discuss Future of new gTLDs in next 5 years.

[Dmytros]

Hello! Some time I am investing in gTLD domains, the reason - I see future in them. People in todays reality want to become more individual and personalized.

I cannot understand domainers investing in gTLDs and then saying "that's crap", "read my lips, gTLD are D.E.A.D", and etc.

What are you doing investing in names like zxzxzx.life or unclebobsmith.catering? This have no sence, if you are trying to fool someone, you are fooling only yourself.

One of the reasons of developing gTLD is to stop market speculations. Now anyone should have name he always dreamed for! BUT, there is also the names which are really unique, names prices on .shop, like example, for 150.000$

Simply - real.life, street.fashion, ideal.menu, winter.clothing, easy.money, etc. There is such names in ANY extension, and believe me, they COST their renewal fees...

And now, how do you think, what are the perspectives of such gTLDs? How many years we need to make generic gTLDs fully implemented in virtual life of any person in this world? How many gTLD auctions should rise before that?

That's a question like when Bitcoin will cost 10.000$ or when robots should be in any house

Thanks!

 

[Kate]

WOW . end users that aren't confused. Dordomai, Kate, save them. It's not too late. Explain how any crappy legacy is better just because.

Those articles are always published by news outlets using .com domains. Preaching water while drinking wine

Let's look at some companies that already accepted that .COM era has gone

http://www.next100.bmw
http://nic.microsoft
https://www.home.barclays
http://global.canon
https://upshot.agency
http://numerical.recipes (They prefer this domain over two letter NR.com amazing .COM boom hahaha)

Hmmm let's see It's often the same URLs quoted over and over, because success stories are rare perhaps.

nic.microsoft: a great site that nobody visits. Are you allowed to register .microsoft domains, if you even want one ?

http://numerical.recipes: I guess they will sell NR.com, they will make money this way than they have ever made from their website. NR.com is clearly underutilized at this point. Alice Registry also sold their ar.com a few years ago.

home.barclays: the only thing that is not migrated to .barclays is the online banking: the link is https://bank.barclays.co.uk/olb/auth/LoginLink.action. I wonder why, maybe customers won't trust the new extension ? It's not like they didn't have plenty of time to do the migration. It's nearly complete.

Then I visited global.canon, if you click on 'About Canon' most links point to http://www.canon.com/. The journey to .canon didn't last long for me. What's the point really ? To be honest, the migration didn't solve any problem, since they have been using canon.com since 1990.

Even Google has accepted that .COM era has gone.
https://abc.xyz
https://www.registry.google

Again, two sites that hardly anybody visits. They are not taking a chance.
You still go to google.com right ? Then they redirect you to the local extension (unless you're in the US).

They day you go to home.google for your searches, I agree it's going to be something newsworthy.
So far Google are experimenting with different TLDs, including some that they do not own. But there isn't a clear strategy. It looks just like that: experiment. They are using new extensions, but for secondary sites.

I think that there are too many sites on new extensions, that hardly anybody visits. New extensions need to be advertised heavily and used by major websites, otherwise people are not paying attention. If new extensions are used for satellite sites or redirects, people won't take them seriously either. They will regard them as gadgets like the URL shorteners.

Even the pioneer companies don't always display a lot of trust or consistency in their own branding strategy, this I just demonstrated above, using the links that you quoted.

There is not even one website using a new extension, that I visit on a daily basis. What about you ?

 

[dumindu89]

Those articles are always published by news outlets using .com domains. Preaching water while drinking wine


Hmmm let's see It's often the same URLs quoted over and over, because success stories are rare perhaps.

nic.microsoft: a great site that nobody visits. Are you allowed to register .microsoft domains, if you even want one ?

http://numerical.recipes: I guess they will sell NR.com, they will make money this way than they have ever made from their website. NR.com is clearly underutilized at this point. Alice Registry also sold their ar.com a few years ago.

home.barclays: the only thing that is not migrated to .barclays is the online banking: the link is https://bank.barclays.co.uk/olb/auth/LoginLink.action. I wonder why, maybe customers won't trust the new extension ? It's not like they didn't have plenty of time to do the migration. It's nearly complete.

Then I visited global.canon, if you click on 'About Canon' most links point to http://www.canon.com/. The journey to .canon didn't last long for me. What's the point really ? To be honest, the migration didn't solve any problem, since they have been using canon.com since 1990.

Again, two sites that hardly anybody visits. They are not taking a chance.
You still go to google.com right ? Then they redirect you to the local extension (unless you're in the US).

They day you go to home.google for your searches, I agree it's going to be something newsworthy.
So far Google are experimenting with different TLDs, including some that they do not own. But there isn't a clear strategy. It looks just like that: experiment. They are using new extensions, but for secondary sites.

I think that there are too many sites on new extensions, that hardly anybody visits. New extensions need to be advertised heavily and used by major websites, otherwise people are not paying attention. If new extensions are used for satellite sites or redirects, people won't take them seriously either. They will regard them as gadgets like the URL shorteners.

Even the pioneer companies don't always display a lot of trust or consistency in their own branding strategy, this I just demonstrated above, using the links that you quoted.

There is not even one website using a new extension, that I visit on a daily basis. What about you ?

Yes. I am a Sri Lankan. I regularly visit a GOVERNMENT OWNED lottery board web site check lottery results. They use a new TLD; .today instead of a gov.lk or .lk extension.
What do you say now?

Ohh.. I have one more question. Why these most of fortune 500 company CEOs including Walmart, Apple, Ford approved applying for their own TLDs while they have nice .COM domain for their brand?

 

[abdussamad]

Ohh.. I have one more question. Why these most of fortune 500 company CEOs including Walmart, Apple, Ford approved applying for their own TLDs while they have nice .COM domain for their brand?

This is a good question. Why are they doing this? They can't be defensive registrations because ICANN will not allow other people to register .apple or .walmart. It must be for the prestige of it all.

However this doesn't matter to you speculators here. It doesn't affect the new gTLDs market.

 

[atinc]

Bright future on new gTLD`s!

Following is the website launched by Mercedes in Turkey.

amg.istanbul

 

[nothere]

Yeah, really. You should sell your house and buy gtld. What can possibly go wrong

Seriously forget about these marketing gimmicks. Unless .instanbul and .blah is advertised heavily all the time, it is not going anywhere.

I have Birmingham .al (Albania) and no one has offered anything. Anyone in USA can connect the name with the .cctld (.al) but yet no one wants it. Unless it's a .com good freaking luck!

Bright future on new gTLD`s!

Following is the website launched by Mercedes in Turkey.

amg.istanbul

 

[atinc]

Yeah, really. You should sell your house and buy gtld. What can possibly go wrong

Seriously forget about these marketing gimmicks. Unless .instanbul and .blah is advertised heavily all the time, it is not going anywhere.

I have Birmingham .al (Albania) and no one has offered anything. Anyone in USA can connect the name with the .cctld (.al) but yet no one wants it. Unless it's a .com good freaking luck!

@nothere first of al you need to know what you are talking about to make a contribution on a topic.

First of all it is not ".instanbul" It is ".Istanbul" .

Secondly Istanbul is a city with 15 Million Population, trust me the cities economy is bigger than 127 Countries GDP which I believe Mercedes also sell in those countries too.

A little reminder : There are only 196 countries exist on earth !

Hope it helps you to understand what you are talking about...

This is not marketing it is only the Statistics.

You can simply google it

 

[nothere]

@nothere first of al you need to know what you are talking about to make a contribution on a topic.

First of all it is not ".instanbul" It is ".Istanbul" .

Wow, you really got me, I must know nothing then

Secondly Istanbul is a city with 15 Million Population, trust me the cities economy is bigger than 127 Countries GDP which I believe Mercedes also sell in those countries too.

The problem is the many tlds. .com, .net, .com.tr etc etc...confusing Instanbul residents. So the real value will go to one .tld that is most used.

 

[wot]

Those articles are always published by news outlets using .com domains. Preaching water while drinking wine


Hmmm let's see It's often the same URLs quoted over and over, because success stories are rare perhaps.

nic.microsoft: a great site that nobody visits. Are you allowed to register .microsoft domains, if you even want one ?

http://numerical.recipes: I guess they will sell NR.com, they will make money this way than they have ever made from their website. NR.com is clearly underutilized at this point. Alice Registry also sold their ar.com a few years ago.

home.barclays: the only thing that is not migrated to .barclays is the online banking: the link is https://bank.barclays.co.uk/olb/auth/LoginLink.action. I wonder why, maybe customers won't trust the new extension ? It's not like they didn't have plenty of time to do the migration. It's nearly complete.

Then I visited global.canon, if you click on 'About Canon' most links point to http://www.canon.com/. The journey to .canon didn't last long for me. What's the point really ? To be honest, the migration didn't solve any problem, since they have been using canon.com since 1990.

Again, two sites that hardly anybody visits. They are not taking a chance.
You still go to google.com right ? Then they redirect you to the local extension (unless you're in the US).

They day you go to home.google for your searches, I agree it's going to be something newsworthy.
So far Google are experimenting with different TLDs, including some that they do not own. But there isn't a clear strategy. It looks just like that: experiment. They are using new extensions, but for secondary sites.

I think that there are too many sites on new extensions, that hardly anybody visits. New extensions need to be advertised heavily and used by major websites, otherwise people are not paying attention. If new extensions are used for satellite sites or redirects, people won't take them seriously either. They will regard them as gadgets like the URL shorteners.

Even the pioneer companies don't always display a lot of trust or consistency in their own branding strategy, this I just demonstrated above, using the links that you quoted.

There is not even one website using a new extension, that I visit on a daily basis. What about you ?

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