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new gtlds Mike Mann: “Read my lips gTLDs are D*E*A*D, absolutely no demand!”

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Mike Mann shared on Facebook my article about the bad landrush phase that .Blog domains had last week and also shared his views on the New gTLDs in general:
Read my lips gTLDs are D*E*A*D, absolutely no demand! This was the best out of thousands, along with .web and .app Better luck with other snake oil. .Com stays king. If you also voted for Hillary, rough week. TYVMI.
He also made several other comments about new extensions such as:
How about don’t but them at all, they serve no purpose and cause many problems, and waste a lot of time and money.
Now that everyone knows gTLDs are dead, please Google “Mike Mann gTLDs” and you will see I hit the predictions spot on.
He continued by quoting my article:
Ruggh ruoggh, too many scooby snacks: “So the .blog registry made more than $150,000 from the landrush phase. That doesn’t seem bad but the registry spent $19 million to get rights for the .blog new extension.” Not counting millions per year of overhead. Lesson learned, listen to the mann next time and stick with .Com
He then made more comments like:
“Don't renew your fancy new gtld domains. The experiment is over. No material resale market will take root.”
Mike replied to a comment made by Phil Harris
26 million registered and new sites being launched daily .. X.company being used by Google , Rightside stock just raised to buy status by zachs investment firm .. Awareness growing , secondary 6 figure sales being made , Mike I would say you should watch the movie God is not dead ..
by saying
sure sounds like a bubble

Mike today talked about Google and .soy:
Google spent some energy telling me how ".soy" domain extension was going to be the next big thing a while back, I tried to splain what was up….. Not to discount the fine folks, fancy offices, and great buffet. Googs, gimme a buzz, I’m still a know it all.
Drinking own Koolaid instead of listening to grassroots in the streets
Technically I havent checked the sales numbers but lets take a wild guess, dramatically lower than their expenses…….. like I told them nicely before they invested

Konstantinos Zournas November 14, 2016
http://onlinedomain.com/2016/11/14/...nn-read-lips-gtlds-dead-absolutely-no-demand/
 
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It doesn`t mean that I don`t participate if I don`t buy from you.

I had aftermarket purchases before new gTLDs became available, now I have many more options to register.

Don`t you sense that your latest purchases became longer and longer in terms of letters you are typing in on the left of dot com?

Does it means that your portfolio is upgrading with those long domains?

Again with the nonsense. You new gtld fans always think you can only get superlong .coms that don't make any sense. Maybe get a little more experience first and hop on the aftermarket.
 
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That`s the cycle of life, the general rule of life that no one can change.

Every living organism, every business, every country or kingdom has it is

Born
Raise
and
Fall
 
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I'm glad that it is so. It's a Gold Rush. NamePros helps humanity.

It's a fool's gold rush. Let's not pretend you're drowning in new gtld gold. Share some of your new gtld sales.
 
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Again with the nonsense. You new gtld fans always think you can only get superlong .coms that don't make any sense. Maybe get a little more experience first and hop on the aftermarket.
I am not just a gTLD fan, I have assets on both dot com and new G`s.

Just because you are a dot com fan doesn`t make me a new gTLD fan.

I am fan of beautiful domains no matter the extension is.
 
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I am not just a gTLD fan, I have assets on both dot com and new G`s.

Just because you are a dot com fan doesn`t make me a new gTLD fan.

I am fan of beautiful domains no matter the extension is.

Great, I was just pointing out you've posted some ridiculous stuff today. From superlong .coms to 1985-1989 etc. Then you just added Cycle of Life. I can add that to Fall of Roman Empire, Dinosaurs, VHS tape, Horse and cars etc.
 
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It's a fool's gold rush. Let's not pretend you're drowning in new gtld gold. Share some of your new gtld sales.
@JB Lions post your latest domain sale kind of conversation is kind of childish.

Don`t make it personal. He would share when he has his sale.

When was the last time I see you share a sale from your portfolio?

See, thats childish and not polite at all
 
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@JB Lions post your latest domain sale kind of conversation is kind of childish.

Don`t make it personal. He would share when he has his sale.

When was the last time I see you share a sale from your portfolio?

See, thats childish and not polite at all

It's not personal, somebody says Gold Rush and has no new gtld sales, doesn't exactly add up does it.
 
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Great, I was just pointing out you've posted some ridiculous stuff today. From superlong .coms to 1985-1989 etc. Then you just added Cycle of Life. I can add that to Fall of Roman Empire, Dinosaurs, VHS tape, Horse and cars etc.
Is it hard for you to accept the reality?

Let me telll you this, you will never be succesful disparage others or you will never be succesful to sell your dot coms with disparaging new gTLDs.

Instead work on your portfolio
 
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Is it hard for you to accept the reality?

Let me telll you this, you will never be succesful disparage others or you will never be succesful to sell your dot coms with disparaging new gTLDs.

Instead work on your portfolio

I'm not disparaging. I find it interesting that somebody that's not getting sales, to tell somebody who is to work on their portfolio, especially when they said they liked it.
 
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It's not personal, somebody says Gold Rush and has no new gtld sales, doesn't exactly add up does it.
Do you have any kind of real estate?

Can you compare the prices from the past 10 years?

You win while buying in the business.

That`s what he means
 
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Do you have any kind of real estate?

Can you compare the prices from the past 10 years?

You win while buying in the business.

That`s what he means

We'll see how buying things with not much demand/market works out.
 
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I'm not disparaging. I find it interesting that somebody that's not getting sales, to tell somebody who is to work on their portfolio, especially when they said they liked it.
Let me telll you this, you will never be succesful disparage others or you will never be succesful to sell your dot coms with disparaging new gTLDs.

This takes how many of hours of yours in a month demarketing new gTLDs?

You can`t make sales like this.

This is what I mean.
 
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We'll see how buying things with not much demand/market works out.
You just can`t see the future, that`s your problem if it is not new gTLDs ruined your sales mate
 
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Let me telll you this, you will never be succesful disparage others or you will never be succesful to sell your dot coms with disparaging new gTLDs.

This takes how many of hours of yours in a month demarketing new gTLDs?

You can`t make sales like this.

This is what I mean.

My selling of domains has zero to do with my opinions on new gltds. This is a discussion forum, that's what's happening. You're just not bringing much factual stuff to the conversation. It's mostly hope, let's wait x number of years and ridiculous comparisons.
 
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Well, I mean for end users.

Why would they want Sandsof.time if it costs $50 every year, when they could have SandsofTime.com for only $8 - $10 renewal?


I guess if you have a big business, the expenses won't matter ^_^. But most of us sell to end users with personal / small businesses who have smaller budgets.

Unless you're implying that gltds are for big businesses only
Don't forget, .com's were $100 reg/renewal fee at one time as well ;)
 
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My selling of domains has zero to do with my opinions on new gltds. This is a discussion forum, that's what's happening. You're just not bringing much factual stuff to the conversation. It's mostly hope, let's wait x number of years and ridiculous comparisons.
You talk like you made millions on domains, how many of them are you holding on hope to sell in your portfolio?

You are a full time domainer, I wouldn`t suprise if you make few sales, for me it is not like that, it is a side job since I have to run businesses.

What`s happening is you are loosing money right now wasting your time with your non-sense.
 
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But ohh I forgot you have to disparage new gTLDs in order to sell your dot com s right?

Big decrease on dot com aftermarket sales after new gTLDs came in to the game.

Sorry forgot your strategy for a while.
 
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You talk like you made millions on domains, how many of them are you holding on hope to sell in your portfolio?

You are a full time domainer, I wouldn`t suprise if you make few sales, for me it is not like that, it is a side job since I have to run businesses.

What`s happening is you are loosing money right now wasting your time with your non-sense.

I'm not losing money because I discuss domaining topics on a domaining forum. Yes, I know you don't do this for a living. That's obvious. If anybody is wasting time, wouldn't that be you, since you could be using it for your real business? And not something you do on the side? It's funny in one post you talk about disparaging, then next post talk about losing money, wasting time, non-sense in my direction. When it's none of the three, well maybe the wasting time when I've read some of the stuff being posted.
 
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Share some of your new gtld sales

I had 2 $XXX offers last year when I had 10 good domains, and one $XXX sale this year when I have 20 good domains.
 
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I'm not losing money because I discuss domaining topics on a domaining forum. Yes, I know you don't do this for a living. That's obvious.
Doesn`t matter... I am here to make money with my investments.

I am not a domain trader instead I am a domain investor.
 
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I had 2 $XXX offers last year when I had 10 good domains, and one $XXX sale this year when I have 20 good domains.

offers matter not, sales do...

$xxx can be $100 or $999 - can you post exact figure less marketplace commissions?

how much have you spent on renewals/regs for the mentioned time period on your all (not only "good") nTLD names? are you in the black yet?


*i'm not a nTLD hater, just curious..
 
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wow u guys have really opened my eyes.

I think I will renew my .xyz for 10 years when these tlds will be as good as .coms :tightlyclosedeyes:
 
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That`s the cycle of life, the general rule of life that no one can change.

Every living organism, every business, every country or kingdom has it is

Born
Raise
and
Fall
this is a truism.
 
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