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What do you think? Based on Rick's tweets, I believe he is referring to new gTLDs.
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I'm as likely to allow that as I am to buy a self-driving car.
new gtlds can still work. The owners just have to be patient. People continue to talk about .xyz giving away domain names for free but domains were free for about 10 years. Twitter is free, facebook is free. It will just take time. The only problem is that they owners of the new gtlds may not have the time.
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What do you think? Based on Rick's tweets, I believe he is referring to new gTLDs.
the registries fold
newI just love the "wet eared domainer" comment. What's that about?
I'm relatively new .. but I'm getting reeeeaaaally tired of the all or nothing debates on every aspect of the new gTLD's .. seriously .. there are so many factors and shades of grey that everybody conveniently leaves out to justify their point of view.
Yes they can be some great use of them ..
.. but (IMO) yes most domainers don't seem to understand what works and what doesn't
Yes most of them are garbage ..
.. but yes some of them do have their rightful place on the Internet and are useful
Yes there was a good argument to add new TLD's
.. but yes they added too many and they were also implemented quite sloppily.
If you're buying 10 cent domains then unless you go there in the first 3 minutes it's very likely not worth it ..
.. if you're buying premiums that cost $1000's per year then it's also likely not worth it ..
.. if you find a cool span.thedot domain for $10-20 per year with an initial acquisition cost a fraction the cost of the equivalent .com then there's a chance you could be doing it right and might make a little $$ in the long term.
At the end of the day there are some fantastic nTLD domains ..
.. but most of them are garbage (seems I already said that .. lol)
So yes .. there are aspects of them that are inovative ...
.. and yes .. there are some aspects of them that are not!
ANYBODY who blanket judges and chooses one side or the other is missing out both potential losses and on potential opportunity.
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Yes.has anybody studied the real data?
Alexa is rubbish as a metric.I am working on something right now that will speak for itself as far as ranked websites in the top 1/2 million.
Quantcast, what is your experience with them?Yes.
Alexa is rubbish as a metric.
Regards...jmcc
The top sites in any TLD do not matter. It is the volume and rate of development of small sites. Quantcast, from memory, relies on Adwords and beacons. If a site doesn't have Adsense or a Quantcast analytics beacon, it may be invisible.Quantcast, what is your experience with them?
Yep but how many of them realise that about 2.5 million .COM domains drop every month? Most of the attention from domainers is focused on the upcoming .XYZ drops and that's going to be in the region of 3 million domains just for June 2016 registrations. It will be an exceptional period for XYZ but most of the larger new gTLDs are locked into a boom and bust cycle and have been so ever since the registries decided to use discounting to build registration volume. For all the talk of .COM, it went negative a few times in the last eight months but few seemed to notice.Wow! 60% of domainers that voted agree that "Collapse" is coming! I'm a bit surprised. Just a bit.
Yes, I look at those numbers.Yep but how many of them realise that about 2.5 million .COM domains drop every month? Most of the attention from domainers is focused on the upcoming .XYZ drops and that's going to be in the region of 3 million domains just for June 2016 registrations. It will be an exceptional period for XYZ but most of the larger new gTLDs are locked into a boom and bust cycle and have been so ever since the registries decided to use discounting to build registration volume. For all the talk of .COM, it went negative a few times in the last eight months but few seemed to notice.
Regards...jmcc
The .COM is still very robust as it has the momentum of large numbers. Some of the new gTLDs actually have higher renewal rates than .COM on one year registrations. The problem is that new gTLDs get grouped as a single set so people only see the major trends and don't see what is happening in some of the smaller new gTLDs that are seeing some development and usage. The heavy discounting by the largest new gTLDs has doen the whole new gTLD programme no favours and has destroyed some of its credibility. However, applying .COM keyword strategies to some of the new gTLDs is not a good one because many of these new gTLDs are actually domain hacks. The churn on some of the new gTLDs is very high but a lot of that is down to discounted registrations, zone stuffing and robot registrations.Yes, I look at those numbers.
Because analysis is difficult. People see simple zone counts and think that pending renewal/delete or zonefile size give the whole picture. Hundreds of millions of domain names have been registered and deleted over the years (I've over 500M in the databases) but domain counts are essentially a cross section of a large river at a particular point in time. The 1c promotion from XYZ is going to have a very poor renewal rate and since this is forming the bulk of the registrations that will be dropped in the next three months, it looks like XYZ is collapsing rather than just going through the normal bust that follows a boom.What's interesting to me is that no one seems to know why they feel there is a collapse.
For some reason it looks more funny when he censors the sh*t
There are some consumer safeguards I believe.So let me get this straight. There are a whole lot of new extensions that come to the marketplace to compete with dot com essentially. Some of those domains will become premium while most of those domains in the new extensions will fail. Take sex.com and sex.xxx or sex.xyz One domain is old and two are newish. As a business owner all three sex domains are inherently equal I think. I think dot xxx is actually better. But dot com is more valuable. But why? Consumer confidence and business development and experiences with dot com perhaps?
Now my question! If dot xxx and dot xyz start to falter and want to pack it in, what happens to sex.xxx? If dot xxx is faltering does that mean that sex.xxx falters also? Bc if it does, why would I as an end user go buy sex dot xxx only to see it falter with the rest of dot xxx? And now I'd be out of the money for dot xxx. Why not just go buy a dot com?
So let me get this straight. There are a whole lot of new extensions that come to the marketplace to compete with dot com essentially. Some of those domains will become premium while most of those domains in the new extensions will fail. Take sex.com and sex.xxx or sex.xyz One domain is old and two are newish. As a business owner all three sex domains are inherently equal I think. I think dot xxx is actually better. But dot com is more valuable. But why? Consumer confidence and business development and experiences with dot com perhaps?
Now my question! If dot xxx and dot xyz start to falter and want to pack it in, what happens to sex.xxx? If dot xxx is faltering does that mean that sex.xxx falters also? Bc if it does, why would I as an end user go buy sex dot xxx only to see it falter with the rest of dot xxx? And now I'd be out of the money for dot xxx. Why not just go buy a dot com?