new gtlds New gTLDs are DEAD!! Frank Schilling drops 230,000 new gTLD domains

Whens the funeral gonna be?

Till you Run out of gas, darn pipeline broke

mad409 said:

Whens the funeral gonna be?

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i have funeral.live was thinking live funerals for dead people "don't ask i was drunk at the time"

NEW GTLDS ARE DEAD.LIVE

.Property 26,440

.Flowers 14,672

.Audio 13,770

.Diet 12,978

.Link 12,261

.Help 10,900

.Christmas 10,576

.Hosting 9,163

.Blackfriday 7,020

.Hiphop 3,583

If I had this kind of extensions, I would have deleted them as well. lol

right now for nGTLDs is like the .com equivalency of 1992. Whoever heard of .com in 1992? Yet were already talking about the massive failures of new gtlds after only 2-3 years?? In this case, Uniregistry owns these extensions, what did they do, buy the names from themselves? It's not even what many of you are thinking.

Grego85 said:

right now for nGTLDs is like the .com equivalency of 1992..

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haha, no it's not.

One door close, another one opens.

All you have to do is look at the join date and who's in the pro and con camp.

Sam said:

All you have to do is look at the join date and who's in the pro and con camp.

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So you're saying that your a pro because you joined in 2005 and anyone that joins NP, lets say 2014, 2015, 2016 is a con. Please, give me a break.

That's about the most arrogant remark I've read around here in quite some time.

Join dates mean nothing IMO...

If Frank -one of the best and most experienced domainers - had priority access to the best domains and could get them below regfee and is still dropping them what does that mean for the average domainer?

Don't see how you can make money with this.

dordomai said:

If Frank -one of the best and most experienced domainers - had priority access to the best domains and could get them below regfee and is still dropping them what does that mean for the average domainer?

Don't see how you can make money with this.

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Depends on what he's dropping, anyone have a list?

garptrader said:

New TLDs are great for low-budget developers and small businesses who don't want to pay for an aftermarket domain.

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II think so, this is the interpretation key!

garptrader said:

However that makes them challenging investments. Keyword availability tends to be easier in alternative extensions because there are far fewer registrations in those extensions. However selling domains in alt TLDs continues to be rather difficult. If you cannot sell .net or .info or .tv domains at a portfolio profit why would you invest in New tlds?

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NewTLD for a domainer is a bet. As far as I have seen only the huge premium nTLDs have an interest, and profitability, in some niches.

We must also consider that many firms bought/buy nTLD to protect their image on Internet.

Grego85 said:

right now for nGTLDs is like the .com equivalency of 1992. Whoever heard of .com in 1992? Yet were already talking about the massive failures of new gtlds after only 2-3 years??

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It's more like .mobi in 2009

briguy said:

I can see why he got rid of some extensions

Thinking maybe he keep the premium one and dumped the garbage..

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Frank Schilling understood that he had made a huge mistake in the past and now he is fixing it ...

Bullock said:

Frank Schilling understood that he had made a huge mistake in the past and now he is fixing it ...

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If you look at the list in the OP's posted article, pretty bad names were held as premium, I see why he released them. I'd like to see his full list of released domains and extension but not sure that will ever happen.

A few example of so called premiums released:

accessible.help
actress.pics
cause.help
classmate.link
comedy.pics
creative.photo
entertainment.photo
fileserver.link
inappropriate.pics
localhost.link
money.hosting
original.photo
photobox.photo
points.link
retouching.pics
reunion.lol
reunion.pics
sample.photo
secret.hosting
strategic.help
texas.hosting
trial.hosting
wineries.link
workforce.link

Money.Hosting

the registries are dropping their portfolios and we are supposed to buy more..

dordomai said:

the registries are dropping their portfolios and we are supposed to buy more..

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You can buy whatever you want, didn't say that. Just said I'd like to see what was held as premium and now is not. Sure I might be interested in some if they're not premium now but without a list it would be to time consuming to find what they lowered pricing on.

Frank had first access to this stuff, wasn't hand regs., you understand right?

mad409 said:

You can buy whatever you want, didn't say that. Just said I'd like to see what was held as premium and now is not. Sure I might be interested in some if they're not premium now but without a list it would be to time consuming to find what they lowered pricing on.

Frank had first access to this stuff, wasn't hand regs., you understand right?

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No I meant that the registries expect us to buy more.

Yes of course Frank didn't handreg them. He got the best ones he could take before anyone else could. Back then domainers would complain that there were no good domains available under his extensions because they were either premium or taken by him (NorthSoundNames).

If the guy who had priority access to all keywords at regfee prices is dropping most of them that's not a healthy sign. How is a domainer supposed to compete with the registries AND make money if the registry portfolios are not doing well?

I still do not forget about about this man's comments about .com and these shit extension.

If someone succeeds, we tend to follow them forever as if success is their copyright.

Lesson: Do not blindly follow anyone. Use your knowledge and stick to conviction and learn from failure.

In this field, so many successful domainers and bloggers use every tool to propagate their agenda.

Do not blame others for your silliness (blindly following someone). Take responsibility for your deeds.

dordomai said:

No I meant that the registries expect us to buy more.

Yes of course Frank didn't handreg them. He got the best ones he could take before anyone else could. Back then domainers would complain that there were no good domains available under his extensions because they were either premium or taken by him (NorthSoundNames).

If the guy who had priority access to all keywords at regfee prices is dropping most of them that's not a healthy sign. How is a domainer supposed to compete with the registries AND make money if the registry portfolios are not doing well?

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Well I agree. I'd still like to see the full list, sometimes domainers can do more with making sales in the long term than they can but it's probably a bunch of junk like the list provided above but not sure.

I'm more forward looking now, so this is something he should have thought of way back IMO.

Summary for newbies
.Com is king

Ngtlds:
Emperor's new clothes

Replace .mobi with any of those extensions in this comic.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/th...hat-will-happen-to-new-gtld-investors.971597/

.com remains the force.. in spite of ups and downs!