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I think there is progress!
Couple of large sales suggest that people may be getting used to the new gTLD's.
Do you agree?
Couple of large sales suggest that people may be getting used to the new gTLD's.
Do you agree?
Just seems like I'm seeing them promoted more.No, there are always decent sales with new extensions..the good sales just get fewer and fewer and then stop.
NoDo you agree?
Agreed...1 million percent.If ICANN actually used a percentage of the ngTLD auction revenue to do a serious promotional campaign for all the alternate TLD it could transform the industry. But who knows what they have planned with their millions?
It's very true.Seems to be a bit of uptake lately.
They are the best thing ever for dot-coms.
I think there is progress!
Couple of large sales suggest that people may be getting used to the new gTLD's.
Do you agree?
I am seeing some domain investors with seemingly steady sales of new gTLD domains. I know @kerala regularly sells them.To become mainstream, you'd need to start seeing those on business cards, corporate cars, billboards etc. And that is not happening.
I am seeing some domain investors with seemingly steady sales of new gTLD domains. I know @kerala regularly sells them.
Not a dollar of ICANN's money reserve is going to this, most likely. The money raised by ICANN from the new G's will be used to fund charity projects, scholarships, internet security initiatives, etc. That's why ICANN is cash flush, but at the same time "running out" of money, cutting their operating budget, as they did not earn as much in registration and renewal fees from new G's as they had expected. The money earned from the new G auctions can't be used for their operational budget either.If ICANN actually used a percentage of the ngTLD auction revenue to do a serious promotional campaign for all the alternate TLD it could transform the industry. But who knows what they have planned with their millions?
Registrars do this all the time, GD does that too. At some point GD was defaulting to the .co.For example (which is driving me crazy), recently Dynadot changed their domain search function where it now shows ngTLD availability on top, then mixed in are the legacy extensions.
Thank you for that information and insight.Well (as a person who is heavily invested in new gTLDs) I can tell you following:
As for 2018, imho:
a) New gTLDs are not yet mainstream, but are heading to this direction - you can like it, or not.
b) Number of offers/sales are getting larger year by year - I can feel it myself in my portfolio. End users like unique and cool names.
c) We see some record sales of new gTLDs publicly announced, and this is just a beginnig - I would not be surprised to see some new gTLD sales larger then 1 mil until end of 2018.
d) Registrars, registries, ICANN, new gTLD investors AND END USERS - they all find gTLDs beneficial. No end user will ever complain that there are more options to name their business. If they do not like those options, they can ignore them, no problem.
e) If you builded large .com or ccTLD portfolio over the years you can naturally have some issues with new gTLDs - it is not fun for them to see part of the money redirected to new gTLDs. So this is the only group of people who can complain, which is fully understandable.
f) New gTLDs are just another investment instrument in domain space - as for private investors, most profit will be done, imo, by pre-mainstream investors. Logically, no one can seriously expect to get great name for $1 AFTER they becomes fully mainstream. In the process of investing there will be (are) some losses too, as everything is still in process and we need to learn everyday.
g) It is not true that all good names are hold by registries as stated by one of OPs above - you can see TONS of amazing names in private hands, with regular renewals or very reasonable smaller premium renewals attached to them - people who do their analysis and work are doing well. When you study in WHOIS who owns great gTLDs combos, you will find people from all around the planet, PLUS some clever and rich .com investors as well, who have diversified their domain portfolios.
Just IMO
If ICANN actually used a percentage of the ngTLD auction revenue to do a serious promotional campaign for all the alternate TLD it could transform the industry. But who knows what they have planned with their millions?
I think there is progress!
Couple of large sales suggest that people may be getting used to the new gTLD's.
Do you agree?
I've seen several used in the real world in various print advertising/billboards/side of vehicles. I was surprised at how difficult it was to recognize them as domain names, and even as a domainer I still struggled to recognize them as domains. Never saw anyone use WWW. in front, which I think is essential for indicating that a dot whatever is a domain. I forgot the domains, but extensions were obscure ones like .audio and .museum.Since the new gTLD launched I have seen 0 advertised in the real world - not even one on a billboard, sign, magazine, business card, etc.
Brad