.DEV DELUGE

[cabotower]

.homes is so yesterday.get ready for the .dev stampede.are ya in?giddy up!

 

[Bob Hawkes]

I found various dictionary words and numeric domains marked as "premium" by Google (premium first year price AND premium renewal!)

Yes, an important point. I did some exploring at Google domains earlier in the week to find some of the premium renewal rates for .dev - see my post above (and the longer article linked in that).

https://www.namepros.com/threads/dev-deluge.1121139/#post-7118312

I think the premium renewals make these risky domain investor holds in many cases, although the rates are not so high that most end user companies probably care much.

Bob

 

[Bob Hawkes]

A couple of points. I discovered there are two threads on .dev. I won't repeat it here, but I just did a long post on the other thread at this link.

I am blown away both by how many .dev registrations there are, and how many .dev websites are up and running - 49 in Alexa 1M already!

I am not sure if others have reported this, but apparently (from Namecheap tweet) both blockchain and bitcoin sold for $22,000 each during EAP. I presume big price renewal also.

Anyway, the interesting thing is that blockchain.dev is now running as a redirect to trustedblockchain.com, that seems devoted to economic justice so is using .dev in a broader sense than code development.

Bob

PS In case did not see it there is a new DNWire article out as .dev rolls past 64,000 registrations.

 

[jmcc]

If ordinary, Mom and Pop users, don't register and develop sites in a gTLD, then the gTLD will become a zombie TLD with little usage and just renewal fees. Google has demonstrated no in-depth understanding of the domain name business and is just cargo-culting along. The problem is that reserving too many premium domains kills natural domainer interest in many of these new gTLDs because it destroys the whole land rush phase of a TLD's launch. No land rush buzz = no awareness = no reason to develop sites.

Google's main problem is a lack of innovation and too many copycat ideas like Google Plus, Google Buzz etc. Its new gTLDs are no different.

Regards...jmcc