Just wanna know why, domainers don't like new gTLDs?
I personally like new gTLDs very much - my whole portfolio is based on them
For those that do not like them I would advise - try to get better names, and more knowledge about what is available atm. And you need to put lot of hours into this as well. Which means also to reach to relevant end users. Chatting here at forum will not do that, and although it is important as well, and I like it, each minute one spend complaining here is a minute you can use to connect with founder of startup, or marketing director at lets say, Linkedin.
Just wanna know why, domainers don't like new gTLDs?
oh and while walking, I actually retrospectively had an epiphany while thinking about this post. I realized that whoever owns exchange.com (it just doesn't resolve) could make so much money on simple ad revenue from people landing there from all the .exchange typos. Not just stocks.exchange, but everyone who puts a .com at the end of an .exchange address.the best way to sum up why gTLDs suck is this:
I used to use stocks.exchange for crypto.
and even though I'm obv into domains and own gTLDs, and even though i'm fully aware of the website. And even though I'm actively trying to go against the stereotype that people aren't aware of gTLDs, so they don't understand they're an address....
...despite all that, I found myself typing in stocks.exchange.com on autopilot when I wanted to visit the exchange. It happened enough times that I honestly realized that gTLDs would never really make it.
it's not that people aren't aware of gTLDs, it's just that the .com brainwashing won't really end. As long as .com is prevalent, people will be conditioned into thinking websites end in .com.
I'm sure lots of people will argue with me. but it's from my own personal experience. the fact that most of the sites I visit everyday have me typing in xfiojasofjsafj.com, over and over... it takes an actual flip of a switch effort to NOT type .com at the end of an internet address in the address bar.
companies would find this undesirable tbh. when your customer has to make an extra mental effort just to type your domain into the search bar (that's like step 0 of whatever "consumer journey to conversion."), well anyway it's just not good.
imho the only way people will be used to gTLDs is if there's some kind of radical shift away from .com websites. The two can't really coexist happily.
Just wanna know why, domainers don't like new gTLDs?