poll Is there a future for new GTLDs?

[Leo Angelo]

I was surprised to learn today that a non-domainer friend migrated his website to the same name .blog because "for a blog, .blog makes more sense than .com." What about the renewal fee? "$29/yr. Not enough to be a deterrent."
He is an intelligent person who appreciates using the best and the fewest words. Using the self-explanatory TLD makes sense and is worth the extra money, in his opinion.
Maybe the new GLTDs are making inroads with public awareness and will keep gaining market share. What do you think, how do you feel about it?

 

[tonyk2000]

A cheap .XYZ or whatever might be the most cost efficient way for people to get their business online.

Yes, or whatever... In many non-U.S. cases it converts to their country code tld. Which is something a lot of new gtld operators do not think about, as a matter of fact

 

[offthehandle]

https://twitter.com/DomainKing/status/1120283219323162624

 

[offthehandle]

Yes.

Thanks. Would be nice to know who these end users with websites are, then separate out how many redirect to their real company name in a .Com or .ccTLD.

Travel .agency (flipped and now parked sold a couple year ago), home .loans, are large dollar sales of a couple with publicity on this forum.

Here is Rick's recent comments:

https://twitter.com/DomainKing/status/1122135606392426496

 

[Bob Hawkes]

The NGTs are a set of generic TLDs, domain hacks and geographical/regional gTLDs. The only thing they have in common is that they are gTLDs.

^^^ This!
I think it is unfortunate that we all lump together the ngTLDs since they have very different natures and roles. Also I think that regional differences in use and perception will continue to be pronounced in most of these.

@jmcc Thank you so much for the data. If a site has content but is configured so that someone who goes to the http is sent to https, does it just get counted as https redirect or as content site?

Bob

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Forbidden response is not rare even for real users...
I get it periodically on various websites where Ukrainian IP ranges are banned by some idiotic software/firewalls...

 

[tonyk2000]

Ukrainian IP

I wanted to ban all mobile 4g UA providers once (by AS), as many bots are run from these IPs, but decided not to... humans (or potential humans) should not be banned under any circumstances. I even allow all Chinese visitors, even though they rarely buy...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

My internet connection is wired (Eth), not mobile...
But I get such response for many years... this was even before 3G.

 

[lambo.com]

I was surprised to learn today that a non-domainer friend migrated his website to the same name .blog because "for a blog, .blog makes more sense than .com." What about the renewal fee? "$29/yr. Not enough to be a deterrent."
He is an intelligent person who appreciates using the best and the fewest words. Using the self-explanatory TLD makes sense and is worth the extra money, in his opinion.
Maybe the new GLTDs are making inroads with public awareness and will keep gaining market share. What do you think, how do you feel about it?

ngtlds have their place, like a house in a shanty town does in the world.

Not all ngtlds are the same so you have some that are like luxury homes.. But they are still in the ghetto

 

[GenericDomainz]

Best new gTLD domains, let there should be 10.000 such domains in world , will always have future, at least next 5 years...