M+M renewals way down

[DaveX]

Just read an article today. Pretty dismal for these extensions:

.Rodeo lost a staggering 60% of its domain registrations losing 1,256 domains; down to only 824.

.Country lost over 40% of its domain registrations losing 1,135 domains; down to 1,505.

.Vodka lost almost 40% of its domain registration losing 1,206 domains; down to 1,972.

.Horse lost over 36% of its domain registrations losing 1,492 domains; down to 2,656

.Garden lost 34% of its domain registrations losing 1,039 domains; down to 1,980.

.Fishing lost over 30% of its domain registrations losing 864 domains; down to 1,873.

.Cooking lost 0ver 30% of its domain registrations losing 1,052 domains; down to 2,106.

.Surf lost around 30% of its domain registrations losing 1,081 domains; down to just 2,687.

.Yoga lost 16% of it’s domain registrations losing 1,288 domains; down to 6,610

.Beer lost just under 16% of its domain registrations; losing 1,992 domains, just over 10,600

.Fit lost 14% of its domain registrations yesterday losing 1,348 domains, down to 8,104

.Wedding lost 12% of its domain registrations yesterday losing 947 domains; down to 6,737

.Casa loses 6% of its domain registrations yesterday losing 1,139 domains; down to 17,710

Read the full article here:
http://www.thedomains.com/2016/09/1...y-bad-day-losing-30-registrations-13-strings/

 

[loredan]

M+M is the perfect example of a company with huge pockets and not so huge brains.

How can you blow so much money for such useless extensions? vodka, rodeo, horse, cooking, beer, fishing? really?

 

[DaveX]

M+M is the perfect example of a company with huge pockets and not so huge brains.

How can you blow so much money for such useless extensions? vodka, rodeo, horse, cooking, beer, fishing? really?

I really don't get it. They should be experts. I think most in this NP community could make better decisions and have a better pulse of the market. With those extensions, I think they are fooling themselves.

Did you catch the part where they showed how many are still registered. There are domainers with more names than all those put together.

 

[loredan]

I'm really curious how their business meetings went prior to decide what extensions to buy. Should have been sort of:

Hey, I know for a fact that there are 50 million horses worldwide!
Wow, cool! Every horse deserve its own domain so we have 50 mil potential buyers!

or...

There are over 100 million vodka consumers worldwide!
Cool, that's a goldmine! Let's buy .vodka !

I bet they also paid at least 5 figure to various companies for market research to come up with this .crap

 

[DaveX]

I'm really curious how their business meetings went prior to decide what extensions to buy. Should have been sort of:

Hey, I know for a fact that there are 50 million horses worldwide!
Wow, cool! Every horse deserve its own domain so we have 50 mil potential buyers!

or...

There are over 100 million vodka consumers worldwide!
Cool, that's a goldmine! Let's buy .vodka !

I bet they also paid at least 5 figure to various companies for market research to come up with this .crap

I just don't get it. Crazy

 

[NamePrime]

I'm really curious how their business meetings went prior to decide what extensions to buy. Should have been sort of:

Hey, I know for a fact that there are 50 million horses worldwide!
Wow, cool! Every horse deserve its own domain so we have 50 mil potential buyers!

or...

There are over 100 million vodka consumers worldwide!
Cool, that's a goldmine! Let's buy .vodka !

I bet they also paid at least 5 figure to various companies for market research to come up with this .crap

Or just one guy talking and trying to convince himself

 

[loredan]

Or just one guy talking and trying to convince himself

LOL nice one

 

[DaveX]

They say people invest in domains based on what they are thinking about. Let's take a look.....

I was at the .Rodeo out in the .Country drinking .Vodka when a .Horse came out of the .Garden after a long day of .Fishing. I asked him to start .Cooking some .Surf and turf. while I have a cold .Beer and he had a .Fit, called off the .Wedding and asked me to find a new .Casa

There, I used all of them. Most use those extensions will probably get.

 

[DomainVP]

I really don't get it. They should be experts. I think most in this NP community could make better decisions and have a better pulse of the market. With those extensions, I think they are fooling themselves.

Many smart companies are already consulting domainers about their domain strategies. I've seen a few in-house jobs w/ media companies that were looking for people w/ skills you would expect a digital investor to have.

 

[DaveX]

Many smart companies are already consulting domainers about their domain strategies. I've seen a few in-house jobs w/ media companies that were looking for people w/ skills you would expect a digital investor to have.

There should be a job board here on NP.

 

[GoKaizen]

Ntld employees future.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/th...hat-will-happen-to-new-gtld-investors.971597/

 

[Kate]

Millions of domains have yet to drop.

 

[dordomai]

The.end ?

 

[dordomai]

M+M is the perfect example of a company with huge pockets and not so huge brains.

How can you blow so much money for such useless extensions? vodka, rodeo, horse, cooking, beer, fishing? really?

being overly confident can lead to poor decision making.

 

[dordomai]

.rip ?

https://namestat.org/s/newgtld-summary

losses

118 flowers 16,415 -9249 527
1 xyz 6,189,143 -5042 836
302 tattoo 3,696 -3736 933
100 sexy 18,634 -3572 933
20 date 160,071 -3487 442
180 blackfriday 8,835 -3218 800
62 property 38,020 -3166 660
91 audio 21,329 -2796 743
250 hiphop 5,274 -2094 743
142 christmas 13,039 -2069 800
79 photo 25,704 -1970 884
81 gift 24,997 -1820 884
116 pics 16,620 -1288 884
131 hosting 14,362 -1070 660
117 diet 16,581 -1057 660
57 cricket 42,274 -1047

gains

8 vip 411,820 98900 121
7 bid 417,546 8852 829
2 top 3,541,654 3215 668
15 gdn 234,232 1951 193
13 loan 269,709 1531 407
9 online 391,395 1337 386
4 win 1,022,028 1296 407
11 ren 314,537 1001 736
5 club 791,203 880 862
43 faith 55,128 799 442
17 tech 200,529 704 407
22 click 120,147 690 660
18 website 167,076 511

Keep in mind that the extensions with huge gains are largely financed by promotions and speculators.

 

[dordomai]

https://namestat.org/rodeo

At this point rodeo has 824 registrations with a $20 retail renewal fee.

According to this this it will bring in less than 2k in revenue per month. The application fee was $200k and the yearly ICANN fee 25k.

This one must be losing money and many others will probably too. I wonder how many losing extensions will be kept alive despite not being profitable.

At this point they can't just shut them down because there would be many disgruntled end-users and complaints.

Once the word gets out that the new extensions can be shut-down no one will want to develop them.

If they want to be perceived as reliable they need to keep them alive even if they lose money doing it.

If many extensions were to be shut-down, I predict that would be the end of the program. No one wants to develop extensions that might not be around a few years later.

 

[GoKaizen]

Yup!

Millions of domains have yet to drop.

Makes people that know not want to build on new Gs. I doubt successful extensions will cover MMX loses.

https://namestat.org/rodeo

At this point rodeo has 824 registrations with a $20 retail renewal fee.

According to this this it will bring in less than 2k in revenue per month. The application fee was $200k and the yearly ICANN fee 25k.

This one must be losing money and many others will probably too. I wonder how many losing extensions will be kept alive despite not being profitable.

At this point they can't just shut them down because there would be many disgruntled end-users and complaints.

Once the word gets out that the new extensions can be shut-down no one will want to develop them.

If they want to be perceived as reliable they need to keep them alive even if they lose money doing it.

If many extensions were to be shut-down, I predict that would be the end of the program. No one wants to develop extensions that might not be around a few years later.