The future of .COM after new gTLDs boom! Big DROP?!

Bram C. said:

I'm not an old guy but in any case: young kids may be growing up with the new gTLDs but they see the same as old people do, a world of .com and ccTLDs.



I absolutely agree with you, it's either a .com or a ccTLD that most businesses/people in a country will use for their default extension.

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More lies. Young kids are growing up with nGTLDs?

Where is the evidence for that? All their social ,media sites are .com or ccTLDs !!!

I and many others saw .info, or .cc in their teens, still no one cares about them.

This is just brainwashing propaganda from the registries. At this point only a very small number of sites use a nGTLD so no one is growing up with nGTLDs at the moment.

They grow up learning that .xyz and .download are spam, and .wedding is something that no one uses.

ambrose.xu said:

5 star up companies choose new gtlds for their website。the last one choose .chatShow attachment 45666

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instagram started with instagr.am because they couldn't afford any better. Where are they now?

dordomai said:

Also if you use logic you will see that if only tens of thousands of .com are really interesting then only tens of thousands of ngTLDs are interesting for internet users.

Only tens of thousands of .co are interesting and only tens of thousands of .net are interesting.

So obviously not all of these are equally successful. Why? It's the first-movers advantage.

.com was there first that is why they are successful. nGTLDs were the last.

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True but the thing is: new.life his whole argument makes little sense. I think there are definitely more than 10,000 meaningful .com domains. I think there are a few million meaningful .com domains since .com can be used for basically anything. It's not limited to any niche. But if you compare .com to new gTLDs then it's easy to see that most new gTLDs are limited to a certain niche. As a result a lot of gTLDs only have maybe 100 keyword combinations that make sense (if that).

A gTLD like .yachts for example is extremely limited.You won't find a million meaningful domains there. You'll be lucky to find 50-100 meaningful domains. And most gTLDs are exactly like that (with some exceptions of course such as .xyz, .web,.. which can be used, such as .com, for basically any business/any niche).

dordomai said:

More lies. Young kids are growing up with nGTLDs?

Where is the evidence for that? All their social ,media sites are .com or ccTLDs !!!

I and many others saw .info, or .cc in their teens, still no one cares about them.

This is just brainwashing propaganda from the registries. At this point only a very small number of sites use a nGTLD so no one is growing up with nGTLDs at the moment.

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I think what @ambrose.xu meant to say is that young kids are growing up at a time where gTLDs exist. He assumes that when they grow up they will start buying new gTLDs. But like I said, they see a world where a .com or a ccTLD is being used so it won't impact them at all. When they grow up they will buy what they saw as a child: a .com or a ccTLD.

To give a real life example: I have a daughter of 8: She knows 2 extensions: She knows .com (she loves playing on gaming websites such as roblox.com and cartoonnetwork.com) and she knows .be (ccTLD for Belgium, where I live). She never saw a billboard with a new gTLD on it, she never saw a commercial on tv where some business used a new gTLD, she never saw a new gTLD being used anywhere here in Belgium. So it makes no sense from ambrose.xu to assume that when she grows up she would be interested in something she never saw before, something she doesn't even know exists.

Bram C. said:

To give a real life example: I have a daughter of 8: She knows 2 extensions: .com and .be (ccTLD for Belgium, where I live). She never saw a billboard with a new gTLD on it, she never saw a commercial on tv where some business used a new gTLD, she never saw a new gTLD being used anywhere here in Belgium. So it makes no sense from ambrose.xu to assume that when she grows up she would be interested in something she never saw before, something she doesn't even know exists.

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Good point. Another lie is that developing countries are coming online and will use nGTLDs. nGTLDs are for the most part English language strings, most suitable for English speaking countries. Sure some are local, some are easy to understand (.site, .online etc) but they are limited by language for the most part.

The most obvious target market for nGTLDs would be the US. If they don't take off in the US they won't succeed anywhere else.

As some others have pointed out, only a few million registrations are from the US. They are not very popular in the target markets.

To give an example:

If you live in Belgium where the languages spoken are either Dutch and French how do you brand with English TLDs? Not many French or Dutch nGTLDs exist, so you can only use English TLDs.

Most belgians will understand simple English words so it could be done but how will Dutch+English or French+English look like? A great option? Better than .be or .com? Not.

There is no way that they could succeed in a market like this.

arguement is meanless, i am just a domainer, and i sold some new gtlds domainnames and earned some money these years , one or two for end user :

a. kuai.live (around $500)
b. [brand].cloud (around $2200)-- can be found in namebios
c. [one PinYin].vip in China (around $3500) --
d. some NNN.live (around $500)
......

my profit is more than $7000 this year,
if i wanted,i would sold more .online and earn more money, some end users and veteran domainers accept new G, why r u wasting time on arguement.
i don't want to place more comments, earning money is the most important.

if u don't have [key word].com or cc tlds or good meaning .com domains, just stop registering rubbish .com , new G is your better choice .

dordomai said:

The real world is that this website is under .com, google is under .com facebook is under .com and most sites are either under .com and under cctTLD.

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dordomai said:

All their social ,media sites are .com or ccTLDs !!!

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It's funny but all the major .COM social networks lose their traffic to my new gTLDs.

With Zero effort expended on it with my hand! Just because someone's nickname, including companies, contains the "dot". Or someone writes something and accidentally puts a dot between words and those words are transformed by the system into a link to my domain.
I have a lot of domains that have tens and some over a hundred of unique visitors per day just because of this.

And most of these domains are not premium, containing the most simple words and phrases. There was never websites, and they were never in Google search.

But these domains have more than 100 unique visitors per day, and more than 3000 unique visitors per month.
It's all new visitors, but if you have a good website that those visitors will come back.
So next month you will not have just 3000 unique visitors, but much more!

~ 98% mobile traffic.

And it's the right visitors, because if they have clicked on a link containing for example "cash.today" they know what to do on this site.

36,000 - 50,000 unique visitors per year! ...just for $30 (!)
With Zero effort, Zero SEO, Zero money on advertising!

It's worth it?!

.com will continue first, later will share the market with a lot of new gTLD.Domain and in the future will be more widely used, because of the wide application of new technology will support the domain name.

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!


I wish .COM will NOT fall below 100 million mark!

And I wish new gTLDs to rise above 100 million!

Good luck!

.com is considered king of domain extensions and there is a reason for that. I personally think that every other trend may come and go but .com is going to retain the strength. If that changes and .com comes down I will try to grab them when they are cheap...

Update: .com registrations back over 127 million. Sooner than I expected actually.

According to Verisign the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base are back over 127 million after dropping below that number briefly in December.

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Source: https://www.thedomains.com/2017/01/15/com-registrations-back-127-million/

I just reg one
Maybe netfirms/dotster promo gave it a boost

are all LLL.tech names registered ?

https://sedo.com/search/details/?domain=entertainments.com
4,999 GBP (BuyNow)

???

Jurgen Wolf said:

https://sedo.com/search/details/?domain=entertainments.com
4,999 GBP (BuyNow)

???

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Buy it. Now.

Kuffy said:

So you startr a business, and you look for a .com name. You can't find one, so you use one from a fancy new registry. Your business expands, and you notice you are losing traffic to the .com of the same name. You save up your money, and buy the ,com to continue your expansion.

That doesn't sound like a drop to me.

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Ditto

O.co proved the public is .com centered so you CANNOT brand outside the .com tld

Investors will not get into a project UNLESS the .com is in it

All these new tld's are for speculation dough, the tld founder makes some dough, those that got a fit for the tld on a major keyword make minor dough, but the development and investment money will always be in .com for the foreseeable future.

For now the new tld's are quick money for churn and burn but it has no long legs IMO and no major sites will be in them, there's zero investor money for anything but projects with a solid .com

.com is still KING

B&J said:

Buy it. Now.

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Its still live.

Over 100s of leading companies spent money on getting their own new TLD. No one can't hide that truth.
If these companies truly believe in .COM they don't need to spend money on their own TLD. That's branding. That's not because they of they truly believe in .COM or .COM is a king.
Does anyone believe that they just grab their own TLD just for fun? No.
They will eventually move to their own TLD in near future.

126,490,526 as of 2/10/2017 .com
15,,818,050 .net[/QUOTE]

168 said:

126,490,526 as of 2/10/2017 .com
15,,818,050 .net

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and the DOMAIN NAME BASE (as of 2/10/2017)

.com : 127,648,110


Source: www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/domain-registry-products/zone-file/index.xhtml?loc=en_US&dmn=zone

Ah,
You have Base
I have active

IMO, because .com is too expensive to own now, so some companies use the new TLD that is related to their business. Especially, for startup they don't have much money so they have to use the new TLD.

168 said:

Ah,
You have Base
I have active

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True.

In the end both the domain name base and active registrations are again growing compared to December 2016. It's not a secret that Q4 2016 was bad for .com and for a lot of the new gTLDs. But since the chinese hype has now been recycled through .com is again doing what it's supposed to do: rising nicely again. My prognosis: .com will be at 129+ million active registrations by the end of the year. Feel free to make your prognosis as well

Bram C. said:

True.

In the end both the domain name base and active registrations are again growing compared to December 2016. It's not a secret that Q4 2016 was bad for .com and for a lot of the new gTLDs. But since the chinese hype has now been recycled through .com is again doing what it's supposed to do: rising nicely again. My prognosis: .com will be at 129+ million active registrations by the end of the year. Feel free to make your prognosis as well

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OK - clarify -Using your preferred base number ? or my active ?

" My prognosis: .com will be at 129+ million "active"

168 said:

OK - clarify -Using your preferred base number ? or my active ?

" My prognosis: .com will be at 129+ million "active"

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Active

Sinh said:

IMO, because .com is too expensive to own now, so some companies use the new TLD that is related to their business. Especially, for startup they don't have much money so they have to use the new TLD.

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you can still handreg OK .com if you keep trying and are creative.... it's not expensive if you put in some work.