advice DON'T GET LOST IN WEIRD .comBINATIONS!

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

Hey nP members,



we all know that the TLD space has changed completely.

While we can see many creative and great domains made from new TLDs we can see much more really weird and pointless .combinations - means weird and pointless domain name combinations in the .com extension - it often just looks like that 'it must be a .com in every case - no matter how pointless the name combination itself is'.

There are now so many opportunities to 'label' meaningful domain names with a new TLD - I personally recommend .top for the optimum / best 'label' - don't think .com is the future.

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DON'T GET LOST IN WEIRD .comBINATIONS!

Do you agree?
Or not?
What is your opinion?

All the best with your invest,
kingof.top

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

GoDaddy is selling .BEST where less than 3K domains overall.
Your arguments are completely irrelevant, and GD's marketing team is stupid as already said above.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Tier1 or not... - doesnt' matter for me if it sells...

 

[jmcc]

GoDaddy is selling .BEST where less than 3K domains overall.
Your arguments are completely irrelevant, and GD's marketing team is stupid as already said above.

My arguments state the reality of the situation. Your arguments are just opinion. Godaddy is a business. It is in the business of selling domain names. It is in business to make as much money as possible. The price for .BEST registrations on Godaddy is 121.13 Euro. That's an expensive registration but it it makes money for Godaddy.

Regards...jmcc

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

My arguments are also reality...
All good .PRO-drops since May are going to Pheenix.com for $69 start and up to $1,xxx.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

So Pheenix is able to make money on .PRO but GoDaddy - NO...
Not stupid???

 

[jmcc]

My arguments are also reality...
All good .PRO-drops since May are going to Pheenix.com for $69 start and up to $1,xxx.

No. You just don't seem to be able to see that there's a big world outside the domainer bubble and most registrars are concentrating on registration volume rather than catering for domainers who think that their favourite TLD should be carried by all registrars. And there's a cost for carrying a TLD. This is what end users and domainers often don't realise.

Regards...jmcc

 

[jmcc]

So Pheenix is able to make money on .PRO but GoDaddy - NO...
Not stupid???

Where is Pheenix based and what is its primary market? If Godaddy has the choce of selling thousands of .COM registrations a day or selling one or two .PRO domains every few days, which do you think they will choose? Godaddy knows its market.

Regards...jmcc

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

GoDaddy is able to attract at least 500K .PRO-registrations...
And regular .PRO-sales on their Auctions...
But they are stupid... that's why other companies are making money on the same theme...

 

[jmcc]

GoDaddy is able to attract at least 500K .PRO-registrations...

For a TLD with only 376K active regs?

Regards...jmcc

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

If unknown Chinese registrar can do 200K - then why GoDaddy can't 500K???
OK, I don't want to speak about that any more.

 

[jmcc]

If unknown Chinese registrar can do 200K - then why GoDaddy can't 500K???
OK, I don't want to speak about that any more.

Because they are bubble registrations that may not renew. The same bubble registration patterns happened across COM/NET/ORG/BIZ/INFO and a few other TLDs. They are not normal registrations and have a high probability of being dropped. The Chinese registrar was selling into the Chinese market.

Regards...jmcc

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

GoDaddy can sell keywords worldwide... or they are not "the biggest in the world"???
There are a lot of available in major languages... incl. English.
And to do aftermarket-sales via own platform...

That's all, watching EURO2016...

 

[jmcc]

GoDaddy can selll keywords worldwide... or they are not "the biggest in the world"???

Godaddy is in the domain name registration business rather than the keyword business. It isn't about keywords or any other domainer obsession with non-core TLDs. Godaddy is a volume business. Each TLD it carries has a cost in marketing and support. If the number of domain registrations it can sell in a TLD doesn't cover these costs and make a profit for the registrar, then it is not financially viable for Godaddy, or other registrars, to carry a TLD. That's the reality.

Godaddy had 40,934,522 .COM registrations as per the March 2016 figures. It had 697,975 new one year .COM registrations in March and 117,675 two year .COM registrations. It had 1,943,945 .COM domains renewed for one year. It is a volume business.

Regards...jmcc

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

The 'biggest registrar in the world' should offer every TLD in my opinion.

As long as GODADDY don't offer .top I will 100 % not choose them for any registrations.

Not offering .top as a registrar is like not offering petrol as a gas station.

 

[jmcc]

The biggest registrar in the world should offer every TLD in my opinion.

It got to be the biggest by not offering every TLD but rather by offering the most popular and marketing them well.

What you are seeing is the rise of a Chinese market in domain names that is at an early stage. Some of these new gTLDs are dominating that market so that there's a .CN ccTLD and these Chinese dominated new gTLDs. A lot of the registrations in an early market are speculative. With a market the size of China, the Chinese registrars are going to dominate it as they do with .CN ccTLD.

Regards...jmcc

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

It got to be the biggest by not offering every TLD but rather by offering the most popular and marketing them well.

What you are seeing is the rise of a Chinese market in domain names that is at an early stage. Some of these new gTLDs are dominating that market so that there's a .CN ccTLD and these Chinese dominated new gTLDs. A lot of the registrations in an early market are speculative. With a market the size of China, the Chinese registrars are going to dominate it as they do with .CN ccTLD.

Regards...jmcc

The biggest registrar in the world will offer .top sooner or later - I am sure.
They will realize what they currently don't.

If not, then they have political reasons for not offering it.

 

[dordomai]

Not offering .top as a registrar is like not offering petrol as a gas station.

Lol the funniest comment I read today,

 

[jmcc]

The biggest registrar in the world will offer .top sooner or later - I am sure.
They will realize what they currently don't.

If .top breaks out of the Chinese market and becomes a major TLD, then most of the big non-Chinese registrars will offer it. There has to be a sufficient demand from the customers.

Regards...jmcc

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

Not offering .top as the biggest registrar in the world is ridicules and nearly unbelievable - it simply looks like that GODADDY is in fear of .top because otherwise they would offer it simply.

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

If .top breaks out of the Chinese market and becomes a major TLD, then most of the big non-Chinese registrars will offer it. There has to be a sufficient demand from the customers.

Regards...jmcc

.top don't need GD but GD will need .top