new gtlds New gTLD development analysis and train wreck

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They can be the best thing since sliced bread for everyone else but if they’re not good enough as investments for domainers, then I’m sorry but I won’t recommend them. I just won’t because at the end of the day, my readers are interested in one thing and one thing only: investing in domains.

at the beginning of the new gTLD program, there was some reseller market activity… things however slowed down considerably, with the notable exception represented by the Chinese short domain surge in certain extensions (.Top, .XYZ and a couple others); the reseller market for keyword new gTLDs has been dead even during the Chinese surge and right now… well, it would be the understatement of the century to say things slowed down: there’s just waaaaaaaay too much supply and not enough demand

domainers underestimated the burden of renewal fees, it’s perhaps the most common mistake in domaining; before new gTLD appeared, lots of people (including yours truly) did this with dot coms and legacy TLDs… I guess the temptation of ridiculously high returns is hard to resist...

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