poll What’s the next break-out TLD?

DotEverything said:

What’s the next break-out TLD? Why?

How about all of the others?
.icu
.pizza
.directory
.ai

Which is your Favorite? Is there one dislike?

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There is nothing like "next break-out TLD". IMO it is best to invest in meaningful, right.left combinations. It does not matter really what exactly is .left, if you can get the good meaning across the dot with sustainable yearly renewal fee

I think .buzz has a ton of potential

Greeg said:

Anyone else have concerns about the ccTLDs and reliability? With all the uncertainty around brexit, covid, etc. as a business I don't think I would be investing in a ccTLD if I could avoid it. I think the gTLDs could get a boost in usage as more people become aware of the way ccTLDs are set up to operate

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Perhaps with some politically unstable countries, but in others like Australia, ccTLD (.au) is preferred over .com for commercial purposes because there are very strict controls over ownership.

For a USA based business, I think .us (ccTLD) but it is hardly new being established in 1985 - before the World Wide Web, and as of January 2020, there were 1,901,176 registered.

For an online shop, I'd say .shop (gTLD) because you know what you are getting, and it has been firmly established since 2016.

.cx

X is a powerful and mysterious letter.

Out of 27 votes, I'm the only one to vote for it.

Look where no one looks and see what has yet to be seen.

CraigD said:

For a USA based business, I think .us (ccTLD) but it is hardly new being established in 1985 - before the World Wide Web, and as of January 2020, there were 1,901,176 registered.

For an online shop, I'd say .shop (gTLD) because you know what you are getting, and it has been firmly established since 2016.

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.us is the first ccTLD in the world and was launch before .com but was release for free registration only in 2002 . Some statistics show are nearly 3 mil. registration but i guess 1,901,176 is the good one - even so at the begin of 2020 was only 1.3 i think for sure end of June 2020 was 1.6 mil so he increase
I predict .us as the next one and also lot of changes will come because GD acquire Neustar

Dot.us said:

.us is the first ccTLD in the world and was launch before .com but was release for free registration only in 2002 . Some statistics show are nearly 3 mil. registration but i guess 1,901,176 is the good one - even so at the begin of 2020 was only 1.3 i think for sure end of June 2020 was 1.6 mil so he increase
I predict .us as the next one and also lot of changes will come because GD acquire Neustar

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It has declined somewhat since the 1.9M count and was at about 1.65M at the start of September. Some of that decline is discounted registrations washing out of the zone. It really is an undervalued ccTLD. The problem was that it has been competing with the de-facto US ccTLD (.COM) and the registry found it very difficult to match .COM's dominance of the US market. I really would have liked to have seen Bob Parson's Godaddy take over .US ccTLD earlier because it is one amazing marketing operation. It would have really helped the growth of the ccTLD. At the moment, it is not a first choice TLD for US registrants. It will take a while for that to change. The best thing that domainers could do with .US registrations is to develop websites on them.

The .US has a long way to go to match some of the larger ccTLDs. Had there been some serious marketing money behind the ccTLD, it would have been around 50M registrations at this stage.The downside for domaining is that if the .US really takes off in the US market (it may be a ten year time frame depending on how things change), the value of .COM domain names will be affected.

Regards...jmcc

what about .co ?

shojib said:

what about .co ?

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A great breakout TLD for 2010 when there was far less competition. It was very well marketed and had a good uptake. The situation in late 2020 has changed and there are hundreds of new gTLDs that are struggling and many ccTLDs that have grown rapidly since then. I think that .CO has peaked at around 2 million registration but the registry no longer publishes statistics. The current number is probably much less than that. One of the indications is the high reg fee and renewal fee. That's generally a sign of a registry trying to hold on to existing registrations. It is the sunk cost fallacy in that domainers think a domain name is worth more after they renew it a few times and the holders of brand protection registrations keep renewing them because they think that the TLD is important.

Regards...jmcc

we still wait for .box tld.

shojib said:

what about .co ?

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.co tld is second Premium and commercial use tld in world because .com domain is already oversubscribe than next future is .co.

and also next future is ".Best", ".io", ".cyou", ".select"

what im seeing may startups use is extensions with two letters, one I found that makes sense for the letters they use is https://www.remove.bg/ (it removes backgrounds of images)

i think many different extensions may possibly have a bright future, but I would not consider them a breakout. In some ways slow growth with real use uptick is better than a sudden breakout anyway, in my opinion.

I think there is good evidence that many different country codes, both national and generic and hybrid, are doing well. I don't expect that to change. I think .xyz will continue to find a place, especially in certain regions. I am surprised that .cc has not done better, given that it seems very stable (run by Verisign through a division, no political issues that I am aware of) and has reasonable renewal without the deep registration discounting that leads to problems. Not that it has done that badly - 295 NameBio sales last year with $1450 average price.

Within new extensions, I tend to agree with @Brands.International that the match across the dot is more important than the TLD, although you of course want a well run and stable registry.

Thanks for the comments everyone, and for the statistical data, @jmcc.

Bob

PS Thanks for starting the poll and thread, @DotEverything

.finance seems to be breaking out

.ch or .ph don't sound bad

Dot.us said:

.us is the first ccTLD in the world and was launch before .com but was release for free registration only in 2002 . Some statistics show are nearly 3 mil. registration but i guess 1,901,176 is the good one - even so at the begin of 2020 was only 1.3 i think for sure end of June 2020 was 1.6 mil so he increase
I predict .us as the next one and also lot of changes will come because GD acquire Neustar

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I suspect that the higher figure I originally quoted (from Wikipedia) is total registrations over time, while the lower figure that you have quoted may be current registrations(?)

.mobi

Recons.Com said:

.mobi

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I think .mobi has come and gone.
People rarely use the term mobile any longer. It's either phone or smart phone.

CraigD said:

I think .mobi has come and gone.
People rarely use the term mobile any longer. It's either phone or smart phone.

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Nah! It is .mobi

The second coming of it will be glorious!

Stock up people! More people are using there mobi phones so the demand will grow really fast!!

.APP~Google has plans.

.Live has been ...Is and I believe will continue to gain more traction as Live Streaming continues to Influence the internet....Facial recognition IS the future and as we are all witnessing with TikTok...THIS IS NOT JUST ANOTHER TREND!

.ai without a doubt. With .io they form a credible alternative to .com domination.

Plus...they are shorter and exactly represent the industry they are in. .co is too scammy with relation to .com -- you will always have that comparison and leakage there.

Brands.International said:

here is nothing like "next break-out TLD". IMO it is best to invest in meaningful, right.left combinations.

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^^THIS!!

While some TLDs, and their registries, are better than others, in at least the new extension space it is the match across dot that is far more important than the TLD per se.

Bob

Pro is a good word, such as on the website cutout.pro

.xyz is soaring because it was cheap registration, and cheap renewal fee. So many .xyz domains are developed by small end users. This is becoming interisting to Big Companies, when seeing .xyz actually worked well in internet. Google also make algorithm that make .xyz well indexed, because it used by alot of people.

.co, .io, .ai was marketed well but the price are very high. The renewal cost also very high, so they are consider premium domains for small part of Startups.

.us is cheap, renewal fee is also cheap. But geo limited. Google search has algorithm that make .us only for US search. So .us is limited for US business or domain hack.

Might be .cc, .one, .vip can be the next tlds those are largerly adopted like .xyz. The sign is already seeing, as Chinese Internet prefers to use them, like .xyz 6 years ago.