new gtlds nGTLDs plateauing at 27-29million. Growth RATE has reduced by 90%

betthelot · Feb 28, 2017

nGTLDs plateauing at 27-29million. Growth RATE has reduced by 90% . 4million regged in first quarter 2016 but less than 300,000 in first two months of 2017.
Lots of free-minimum drops to come, rather than plateauing at 30 million could be the peak and down hill from here.
Clear winner .com and note .click over 60% of sites scanned were spam or harmful to your computer's health, this is the last refugee for many of these strings, even for Frank's vision.

MasterOfMyDomains · Mar 25, 2017

.gdn is up 45 reg
Not all bad news

Akilina · Mar 25, 2017

.wtf does .gdn stand for .lol

Does gdn mean something in Chinese?

MasterOfMyDomains · Mar 25, 2017

Global Domain Name
.GDN
There are a few people here that love this extension
Twosome it is short for .garden

jmcc · Mar 28, 2017

168 said:
Thanks for bringing real data to the table.
Keep in mind few New "G"s have approval in China thus few build outs, and the ones that do have approval just got approved.
Cheers

And the usage patterns for those gTLDs with Chinese approval will change. The Chinese market numbers are quite volatile and there are many gambling and adult affiliate landers as well as Chinese .CN/COM websites in these new gTLDs where no 301/302 HTTP redirect has been set up. When I look at the web usage and development in Chinese market gTLDs, it is like looking at the usage patterns from 2008/2009 in the gTLDs when domain tasting was at its height. The low registration fee has made what is effectively a domain tasting monetisation model viable again. It is amazing how popular video streaming sites are in the Chinese market. I haven't seen quite that level of streamers in other gTLDs and ccTLDs.

Regards...jmcc

168 · Mar 28, 2017

jmcc said:
And the usage patterns for those gTLDs with Chinese approval will change. The Chinese market numbers are quite volatile and there are many gambling and adult affiliate landers as well as Chinese .CN/COM websites in these new gTLDs where no 301/302 HTTP redirect has been set up. When I look at the web usage and development in Chinese market gTLDs, it is like looking at the usage patterns from 2008/2009 in the gTLDs when domain tasting was at its height. The low registration fee has made what is effectively a domain tasting monetisation model viable again. It is amazing how popular video streaming sites are in the Chinese market. I haven't seen quite that level of streamers in other gTLDs and ccTLDs.

Regards...jmcc

Yes the China market will be very different! Speculation has always been big in the culture. Interesting in some ways they lag and other ways there ahead.
I think the video adoption has a lot to do with the difficulties of the written language. How about Japan? I would think video would be more popular there as well
Cheers

dordomai · Mar 28, 2017

Avg Net Gain per day last week -109,565

https://namestat.org/s/newgtld-summary

iAchilles · Mar 28, 2017

I'm gobsmacked by this. A friend forwarded this email to me wondering what it was all about. His first question? Is this a scam?

Afternoon
I'm just letting you know "www.*********.Club" is now available for you to register and use, given your ******** affiliation with ***********.domaintheyown.

We are the actual registry who own dot-Club Domains, a global-leading new alternative to .com / .net / .org, with '*********.Club' being just $14 per month, (cancel anytime, no commitment what-so-ever), or a one-time payment option available.

You can get '**********.Club' from most places domains are sold, including GoDaddy, plus where you would of registered **********.domaintheyown, or direct with us at www.get.club, with this exclusive pay-monthly option, getting 15% off using discount code 'redacted'.

Please feel free to reply with any questions you may have, and visit www.get.club/home for more information on dot-Club.

So the .club registry is sending unsolicited outbound mail!? Of course they fail to mention that the first year's reg fee is 1k.

Ignoring the spamming tactics for a moment, this absolutely stinks of desperation, and this is from the "global-leading new alternative to .com / .net / .org".

It's also worth mentioning my friend owns a cctld and the name is different, so what they're offering is vaguely relevant. The .com of the cctld they own is available to hand reg for $10.

dordomai · Mar 28, 2017

iAchilles said:
I'm gobsmacked by this. A friend forwarded this email to me wondering what it was all about. His first question? Is this a scam?

So the .club registry is sending unsolicited outbound mail!? Of course they fail to mention that the first year's reg fee is 1k.

Ignoring the spamming tactics for a moment, this absolutely stinks of desperation, and this is from the "global-leading new alternative to .com / .net / .org".

It's also worth mentioning my friend owns the cctld and the name is different so what they're offering is vaguely relevant. The .com of the cctld they own is available to hand reg for $10.

are you sure that it is not from the registrar?

might be a rogue affiliate:

http://get.club/broker/

iAchilles · Mar 28, 2017

dordomai said:
are you sure that it is not from the registrar?

might be a rogue affiliate:

http://get.club/broker/

Positive. I checked the email header and it came from [email protected] and the signature is from someone who is employed by .club registry.

dordomai · Mar 28, 2017

iAchilles said:
Positive. I checked the email header and it came from [email protected] and the signature is from someone who is employed by .club registry.

if the email is not fake, wow. would be a new low then.

D Haynes · Mar 28, 2017

dordomai said:
if the email is not fake, wow.

This is something registries are starting to offer. Renting a name to you on a monthly basis so you can try to sell. So for example you might get wine.club for 10k and pay 100 bucks a month for however long so if you sell for 20k you pay the ballance and keep the rest and if after a year you cant sell it you end your rental annd are 1200 bucks out of pocket instead of 10k.

D Haynes · Mar 28, 2017

I head one of the domain sherpas talking about it on a recent review show if you want to hear more about if. I think they had done it with happy.club or something similar.

dordomai · Mar 28, 2017

UniflexDomains said:
This is something registries are starting to offer. Renting a name to you on a monthly basis so you can try to sell. So for example you might get wine.club for 10k and pay 100 bucks a month for however long so if you sell for 20k you pay the ballance and keep the rest and if after a year you cant sell it you end your rental annd are 1200 bucks out of pocket instead of 10k.

Understood, nothing wrong with that. I meant the spam, sending mails randomly to domain owners like in the mail above would be spam?

D Haynes · Mar 28, 2017

*Double post

D Haynes · Mar 28, 2017

I agree.

dumindu89 · Mar 28, 2017

How can I check the daily/weekly/monthly stats for .COMs? Any source?

jmcc · Mar 31, 2017

dumindu89 said:
How can I check the daily/weekly/monthly stats for .COMs? Any source?

https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/domain-registry-products/zone-file/index.xhtml

Regards...jmcc

Wass · Mar 31, 2017

dumindu89 said:
How can I check the daily/weekly/monthly stats for .COMs? Any source?

http://www.registrarstats.com/TLDDomainCounts.aspx

168 · Mar 31, 2017

dordomai said:
Avg Net Gain per day last week -109,565

https://namestat.org/s/newgtld-summary

Per http://www.registrarstats.com/TLDDomainCounts.aspx

New "G" adds 205,488
.Con adds 72,191

dordomai · Mar 31, 2017

168 said:
Per http://www.registrarstats.com/TLDDomainCounts.aspx

New "G" adds 205,488
.Con adds 72,191

.com has added 72k websites and the new Gs have added 200k more spammy loan domains

168 · Mar 31, 2017

dordomai said:
.com has added 72k websites and the new Gs have added 200k more spammy loan domains

HA! Gotcha to look

Kate · Mar 31, 2017

One thing to keep in mind:
For over a decade .com has been losing ground to ccTLDs.
But there is natural growth in almost all extensions (some are shrinking though).
So I could say that .com is dying because the growth in ccTLDs collectively outpaces .com - of course it's as ridiculous as saying new extensions are burying .com.

But we know how the numbers in new gTLDs are artificial and not sustainable. They are going to drop sharply, unless maybe they starting giving them away for free

That's how .tk became the biggest ccTLD.

Akilina · Apr 3, 2017

I didn’t understand all this talk about tombstones, but now I get it. It’s the shape of the graph. Like .flowers, right?.

There should be a competition for the best graph shapes.

duyencold · Apr 3, 2017

So we've stuck to .com, and .co.uk (inc .uk) and a few .net we registered many years ago.

Premiums · Apr 3, 2017

Kate said:
One thing to keep in mind:
For over a decade .com has been losing ground to ccTLDs.
But there is natural growth in almost all extensions (some are shrinking though).
So I could say that .com is dying because the growth in ccTLDs collectively outpaces .com - of course it's as ridiculous as saying new extensions are burying .com.

But we know how the numbers in new gTLDs are artificial and not sustainable. They are going to drop sharply, unless maybe they starting giving them away for free That's how .tk became the biggest ccTLD.

i have only one cctld domain: .tv

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