information How New Domains Are Bettering Brands

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New domain extensions have accumulated some pretty big numbers over the last couple of years. Collective registrations for the new GTLDs (generic top-level domains) have now surpassed 13 million, according to NTLD stats. This number is not small by any means. Comparably speaking, this represents just over 10 percent of total .com registrations, more than 50 percent of the total .net registrations and 30 percent more than total .org registrations.

While these numbers may not be a surprise to some, they certainly prove the Not-Com revolution (a term coined by Jeff Davidoff, CMO of Donuts, and the largest applicant for new domain-name extensions) is certainly making waves...

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[bytedo]

Not blindly against these ngtlds but I just have been doing a namebio search of some 7 ngtlds to see which ones to buy, hold and hope for, not very promising I'm afraid.

 

[otismo]

Perpetual sales bringing reg fees down. Only 2,000,000 names per .ext worth owning. Slowly eroding .com over time. The real competition for .com is .ll country codes getting bigger and bigger %%% every day. But users have been conditioned to type in .com - and only one Really Big emerging trend is going to put an end to it.

 

[Kate]

13 million domains, but most are bought by speculators and chancers, the registries themselves, or outfits that are offshots of the same registries, not the mention the freebies and the zone stuffing.
A more relevant stat would be the number of domains developed and put to good use by bona fide end users. The stats sure would be less rosy.

 

[DNScholar]

Apart from discussion on ntlds some of the points which mentioned in the article is generic and true for all extensions.

 

[newviewit]

.com will always be #1 in the US market and the top choice worldwide as shown by China. Country codes will be a close second in some countries..

There might be a few new tld out there but most end users don't know that xxx.travel is actually a website. Any end user would be facing an uphill battle marketing and educating consumers with these new tld. As mentioned before, most are owned by domain speculators with very few actually built out... don't see this changing anytime soon.

 

[Kiko]

.com definetly will be precious, but new gTLDs are here to stay, and they do have a lot of potential, a lot of them will take years to really develop, but the .com will still be a unique neighborhood, more for transnational corporations, it will almost be compulsory for them to have their name in a .com, and also having their own gTLD..
there will be a lot of confusion and trademark infringement, .com will profit from these problems,but also will be affected..if you take a unique word, example, I'm the owner of lala.com, and someone creates lala.shoes, most likely they'll visit lala.com first, but it will take a potential product that my word can be market for,..so the first pages of the phonebook is .com, all the rest of the pages are the TLDs, but there are TLDS that have a huge clip in the phonebook like abc.xyz

 

[disaac81]

Not really making waves at all. So what if thousands of new gtlds have millions of domains registered, it really means nothing.

Fact is, news like this is generic splurge and has no real use apart from the promotion of gtlds.