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What gTLD failed you? For example, you stocked up for nothing.

I'll start. I jumped on the .vip bandwagon when it first dropped. I remember picking up "lounge.vip" which was appraised for several thousand by several members. Of course, stupid me, I hung onto it....'til the end.....the very end....as in $5 end. FML.

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I spent $10k on three .cars ($3k a pop) domains before I abandoned the project.
I held two and developed one, find.cars and too many people went to find.com and findcars.com.
Yet you would most likely get a higher appraisal than that today in this forum,
 
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It was a gamble from the beginning. I had a good cars program that was very profitable at the time. The expense didn't hurt that much and was gobbled up in all sorts of advertising expenses. Live and learn. I liked the .cars domain initially and grabbed it in case new gTLDs took off. Didn't really happen. Was a good marketing buzz boost for a while though. Few regrets with it.

Wrote an article on it few years back:
Why I Told My “New gTLD” Project to “Suck It” – Will Rebrand with King of all URLs
https://www.strategicrevenue.com/wh...o-suck-it-will-rebrand-with-king-of-all-urls/

Wow, John, and I thought my one gTLD was bad!
I read your piece. 2018 changes nothing! Fully agree

For what worth, majority of people emphasized and supported under article comments, rare nowadays!
 
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Just had an LLL.store expire. Obviously wouldn't renew it for $45, but planned to register again with a first-year promo price. Nah, registry-reserved now. Good luck selling it, Radix, and you could have had at least my $2 :smuggrin:
 
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I learned my lesson with .mobi ))

Regarding ngtlds, I did small experiment with .homes promo with 22 names purchased. Needless to say, not a single inquiry in about 10 months. Will probably drop all. And that includes names like classy, mint, masterpiece, fave, finer, ensure, stellar, superb etc.

.com is the bread and butter of this industry. And every exception just proves the rule...
 
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Instead of focusing on the worst I will focus on the best. For me it's been .app.....:xf.grin:

Yes, but quite off topic O_o

For me it was an entry into the .co and I decided to stick with what I know which is .com & .ca.

I guess .co is more of a ccTLD but used as a gTLD by most.
 
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Haha, share with us your best example of how .app was good to you?

That would be another topic, this one is about what failed you, you have to pick your poison when you open a topic.
 
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.Company it like the Diamond , Keep it for future ;) .
 
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Very interesting that .com is considered the worst performer for some.

I guess given the fierce competition it is hard to register anything of value nowadays...

PS @lolwarrior your honesty always impresses me (y)
 
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It is a fun idea for a thread, although tough to answer. I suspect we all have had names in some extensions without sales. Also, keep in mind that in new gTLD the match across the dot is more important than the actual extension itself.

First to follow being positive (contrary to thread title :xf.wink:) but the global TLD which has been best for me is .org. I have put so little work into researching them, have never had more than 5 at a time, never paid more than reg fee or equivalent, never really promoted any, but it is my best ratio of returns to price. .Space and .icu have also been a nice ratio of clearly positive for me, with multiple sales, although only a few $$$+.

Worst? If I measure that as the worst ratio of return vs money invested (and discount the ones with a handful of registrations but 0 sales) it is actually .com. I am hoping that will change, but as of now that is my personal experience.

If worse is measured as the most registrations without a sale it would be .best or .gdn, but in neither case did I sink a ton of money in the extension. For .best I still hold out hope I will get sales, as they make nice domain phrases, the standard renewal has recently dropped, and the launch of The.Best social network will increase visibility.

I have let almost all of my .top expire, but although I had a few low value sales I have registered a bunch without inquiries in the past. I think it is hard to sell unless you are China based. My .xyz experience sort of the same. A low value sale but no real end use interest.

Others that I have held not a lot but have not had sales or inquiries are .info and .pro. Trying to decide whether to renew or not on a few one word ones right now. I have not had a sale yet in .one, but with great words I definitely see worth in the TLD.

Bob
 
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Bob, in 2019 .PRO average conversion ratio dropped from 20-30 (in previous years) to 40-50 domains per 1 inquiry.
With 1-1X domains your chances are ~0 from the beginning.

Regarding .info - its aftermarket is almost dead few years already.
 
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Sadly Bob I don't see it getting better because the so called premium renewals on the 3 dot-best which I believe are my 'best' are a high $80.50 and paying $241.50 is way too much, imo and I plan to renew just one.

And the new .best standard renewal cost is also far too high at $17.50 for names I mostly paid $2 or $3 for early in the year which get no sales and a few rare low xx offers. However I may be willing to possibly renew about 1/4 of them if they were priced $5 or lower.

I may be incorrect but do not see how the proposed social network can help. What would have helped a lot were real sales of hotel.best and hotels.best for the 1-million $ or more Cyril talked about a long time ago, which I assume never did happen although Cyril made it seem like a sure-thing at that time :xf.frown:

...If worse is measured as the most registrations without a sale it would be .best or .gdn, but in neither case did I sink a ton of money in the extension. For .best I still hold out hope I will get sales, as they make nice domain phrases, the standard renewal has recently dropped, and the launch of The.Best social network will increase visibility. Bob Hawkes
 
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.best is still below 50K domains... too many variants for endusers at regfee.
Aftermarket usually starts from ~200K...
 
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Just had an LLL.store expired. Obviously wouldn't renew it for $45, but planned to register again with a first-year promo price. Nah, registry-reserved now. Good luck selling it, Radix, and you could have had at least my $2 :smuggrin:

Even with likely upcoming 7% .com rate hikes, i’ll take the .com pillar of stability. (Price + quality)
.com still some of lowest rates ($7.85 wholesale!!)
.com is still the King, Platinum! —#2 NOT Close!!

When I see thousand dollar renewals for these so called “premium” gTLD, screams scam + corruption.

Guy who shared his article, disagreed with “scam” in a post under his article saying, he willingly invested money, despite the unfavorable financial outcome.
I respectfully disagree!
 
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This is about GTLD FAILING us. NOT PUMPING .COM PEOPLE!!!
 
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Just had an LLL.store expire. Obviously wouldn't renew it for $45, but planned to register again with a first-year promo price. Nah, registry-reserved now. Good luck selling it, Radix, and you could have had at least my $2 :smuggrin:
If the first year promo applied to your .store name, it had to be name with standard renewal. I have few .store names, and I keep them at registrar where their renewal/transfer annual fee is $7.

So instead of dropping your name, you could transfer it to the registrar I write about (PM me if you want the details, I am not promoting anyone) and you would pay just &7 and keep the name. For price of $45, you can renew for 7 years in advance and be done with it.

Remember that registries have total right to reprice/reserve the name once registrant drops the name. So if you were lucky to get something really good, just do not drop it :)
 
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I thought you didn’t invest in .com?
How did it fail you? You have over 1,000 new TLD’s but .com failed you?

We’re talking about the extension that makes up for 99.99% of 6 and 7 figure sales? That’s the extension that failed you guys?

Let’s get real.
 
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I thought you didn’t invest in .com?
How did it fail you? You have over 1,000 new TLD’s but .com failed you?

We’re talking about the extension that makes up for 99.99% of 6 and 7 figure sales? That’s the extension that failed you guys?

Let’s get real.

Part u had to admire the honesty (as MapleDot said)
But the other part is rechecking spelling thread title:
Is .com considered “gTLD..”? Didnt think so :xf.wink:
Agree w/ logic; wonder how pple make gTLD money

gTLD fans can try flip the script, as hard they want..
But like gTLDs... they are in the minority! GL!
But be honest with prospective new investors... the difficulty of non-.com compared to .com... HUGE. (Happy (if) you’re profiting, but dubious of new exten. “.Sucks”, is when i committed, not ever go that path! I’ve been grateful, ever since. Undervalued .com are more common than you think — ignore the DN age!!
GTLD coming out every day..! DN age meaningless!
applied “ignore age” .com buys much funner, easier
 
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We’re talking about the extension that makes up for 99.99% of 6 and 7 figure sales?
Hate to be a stickler for details, Josh, and the overall point of your post is well taken, but if we consider the past 5 years and define 6+ figures as $100k+, then according to NameBio 339 of 389 are in .com (87.1% instead of 99.9%). I know many sales not on there, but we have no way of knowing if they would be more or less in .com.
Bob
 
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Very interesting that .com is considered the worst performer for some.

I guess given the fierce competition it is hard to register anything of value nowadays...

PS @lolwarrior your honesty always impresses me (y)
Exactly that (fierce competition).. if I would see real opportunities in .com, you would see me investing massively in it, and talking extensively about .com only :)

But this is not the case for me personally - I am fairly new domain investor, if we consider time doing it (I started in 2014, when new gTLDs started), so I was not in the industry around years 1997 or 2000 as many veterans here, who now share here their experiences with. mobi or biz or such. I evaluated opportunities in .com when I started and simply found out that for legacy extensions I am too late in the game. Luckily, new gTLDs worked as some kind of "opportunity equaliser" in domaining for some of us, younger investors.
 
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Is .com considered “gTLD..”
I realize some famous domain people use it differently, but my understanding is that .com, .net etc. are global domain extensions. They are clearly not new gTLDs. But the thread does not say new. So I think many people, both legacy and new investors, who responded interpreting it as any global TLD were consistent.
Bob
 
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Hate to be a stickler for details, Josh, and the overall point of your post is well taken, but if we consider the past 5 years and define 6+ figures as $100k+, then according to NameBio 339 of 389 are in .com (87.1% instead of 99.9%). I know many sales not on there, but we have no way of knowing if they would be more or less in .com.
Bob
Hi Bob - I love the stats but the fact of the matter is that there are 6 figure .com sales that are unreported EVERY single day.
 
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