I think there is a decline in demand and price of .com domains because of new gTLDs. What's your opinion ?
At least in most european countries is like 85-90%cctld-10%com. I'm not saying that ngtld's are more popular than com or cctld's in any country, just that they are catching up...
4 year for a few of them, but mostly they started from 2015. Around 10% of my portofolio are ngtld, but believe or not, I get more offers for them than for net and org, so that should say something. Also, people are asking about them, most of them are not aware that ngtld are used, so want to know more. I've tested outbound for 10 ngtld, and received inquirires/offers for 3 of them, so much higher response rate than usual. Mostly, they are xxx offers, but for me it's a good sign for the future. Try to make outbound for com and check the response rate, people are aware of .com, it's nothing new, so it's hard to capture their attention.not seeing any of this happening. Startups are often at the cutting edge of innovation and it's been 4 years and they still don't use them much.
I own job.supply and it ranks better than jobsupply.com
Point being on even playing field where two registered domains have no content. The ntld ranks hire on googles search pages organically.
So I visited Rome a few months ago, I don't think that anything changed in the meantime. If you want to order a pizza, all are using 'it, hotels have 'it and 'com a well, but they are mostly for tourists, I have dealed with some of them buying something to sell in other EU country, they were using just .it, even do they were doing business all over Europe.
I have studied Top 100 Internet Companies and Top 300 New Internet Companies in China and published on my website. com is King in corporate China. For my latest study, please read "Analysis: next generation companies in China still prefer .com" https://domainnamewire.com/2017/09/18/analysis-next-generation-companies-china-still-prefer-com/China is usually using .com, or .cn. Not much different than from the US. Not sure about Japan but I would guess it is like in China.
I'm talking about acceptance..not real usage, I would like to see how you can measure that if you choose to stay in US and suppose that you know what most europeans are thinking, you can have a taste of reality by visiting some EU countries.
People who are commenting here and assuming that gTLDs or other extensions do not affect .com market have no idea about basic economics or how the markets work.
Of course, any other extension than .com is affecting .com sales and growth.
If you have more competitors in a market this means you will lose a certain amount of percentage in the market. If the number of competitors raises you will lose your customers to your alternatives.
If there were only .com available in the market it means that this extension is the monopoly for the industry.
But today there are hundreds of extensions available to register and millions of them registered by end users and domainers. So .Com is losing their market share to their competitors. Period.
People who are commenting here and assuming that gTLDs or other extensions do not affect .com market have no idea about basic economics or how the markets work.
Of course, any other extension than .com is affecting .com sales and growth.
If you have more competitors in a market this means you will lose a certain amount of percentage in the market. If the number of competitors raises you will lose your customers to your alternatives.
If there were only .com available in the market it means that this extension is the monopoly for the industry.
But today there are hundreds of extensions available to register and millions of them registered by end users and domainers. So .Com is losing their market share to their competitors. Period.
People who are commenting here and assuming that gTLDs or other extensions do not affect .com market have no idea about basic economics or how the markets work.
Of course, any other extension than .com is affecting .com sales and growth.
If you have more competitors in a market this means you will lose a certain amount of percentage in the market. If the number of competitors raises you will lose your customers to your alternatives.
If there were only .com available in the market it means that this extension is the monopoly for the industry.
But today there are hundreds of extensions available to register and millions of them registered by end users and domainers. So .Com is losing their market share to their competitors. Period.
You are viewing this as a domainer...nobody is saying that they are the best deal for a domainer, you should think as an end user, who doesn't matter if they pay 10$ in one year and 30-40$ in the next year. Also, there are companies who paid xxxxx for a ngtld when the com was for sale at low xxxx and parked or not revolving or even available, so that should say something about how end users are viewing them.For majority of new gtld's, there is no way to affect .com. Mainly, they are more expensive than .com, either at reg time or at renewal. The new gtld's that I bought- i thought they were good because of the cheap reg fee. When the renwal fee is 2 to 3 times of the .com, I no longer see it as an investment but a liability. As a matter of fact, I don't like that new gtld lower their price just to get me to reg, only to jack up the price a year after. Because a lot of new gtld's do that, they take away trust and create fear. Uncertainty.
But there are always few gtld's that will do good.
They probably won't do anything to .com.
I thought mobi would eventually rise. Now, no one cares about .mobi. Most consumers don't know what .mobi is.
Why pay the price for a .com when you can get the same name in a different extension.
There is, I admit, at this stage much greater mindshare for legacy tld's like .org and .net.
Colin Campbell,
CEO .CLUB Domains
These extensions are out for almost 4 years and they are dead in the sales charts, completely dead. We have less sales compared to 2-3 years ago not more.
Way to put up a straw man there. I'm not defending the new names, but surely some potential buyers would think twice about paying the premium for a .com.
In the past I have purchased .com names for development. Not anymore, my business model relies on search engine traffic. I don't see the point to pay for the .com when I can outrank it with one of the new extensions. Maybe I'm the only person on the planet not paying a premium to get the .com, but I kinda doubt that.
No, people from the start have used different extensions, this isn't new. But bigger companies understand why you get the .com.