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?

 

[dotappguy]

you guys do realize that 80% of the world isn't connected to the internet. As technology penetration increases, so will the demands for digital real estate.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

As of today, I sold 10 nTLD domains to endusers...
~$1K per domain on average.

Buyers from the following countries:
Australia
India
Philippines
Germany (2 domains)
Russia (2 domains)
USA (3 domains)

 

[johnnie018]

you guys do realize that 80% of the world isn't connected to the internet. As technology penetration increases, so will the demands for digital real estate.

Hope people in Ethiopia buy your .app? How about people with antenna in ghetto?

Stat wrong also, now only 40% not online.

 

[dotappguy]

Hope people in Ethiopia buy your .app? How about people with antenna in ghetto?

Stat wrong also, now only 40% not online.

the people in the ghetto will be connecting to .app domains through my service satellite.app

 

[dotappguy]

people in the ghetto will also be buying and selling electricity from electricity.app

 

[dotappguy]

people in the ghetto will get to engage in governance services with governance.app

 

[dotappguy]

people in the ghetto will be able to authenticate goods with authentication.app

 

[dotappguy]

people in the ghetto will get to participate in voting with consensus.app

 

[dotappguy]

people in the ghetto will be able to buy and sell goods with merchant.app

 

[dotappguy]

people in the ghetto will be able to exchange their mobile money with africash.app

 

[dotappguy]

need i say more?

 

[johnnie018]

need i say more?

Please say less! You flood forum with trash names.

 

[phptechie]

It will take years together to replace .COM with new gtlds I would say.

Still the end users / internet users / people from all walks of life perceive that .COM extension is the internet address for any website.

It will take time for them to learn that the other available tlds , only when the mass users get used to these new tlds , the demand will increase hence the price.

Again , this is just an theory , because owners who own new gtlds have to hold onto their domains until it picks up momentum.

God knows what might happen in future , because things can change in future , the internet mechanism might itself get changed due course.

Entry of smartphones disrupted the normal mobile phones with dial pads .
Smartphones also paved way for mobile apps.
Something in this line might change how internet & websites are accessed , which in turn will change the domain names / extensions that we use today

 

[Eric the Car Guy]

A quick Google search for "how much of the worlds population is online" and currently most of the results say it's closer to 50/50....a quick estimate of several of the results...still HUGE room for growth=value increase for ALL domains whether it be .com...or a ngtld...everybody wins!!!

 

[johnnie018]

A quick Google search for "how much of the worlds population is online" and currently most of the results say it's closer to 50/50....a quick estimate of several of the results...still HUGE room for growth=value increase for ALL domains whether it be .com...or a ngtld...everybody wins!!!

60% and almost all of developed world. All left is half of the third world and old people in developed world, mostly people with no money. May top out at 80-90%. This why domain numbers barely growing. Saturate.

Be accurate if you want to take money, believing fake stats like only 20% penetration is bad idea.

 

[MapleDots]

Is it even politically correct to call it a ghetto nowadays?

I would say financially challenged neighborhoods.

As far as the new gTLD's replacing .com @phptechie that will never happen because .com set the standard. Now what will happen is that the entire domain scenario gets replaced with voice commands.

Just say "Go to Apple" and your device will know you like technology and take to to apple's website. It does not matter what the address is because chances are the address bar has long since disappeared.

This entire conversation is pointless because it is the elimination of the domain extensions themselves that threaten .com's. Nothing else will dethrone the king other than the fact that we no longer have a king and whatever the new technology looks like the voice will probably be the instrument to control it.

With mobile devices taking over the screen sizes are limited and an address bar is wasted space. It's a question of time before ANY domain extension becomes redundant and will no longer be a point of discussion.

I even see the phone number becoming more important again as google is already linking services like duo to the phone number and email addresses are becoming less important. So if email is becoming less important then domains cannot be that far behind.

Change is on the horizon, I cannot say exactly what but if I were a betting man I would say the last stronghold domains will have the longest life expectancy with the new gTLD's probably being the first casualties.

Think about it.... why do we need a dot at all?

Green Hat . Associates

Why not just say Green Hat Associates?
That dot will become less and less important as technology moves forward with voice control.

 

[tonyk2000]

Dot app? It is run by google, isn't it? So... Each day more and more people realize that this particular company should not be trusted. And are trying to avoid it as much as they can ("ungoogled chrome"... non-android smartphones... "DuckDuckGo The search engine that doesn't track you" etc, etc, etc). Which means less trust to anything google offers, including .app extension

 

[HotKey]

Is there a future for new GTLDs?

Of course there will be. And the future is now, it is just not happening on a such large or quick enough scale for people to stand and take notice. It will be one of those processions that one day, we'll all be like.. "holy crap, when did this sneak up on us??" and we'll be virtually surrounded by new G usage everywhere.

I think though, the real question is, is there a future for new GTLD investing? Because this is where the waters are murky, and one must tread with precautions in place.

 

[JayT]

Most sensible people biased to .com!!

When you walk into phone shop are you biased to Apple or Nokia? You are wishful thinking and putting new tld on equal pedestal to .com, you will lose your shirt because these extensions are dirt! Look around you, walk on the street, do you see new tld? Grandmas know what most new tld investors still haven't learnt!

@johnnie018 is full of it. He is bashing newtld at every chance. Now he's wasting our time with presumably FAKE WTB newtld to try trolling us: https://www.namepros.com/threads/new-tld-domains-wanted.1134017/ Don't trust this snake!

 

[jmcc]

The biggest point about the new gTLD's is not the renewal price. Most successful entities or businesses will spend money on a decent domain.

The BIG problem I see here is basing my business on one of the new gTLD's only to have it shut down in the future.

There is a procedure for gTLDs that fail (Emergency Backend Registry Operator/ EBERO) where another registry can take over the operation of a gTLD where the registry has issues.

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/ebero-2013-04-02-en

Regards...jmcc