More .COM propoganda

[Premium gTLD]

The next time you read an article or forum post about how all gTLD's & ccTLD's are bad, and .COM's are good, and always will be, remember this very insightful article on Verisign's efforts to prop up their crumbling monopoly using paid "industry experts"...
http://domainincite.com/19546-pro-com-analyst-sponsored-by-verisign-is-this-a-big-deal
Pro .com analyst sponsored by Verisign, is this a big deal?

Thanks to Domaining.com for the redirect.

 

[loupe]

Agreed, i've expect this from all big corporations. Same as in the medical world btw. They "sponsor" (read: bribe / buy) people to write / publish / research favorable work towards the corporation paying them. If a business has to depend on these tactics to stay alive then usually it won't end well in the long run, especially shareholders might react negatively.

PS: I think also at least 1 person on this forum is not who he seems to be if you look at the huge amount of time spending on anti-new-gtld posts. No one sane in the brain would do that unless paid. There is a good chance this person might react on this thread so stay tuned

 

[asset.domains]

how much cost these articles approx ? i mean paid articles about domains in general ? i think it can be easy to rule the market, you need only 5 key fogures in this field to change prices worldwide.... it is easier than in medical field because You need to get into every country and adapt to local conditions.....

 

[sOliver]

Every monopoly will lobby for its own benefits. I see this everywhere. The worst monopolies are those playing with our life, e.g. food safety (think Nestle), drug costs and safety (think Novartis). They will manipulate studies and go to great lengths to protect their market. I don't care a lot when businesses that supply electronics or luxury goods do that, but I do care a lot when it affects my health, food. So, I think what VeriSign is doing is just business, you have to live with that.

What I find most interesting is how quickly things developed. Now many auction sites are beginning to take gTLDs seriously and that will bring a lot more parties to the table. Namejet is only the beginning.

Anyway, dont ignore COMs completely, they are great for liquidity but for speculation and very good ROIs gTLDs are the way to go now but be sceptical: Only because the Chinese are buying it doesnt mean it has value. Saw the Bitcoin spike? Driven by pure Chinese greed. Same goes for top, link, xyz and all those crappy extensions. They don't have value. XYZ is ok if you want to reg for your own business and you're in the tech sector but other than that pure waste of money, dont go there

 

[RU]

Only because the Chinese are buying it doesnt mean it has value.

agreed

 

[asset.domains]

hmm, @S0liver, great point there again, but imho xyz is better than old ngtld's because it's more logical, just last letters, mean you have the name and the 'tail' ...

 

[jmcc]

What makes this guy such an expert that his opinion is worth anything?

Regards...jmcc

 

[RU]

What makes this guy such an expert that his opinion is worth anything?

Regards...jmcc

What's your opinion about ".COM propoganda" ?

 

[TheWatcher]

This is not a propaganda, IMO this is marketing.

Other gTLDs do this as well, they said they are the best alternative to dot com but you have to pay premium for it.

 

[S-B]

I think .xyz is the best extension out there. I have invested my life savings.

 

[jmcc]

What's your opinion about ".COM propoganda" ?

If one makes any claims or projections, they have to be backed by facts and statistics.

Regards...jmcc

 

[TheWatcher]

I think .xyz is the best extension out there. I have invested my life savings.

I still don't own any .xyz can't even type it right maybe someday.

 

[Recons.Com]

Wow! Does .com need any propaganda? 70-80% of top sales regularly are in .com
I stick to .com, .org, .co, .us, .de, .me, for great keywords or short ones and could not be happier.
I see so many opportunities in those even now that no need to look for any new tlds for me or my clients.

 

[jmcc]

Wow! Does .com need any propaganda?

It needs marketing. The problem for .COM in competition with the new gTLDs is that many of them are, at their core, US events in that the bulk of their registrations come from the US. This means that they are competing for registrations with .COM in the .COM's biggest core market. In some of the country level markets, the .COM has gone legacy and is being overtaken in growth terms by the local ccTLDs. Individually, these country level markets may be somewhat insignificant but taken as a whole, they form a market where .COM is not king. The domain market is actually quite complex at that level.

70-80% of top sales regularly are in .com

Not really suprising given that the domain business is .COM and everything else, for the moment.

Regards...jmcc

 

[5dots]

More choice finally means lower average resale prices. That's the downside.
Upside: Much more investment choices

 

[disaac81]

Domains are no different than other businesses, .com is the cream of the crop and will always be.

However, good that there are other options, it is a market people, there are always going to be options!

 

[RU]

Wow! Does .com need any propaganda? 70-80% of top sales regularly are in .com

I guess ~90% are fake deals.. JMO

 

[Recons.Com]

Why would .com need fake deals? If anything, there are bunch of them that don't go public. At least many mine don't.

 

[disaac81]

Many top sales are actually done with an NDA, so it likely we are not told of many high value dot com sales, at least more so than the same of other gtlds.

 

[JB Lions]

It needs marketing. The problem for .COM in competition with the new gTLDs is that many of them are, at their core, US events in that the bulk of their registrations come from the US. This means that they are competing for registrations with .COM in the .COM's biggest core market. In some of the country level markets, the .COM has gone legacy and is being overtaken in growth terms by the local ccTLDs. Individually, these country level markets may be somewhat insignificant but taken as a whole, they form a market where .COM is not king. The domain market is actually quite complex at that level.

Not really suprising given that the domain business is .COM and everything else, for the moment.

Regards...jmcc

What in the world are you even talking about? Do you have some actual numbers to go with that? Because I just took a look at the top 6 selling new gtlds, using Namestat as a source:

US regs:

.xyz - 11.3%
https://namestat.org/xyz

.top - less than 1%
https://namestat.org/top

.wang - less than 1%
https://namestat.org/wang

.win - 1.7%
https://namestat.org/win

xn--ses554g - less than 1%
https://namestat.org/xn--ses554g

.science - 17.2%
https://namestat.org/science

Most of the time Premium gTLD starts a thread on these, it has something to do with .com. Which will always result in a loss. None of these will touch .com. The other thread you started was about Verisign's budget, you were all excited until someone pointed out it's the same budget they had even before these came out.