keithmt - you can check on
Namebio or on
DNSalePrice for .cn prices ... (put .cn as extension , leave name blank and then sort by price)
as I see rugby.cn sold for $25,000 ... hentai.cn for $18,000 ... organicfoods.cn for $11,100 ... and lotto.cn for $10,894
the .cn registration numbers are bound to rise a lot more (mostly because of the huge population and the number of people starting going online) ... as you can see in the link about .cn in the OP (that also has historic data) they quintupled in the last year (from 1.9 to 10.5 million)
regarding .cn prices ... because of the specifics of the chinese economy , it is not certain whether the prices will rise with the same high rate
Red Rock - no it was not from an article ... after you asked , I managed to find some info on .asia ... but I did not find any info readily available on .tv
I trade in .coms ... but word-wise speaking I like .net a lot also (.net has instant correlation with net/internet/on-the-net)
I think that because at first it was specific to networks/network-administration and later on as the second/other extension in relation to .com , it is "misbranded" and undervalued with what it would worth if it didn't have passed the 2 mental-correlations mentioned above ... I am not necessarily saying that it will rise in value or to invest on it (quite the opposite) ... I am just saying that the extension
as a word is very-good/powerful
eg. if .net was launched nowdays (as well as .web for the most part) and taking into consideration the way any current landrush has been , I think it would go sky-high in regs and values offering a good branding opportunity for some companies ... try to picture it your head ... if there was no .net and suddenly tomorrow there was an announcement for a new TLD called
.net ...
will it level it out in the (distant) future ? ... don't know but don't really think so ... maybe if the internet stays the same for more than 20 or 100 years lol (not likely) ... I think .com is king (and will remain king for many years to come)
regarding .de ... Germans really like their extension lol ... and in general (but not necessarily price/money speaking) I think many ccTLDs will rise more in the future (as they provide good branding in connection to country/locality or a respectable alternative to some <keyword>.com) ... the above though does not affect my preference towards .com
ssamriga , gaz - I have been watching domain statistics for some years now and these numbers are mostly organic growth ... there must be 2-3 million tasted domain in there ... but in general the rate at which .coms have increased in the last 2 years is demonstrated pretty accurately in the above numbers (from 50 million to 75 million)
if you want to get an idea of the domains currently tasted , check
this link (from
RegistrarStats)
it appears that there are 2,249,832 in Grace Period ... and it includes the normal registrations of the day (and logically the daily renewals also)
james2002 - see post #4 above ... it went Live (first-come-first-serve) on the 26th March ... so they will probably announce some new numbers/stats later on
