"

but "Visit"
outshines every other domain format.
There are over a 1000 Visits
compared to a dozend "Discover"
or "Explore"

When someone sees
"Visit Bad Godesberg.com"

he will immediately
be attracted to the site
because he already knows
sites like
"VisitBritain.com"
"VisitDubai.com"
"VisitMorocco.com"

Visit will attract
the internet user


Which TLD
.com
.de
or someting else

In Germany many sites use .de
but what Germans don't realise
is that .de comes from Deutschland
(German word for Germany)
and it's not .ge for Germany

Many Internet users from outside Europe
don't understand what .de means
because they only know Germany or Allemania .

This is not the problem of
.fr for France
or .it for Italy

Besides looking more international,
.com is easier to understand







you can use

"Visit Project".

"Visit Domains" are like little jewels
that have the power
to add a lot of glamour
and international visibility
to a Tourist Information Site.

This website is currently in development status 2.
The price will get up
the more the development of the website advances
and the more other beautiful "Visit"
will get online.


Visit Bad Godesberg.com
is part of a global network
already connecting over 1.000 iconic Tourist sites.
Based in every country of the World
all these sites have in common
to use the same,
ultra simple domain format
starting with "Visit"
and ending with ".com".

The more the Visit Project advances
the more the world "Visit"
becomes part of every language.

The URL, internet address
is super easy to remember
for people from all different backgrounds.




Visit Geo Domains


Imagine You operate a "cafe" in Bad Godesberg.
Getting the iconic dot com domain
your cafe will turn into a hotspot
in the landscape of the city.

All You need to do is to make
"Visit Bad Godesberg.com" beautiful
and develop some creativity around your "cafe":

- photos and videos
- 3D images showing your place
- a drone taking sky views
- a webcam
- podcasts with your cafe guests
- instagram
- history of your place / street
- show some little beauties nearby
like an old tree that needs to be protected
and all the legends around it.

In no time
with some ideas
and even a relatively small budget
your "cafe" will become "the place to be" !!!

Everybody that comes across
Visit Bad Godesberg.com
will want to come by.
People will also
order online souvenir products
like t-shirts or mugs of the "cafe"
you can design in the meantime .

This is the power of internet,
a nice website
connected to a spectacular domain name.
And to be "spectacular"
it needs to be dot com,
because dot com
is the code of the inventors of the web.

The perfect dot com domain
is one of several keys for a sucess story.
If there is no dot com
or
if-your-domain-is-poor-an-full-of-hyphens.xx
the key will not open any door.



Besides developping your own business
people all over the city will love You
because your "VisitHamm.com"
will add glamour and style to your city,
enhance it's reputation
and add international visibility.

The aquisition of the domain name
will turn into the best investment
you have ever made for your business.

The doman "VisitHamm.com"
will be something unique



The "Visit" Project
roots in the fact
that we had the chance
to cross the path
of several fascinating people
that were / are
tech / fashion pioneers
and / or founders
of some world famous brands.

They all showed us that
a touch of Glamour
is the most important thing you need
to start a success story.

The "Visit Project" started
in an avant-garde Internet Cafe
in Paris,
World Capital of Fashion.

more about the story ...




To get some inspiration
for a cool "Visit" site
check out
Global Visit List.com

This curated list
shows many many Visit Sites
that are well done.
.