discuss IF YOU DONT OWN DOT COM YOU DONT HAVE MUCH!

[artstar]

Well after all the hype and hoopla and support ive had over the years trying to support other tlds its now time to admit, IF YOU DONT OWN THE DOT COM YOU DONT HAVE MUCH!

Dot com dot com dot com

No other will do, no other will take its place, no other has its value, no other has a chance against it!!!

I don't care if its now or 20 years from now if you don't own the dot com you are setting yourself up for a loss period end of story!

So to all you newbies, save your $$$$ now and buy or hand reg ONLY dot coms cause if you don't you will find you messed up bigtime!

 

[JB Lions]

I can't find what your saying the site says make offer. Just provide a sale amount, or link.

Not the Top Domain Sales link, the Portfolio link, names are still there, you can check whois and see it changed. The offers didn't come thru the site, you're the only one that visits it. I just told you Sedo and GD.

Your sales?

 

[mad409]

Not the Top Domain Sales Link, the Portfolio link, names are still there, you can check whois and see it changed.

I don't care if it changed hands, I can sale domains all day long for a couple hundred bucks. I want to see a decent sale from you..

 

[JB Lions]

I don't care if it changed hands, I can sale domains all day long for a couple hundred bucks. I want to see a decent sale from you..

I just told 2 domains I sold this week, you told me nothing so far, as expected. I've given you names, you've given nothing. I'll tell you, not major at all, low x,xxx but profit.

Your sales? You've had a few posts now, and nothing. You mentioned some offers in the hundreds earlier, but no sales.

 

[mad409]

Just because you have 2 that sold, I'm sure they were very small sales so you don't want to share any details.

I haven't had any recent sales and have no problem sharing this fact but I've had lots of offers that probably surpass what you've shown me..

 

[JB Lions]

Just because you have 2 that sold, I'm sure they were very small sales so you don't want to share any details.

I haven't had any recent sales and have no problem sharing this fact but I've had lots of offers that probably surpass what you've show me..

Exactly. Nothing. But Newton says one day desi and gdn names will start selling and surpass .com right? I think kohsamui is the only one selling anything with any consistency.

 

[mad409]

Exactly. Nothing. But Newton says one day desi and gdn names will start selling and surpass .com right?

Exactly is right. I could make sales every day and make as much or more than those .com's you've listed but I'm more in long term pattern than a washed up one..

Cute as you may try to be I never said .gdn would surpass .com, or .desi.

You have to admire I almost bought out the entire string of .desi..

 

[JB Lions]

Exactly is right. I could make sales every day and make as much or more those .com's you've listed but I'm more in long term pattern than a washed up one..

Yes, I'm sure people believe you can sell desi and gdn and ooo domains all day long. Every day. You're just not tho. Do you even really believe the stuff you post? You pick the worst extensions out there to put your money in.

You have to admire I almost bought out the entire string of .desi..

Yes, an extension so bad, it's not even listed at Namebio.

 

[mad409]

Yes, I'm sure people believe you can sell desi and gdn and ooo domains all day long. Every day. You're just not tho. Do you even really believe the stuff you post? You pick the worst extensions out there to put your money in.

Coming from a guy that will not share one big sale he's made in .com, go figure that!

 

[TRY]

It's a fact .com out sells new gtlds. Prove me otherwise, you can't.
Maybe someday a new gtld will be an established and credible extension but for now it's mere speculation.
It's a horse race between new gtlds amongst themselves, .com is already at the finish line. Wish everyone the best, Happy 4th of July! Good night.

P.s. I think the best opportunity to get a great name is in cctld's now.

 

[mad409]

Well that does it for me folks, it's been fun interacting with many of you. Hopefully I've been some help here at NP, although many of you know I do state my mind and stand my ground.

After my interaction with @JB Lions, now seeing that he has the ability to edit his quotes in my threads, I always quote him because he edits so much. Now I'm sure he has some type of connection with NP which I don't like, I've thought this before. This can't happen on a normal basis but I've seen it happen tonight. Sure he can edit his posts but not what I quote him on, I do it for a reason.

The quoted reflected domains such as; gettysburgtours.com and weddingonthebeach.com, were he advised they sold for XXXX. I bet they did...

I have no problem with abiding by rules, or being informed when I'm out of line but when threads, documented quotes are missing something isn't on the up and up. No alerts, this took place after I went back and read the threads.

I've also seen threads split up within a matter of minutes because of him, that's not normal either.

Mods please delete my account but give me a few mins. to stop the billing which I'm headed to do right now.

If it walks like a duck and looks like a duck then it's a duck!

Good luck to my fellow domainers and I'll see ya in another forum or might start my own. Best...

 

[doubleU]

Well that does it for me folks, it's been fun interacting with many of you. Hopefully I've been some help here at NP, although many of you know I do state my mind and stand my ground.

After my interaction with @JB Lions, now seeing that he has the ability to edit his quotes in my threads, I always quote him because he edits so much. Now I'm sure he has some type of connection with NP which I don't like, I've thought this before. This can't happen on a normal basis but I've seen it happen tonight. Sure he can edit his posts but not what I quote him on, I do it for a reason.

The quoted reflected domains such as; gettysburgtours.com and weddingonthebeach.com, were he advised they sold for XXXX. I bet they did...

I have no problem with abiding by rules, or being informed when I'm out of line but when threads, documented quotes are missing something isn't on the up and up. No alerts, this took place after I went back and read the threads.

I've also seen threads split up within a matter of minutes because of him, that's not normal either.

Mods please delete my account but give me a few mins. to stop the billing which I'm headed to do right now.

If it walks like a duck and looks like a duck then it's a duck!

Good luck to my fellow domainers and I'll see ya in another forum or might start my own. Best...

Now listen @mad409 think about this for a while, there's a lot of members here don't want you to go !

You currently have 1,754 'likes' that's pretty good considering you are a member for only 2 years, we all have difference of opinion here but that's what make this place great.

There is no other forum to match namePros and any other forum will have similar degree of criticism when it comes to our posts.

It's an open forum with steadfast rules that have evolved for many years to best represent it's members.

So what you say @mad409 , give it another go ?

 

[joro001]

A lot of back and forth here.
For me I own over 90%.com and am still positive about them but..

No doubt the new gtld's coming out by the day cause confusion to end users and will continue to do so.
Premium .coms will be in demand and anything else average/lowish quality in .com is high risk going forward IMO.

I would be long on GTLD's however the registries have done their absolute best to destroy this with crazy renewals and prices on good names (with the occasional exception), meaning the domainer better have huge pockets or accept the registry will make money, the domainer will not.

I have some .online domains such as landscapers.online that I feel work well with the extension and don't mind renewing for a while but unless registries overall change the way they operate I will be buying very few more GTLD's and focussing more and more on .com, .net and .org.

 

[Kate]

...
The technology adoption lifecycle model describes the adoption or acceptance of a new product or innovation, according to the demographic and psychological characteristics of defined adopter groups. The process of adoption over time is typically illustrated as a classical normal distribution or "bell curve". The model indicates that the first group of people to use a new product is called "innovators," followed by "early adopters". Next come the early majority and late majority, and the last group to eventually adopt a product are called "laggards".

New extensions are not innovations or new technology. They work exactly the same as old extensions.

- Where is .COM on this chart?

Nowhere. Your chart is irrelevant to the discussion.

.COM is an illegal extension in China (read on TheDomains.com)

Beaten to death. Even if there was any truth in that, I don't care if China does something stupid. I'm not jumping with them. And I am also buying ccTLDs so what China is doing is not my bigger worry. Buying names that nobody wants is what should worry people.

You're solely placing risk on newly released TLD's but if I'm looking at your site you're fully invested in .com and many types of ccTLDs. It's looks as though you're operating in the same manner as new gTLD investors by holding such a large portfolio and admittedly saying you're only making some low XXX ccTLD sales currently.

I am making $$$ sales, I am making $$$$ sales, sometimes more, it depends.
If you are presently getting $250 offers on your domains, it's not good because you can easily get such offers in .com. New extensions involve more risk and are much harder to sell. The risk/reward ratio has to be worthwhile. Here it isn't imo.

...
The fact that JB thinks that the purchase of misspells and bad grammar is a good sign for the .COM industry is a testament of how little he knows about market cycles (could have fallen victim to the Real Estate Financial Crisis - same concept).

Have you seen the stuff that domainers are buying in new extensions ? Many of those names wouldn't even sell in .com.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

That perfectly applies to new extensions. Something that hasn't worked in the past will supposedly work now on a much larger sale. They call that insanity, doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results.

 

[dordomai]

New extensions are not innovations or new technology. They work exactly the same as old extensions

.name, .tv and .mobi, .info were the innovators. .vip,.xyz and .horse are the followers

They call that insanity, doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results.

In domaining it is defined as registering a worthless domain, dropping it and re-registering it expecting different results. (or buying into launch after launch despite all of them failing so far)

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

If .com is so cool and strong etc. - why so many care about it, what you fear???

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

.TV (Tuvalu ccTLD) is leased by Tuvalu's gov. to Verisign and costs 7-figure for Verisign every year...

 

[dordomai]

I was around in 2000 and the bust was not because the names were not worth it imo. Back then majority of people weren't yet comfortable using credit cards online, the Internet was too slow for anything but text and pictures, google adwords wasn't around, advertisers options to market online was limited, the number of users online was much smaller, etc.

the .com bubble had nothing to with .com domains per se but with startups branding themselves as keyword.com like they still do today.

The bubble was in shares of worthless companies, often with not much more than a domain name.

the stock market crashed because investors weren't paying attention to fundamentals.

Later when everything crashed people assumed that their domains would be worthless and let them drop too.

Had nothing do to with domains.

It don't think that keyword domains are in a bubble, quite the opposite in the past years they haven't been doing so well even before the nGTLD launch.

What we have been reading about bubbles recently was the numeric and short domain bubble. but that is just a niche and not the entire market.

keyword.com aren't selling for that much these days compared to 2007. Quite the opposite of a bubble. They could turn out to be undervalued a few years from now.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

and what if the past was .mobi failing, .co not competing with .com and .travel and .tv going bankrupt? What should I do now as an investor? Repeat the past, or not?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I get $0.001, $00.2, $0.007 and $0.02 revenues; I think they are human...hope so.

Use ParkingCrew...
Their bot-filtering is the best among others.

 

[ZapNano]

Well that does it for me folks, it's been fun interacting with many of you. Hopefully I've been some help here at NP, although many of you know I do state my mind and stand my ground.

After my interaction with @JB Lions, now seeing that he has the ability to edit his quotes in my threads, I always quote him because he edits so much. Now I'm sure he has some type of connection with NP which I don't like, I've thought this before. This can't happen on a normal basis but I've seen it happen tonight. Sure he can edit his posts but not what I quote him on, I do it for a reason.

The quoted reflected domains such as; gettysburgtours.com and weddingonthebeach.com, were he advised they sold for XXXX. I bet they did...

I have no problem with abiding by rules, or being informed when I'm out of line but when threads, documented quotes are missing something isn't on the up and up. No alerts, this took place after I went back and read the threads.

I've also seen threads split up within a matter of minutes because of him, that's not normal either.

Mods please delete my account but give me a few mins. to stop the billing which I'm headed to do right now.

If it walks like a duck and looks like a duck then it's a duck!

Good luck to my fellow domainers and I'll see ya in another forum or might start my own. Best...

Maybe thread gets split up because my post get deleted regardless off topic or topic. I had one deleted again last night. "It said post was deleted, use thanks or likes button"

 

[Chris Rice]

I commented a while back on this thread.

To the OP all I will say is this. You started this thread late Jan 2016 and ever since then prices and demand for more speculative .com/.net etc. in China has fallen like a stone. Could of course be a coincidence but the timing of the long and sustained crash in china started when it did and there's no end in sight almost half a year later. Yes highly liquid 2l/3l.coms are still selling well (even 3l.coms have crashed hard in many cases) but everything else has all but fallen apart.

Whether the OP has merits or not I think everyone is now well aware of the risks of investing in Chinese speculative investments.

Just my two cents, each to their own!

Read the quote above @Brandingtheweb.com and tell me that I'm wrong, again.



Taken from the 1st prediction I made on NamePros:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/china-will-block-coms-for-a-competive-edge.913319/page-27