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Forget China, Verisign is now seeing most of its domain sales weakness coming from the US. The company revealed in its quarterly earnings call last week that .com and .net were down by a combined 1.1 million names in the third quarter, and 850,000 of those losses were from American registrars. CEO Jim Bidzos told...

Americans are deserting .com | Domain Incite - News, Analysis & Opinion
 
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Yes, because .com price crossed the psychological barrier in USD but that effect was not present in other currencies. (And while the price hike happened in September, it was announced much earlier and large holders adjusted their portfolios and acquisition plans accordingly.)
 
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It makes sense, there are more alternative extensions and most companies will spend extra to acquire a premium .com over hand-registering available domains.
 
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The headline is kind of misleading in my view.

It's not like hordes of end users are moving from their .COM to .somecrap.

It could read something like - ".COM price increases lead to more crap domains dropping".

There are around 160 million .COM regs. There are not really that many quality combos worth owning.

Don't worry though, Verisign will still make plenty of money via their sweetheart no-bid contract with ICANN to operate the registry.

Brad
 
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Sensationalism at its best.
 
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.com zone growth

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Based on the topic title, I have understand that Americans migrate from (.com) to (.us), do I get it right or wrong?
 
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Based on the topic title, I have understand that Americans migrate from (.com) to (.us), do I get it right or wrong?
I have sold many .US domains, but I doubt many end users are moving to it from .COM.

These are not end users dropping domains. They are going to be domain investors, and others who are carrying largely worthless domains. At some point, with rising prices, you cut the cord.

Brad
 
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You can see .COM registrations kind of took off a bit during peak COVID, then dropped over time.

That has been the case with a lot of "investments" from sports cards to NFTs.

Brad
 
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