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?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Most nTLDs are served by Donuts...
I don't see any reasons why Donuts should fail...

But domainer segment will be shortened definitely:

Donuts will be increasing pricing on standard domains for 225 TLDs in their portfolio on October 1, 2019. This will impact both available and registered standard price domain names. There will be no impact to premium domain tiers at this time.

 

[garptrader]

Going for a walk this morning I noticed a car parked downtown which had been decorated to promote a local business (not sure how much this tactic costs but I have seen a number of businesses try this - could get expensive if they don't have someone feeding the meters every couple hours as parking tickets are about $25). Checking out the name I noticed it was a .solutions but as has been the case with most of the small businesses I have seen using the newer extensions, an obvious reg fee.

To-cleaning.solutions

Wow! So does that domain name inspire you to contract their services?

 

[Bob Hawkes]

I have seen using the newer extensions, an obvious reg fee.
To-cleaning.solutions
Wow! So does that domain name inspire you to contract their services?

I think it is illustrative of the fact that the vast majority of small local businesses are currently choosing a handreg rather than consider purchasing a better domain name (or actually most of them are not even getting a domain name, but using Wix or similar or even a FB page). That is the challenge for our industry, to find a price point and service model where they will consider aftermarket at prices that still make sense for domainers.

In this particular case it does not resonate with me (although to cleaning does have sense). The company name is T&O Cleaning Solutions, so they mean the front to I assume as TO. The name is available without hyphen as hand register, so I presume they deliberately did not like the look without a hyphen.

By the way they previously were on TO-cleaning.com and at least currently they are using that for email although they seem to be using the solutions as their main web presence (it does not redirect to the .com).

Bob

 

[GenericDomainz]

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