new gtlds It's Official no growth last 4 months in newGTLDs

[betthelot]

What's next. No growth in nGTLDs in the LAST 4 months, didn't even reach 30million. 30million was what ICANN budgeted for nGTLDs to be registered at the end of 2014
On any measure it's been disappointing
The question is what's next for the nGTLDs, do they go into the wilderness never to been known by the general public or is there only worth is to be used for scams and phishing emailing; and only to be known for ill intent.
One thing is for sure its RIP for domain investors in nGTLDs.
It's a blood bath out there....

 

[jmcc]

At this point .COM is the leader on any objective metric - registrations, usage, sales, etc.
That is not faith, that is reality.

Brad

There are better performing TLDs on usage and renewal rates, Brad. On registration volume, .COM is the key player though. That's unlikely to change much. The influx of Chinese market domains in .COM is driving down usage and it has already hit renewal rates.

Regards...jmcc

 

[Premiums]

so.. is com still king?!

 

[jmcc]

so.. is com still king?!

Yes. But the world is becoming republican rather than monarchical.

Regards...jmcc

 

[GoKaizen]

27 million and dropping.