new gtlds Rick Schwarz Predicts A "Collapse" Coming (ngTLD's)

[Silentptnr]

What do you think? Based on Rick's tweets, I believe he is referring to new gTLDs.

 

[The Durfer]

its inevitable, how many .com domains do you know and how many .top or .vip or .college domains do you know? Unless they are marketed to death they will fail.

 

[ben pedri]

I think rick has more to lose than anyone,remember there is always something newer and better. eventually all you will have to do is say out loud ''beam be the -uck up Jeffrey ,and you will be sitting in an amazon showroom

 

[DTR Alex]

I think Rick is right!

ngtlds have some drawbacks such as:

Reliability (ngtlds's registries are not as reliable as .com's)

SEO (Google gives rankings of domain extensions based on popularity, .com comes on first), please don't take SEO lightly, it is very vital part for an online business, if your website is not ranking in Google then you have to make a lot of efforts and energy to receive traffics from other sources and these traffics are not as targeted as SEO's.

CTR in Google search result, .com receives the highest

Popularity, new business enthusiasts are not aware of these ngtlds and they know .com very well.

Confusion: people may get confused with Finance.Solution as they never hear of .solution tld, if it is FinanceSolution.com they will easily know that it is a domain name.

And there may be many others, looking for more contribution to this thread from other experienced users.

 

[Cannuck]

Speech technology is sure to change the game, chaos to start, might help mis-spellings at first (or not), voice adword monetized - the big dogs will always rank.

nTLDs still have work to do to fill a niche where many good .com names have long been gone. It opens up options to new development, but to date I have only seen a few websites built on them.

 

[Alex Domain]

In order for domains to collapse- the internet has to collapse. And thats just not happening. Domains are real estate of the internet and will always have demand. ALWAYS. However, just like real estate / conmodity prices there are often corrections to the market.

Truth is all extensions have seen softening in sales prices lately.

However, no one really listens to you unless you use hyperbolic words like COLLAPSE and UNPRECEDENTED. Hahaha looks like someone's seeking attention.

 

[Silentptnr]

I really believe there are factors that have directly affected both the prices and volume of domain sales in general. Lackluster nTLD sales are not all because users just don't want to use the new gTLDs.

For example, a CNN Money article from September 8, 2016, shows that US Startups were near a 40 year low.

Here's a snippet:

Where are all the startups? U.S. entrepreneurship near 40-year low
New business creation in the U.S. (a fancy way of saying "startups") is at nearly a 40-year low.

So there could be more going on that is indirectly affecting the domain name market.

Here's the full article..http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/news/economy/us-startups-near-40-year-low/index.html

 

[Ategy]

SEO (Google gives rankings of domain extensions based on popularity, .com comes on first), please don't take SEO lightly, it is very vital part for an online business, if your website is not ranking in Google then you have to make a lot of efforts and energy to receive traffics from other sources and these traffics are not as targeted as SEO's.

Where did you get this information? I've never heard of it before and truly question that statement as the general consensus is the exact opposite. Google supposedly sees zero difference between let's say Garbage.com and Garbage.co and Garbage.xyz .. but might give local advantage to Garbage.co.uk for example.

Where the advantage for .com comes to play is the possible age difference if the .com was never dropped. But even that is unsure these days.

In fact .. one can argue that ngTLDs are actually more efficient at SEO as Google gets smarter .. meaning that BlueCars.com and Blue.Cars are equal in SEO power ... however Blue.Cars does it with 3 less characters hence the higher efficiency.


Now there are obviously other factors where .com is more favourable than ngTLDs in most cases .. but SEO isn't one of them when it comes to a purely domain name comparison.

 

[DTR Alex]

Create two websites on:

new-domain.com and new-domain.net

with same quality of content and same level of competition, and you will know the difference.

Yes, for local searches, it doesn't apply.......

And coming to ngtlds.............

I see good result for ProductReview.com compared to Product.review