Here's a thought experiment: Would you be willing to use a .xyz as your main personal web site url?

[brandnow]

Quick little thought experiment. I'm just curious how many people here would be willing to develop / direct their main personal web site to be a .xyz domain? Say for example, if you owned <firstname>,xyz? Would you be willing to use it or would you continue to wait for something "better," e.g: <firstname>.me, <firstname>.com, etc. Granted, for most first names the .me or .com varient would be out of reach, ridiculously expensive.

I was thinking about this recently because I was wondering how ridiculous or confusing a .xyz personal web site would be or sound to most non-domainers. Like if your .xyz were on your business card or if you were giving it out over the phone to a client or person, do you think in mid-2017 that most people would just be like 'uhhhhh x-y... what?'

Thanks for any responses

 

[atinc]

It was yet another registry sale. Domainers never make sales like these in new extensions, in fact they usually don't have a chance to get those (registry-reserved) keywords unless they pay dearly.
Just saying.
It's important to realize the casino is there and you are here.

It is really interesting how you think it matters, yes it was a registry sale and yes it was a new gTLD that sold for 6 figures.

It really doesn`t matter if its a registry sale or not, what matters is an investor saw a 6 figure value on a new gTLD.

Here the truth.

Domainers, if lucky, will sell the registries scraps for 3 figures.

A 200k sale with a newG, for domainers, is and will remain only a dream.

@mpls how come a 3 figure domain can be Premium, I don`t understand that.

On your signature you are selling new gTLDs with .club extension and you call them Premiums.

Than you say here is the truth they won`t worth more than 3 figures cause they are new gTLDs?

Thats funny.

Remember saying that when an investor hits up 200K> sale

 

[dordomai]

it is a well known fact that the nGTLD program is mostly dead. There will always be a few outliers (see sex.xxx for example) but as a whole nGTLDs will turn out to be poor investment vehicles for most investors. new extensions can perform for a few years and die a slow death only to be replaced by a newly launched 'hot' extension.

they do not produce lasting value.. the life cycle for newly launched extensions is as follows:

1. Hype Stage (We will replace .com)
2. Decline/Denial Stage (It takes time to become big)
3. Zombie Stage (Let's not talk about our losses)

After the zombie stage, new extensions are launched and new investors are suckered in buying into the next big thing.

We are now in stage 2.

 

[atinc]

it is a well known fact that the nGTLD program is mostly dead. There will always be a few outliers (see sex.xxx for example) but as a whole nGTLDs will turn out to be poor investment vehicles for most investors. new extensions can perform for a few years and die a slow death only to be replaced by a newly launched 'hot' extension.

I don`t understand this new gTLD vs com competition at all.

There are millions of .coms drops each week, millions. But so what?

It doesn`t mean that you will hit a million dollar sale if you own an extension(com or new G). What is important is the quality of your domain.

Another great example of a new gTLD sale: sex.xxx sold for 3 Million Dollars.

Thanks.

 

[dordomai]

I don`t understand this new gTLD vs com competition at all.

There are millions of .coms drops each week, millions. But so what?

It doesn`t mean that you will hit a million dollar sale if you own an extension(com or new G). What is important is the quality of your domain.

Another great example of a new gTLD sale: sex.xxx sold for 3 Million Dollars.

Thanks.

Not sure what you mean. 7 figures .com sales are rare but not uncommon. 7 figure nGTLD sales are extremely rare, only 1 reported so far and they should be always registry sales.

Chances of a .com domainer making a 7 figure sale low but not entirely improbable. 7 figure nGTLD sale, once in a decade event maybe if it ever happens.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

More interesting is what Renewal fee per this casino.online
Renewal and regfee for Premiums in this TLD are usually equal...

 

[dgmweb]

Most likely not. I'm not averse to it, but I already have Donnie.io.

However I'm developing a community site on an .xyz for customers of one of my businesses and I think it's a nice combo.

 

[Domains - Wanted]

Quick little thought experiment. I'm just curious how many people here would be willing to develop / direct their main personal web site to be a .xyz domain?

No way!
Time machine back to the 1990's to register your family name in .COM or nothin'