Rick Schwartz may not be to everyones taste but I think he sums-up everything nicely in his post in response to the recent high-value supposed ntld sales and unfortunately the same logic is likely to continue at all levels
Rick Schwartz says
15th april 2018
A lot of these companies have an interesting relationship with the truth and/or proof. These folks have been BS’ing us for many years for their own self absorbed financial interests at the expense of GULLIBLE domainers! Believe NOTHING!
Notice that very few domainers have ANY GTLD sales after how many years and 30 million registrations? Almost every sale is either a direct registry sale or a registry ordered auction. Some with questionable results.
They all wanted the same result as .com but these companies clawed back every possibly value combination they could think of. MANY after a DOMAINER actually registered the domain and the registry decided it was too valuable and clawed it back after the fact. After it was bought and paid for. DISGUSTING PRACTICE! These companies have no honor. If they make a mistake, YOU, the domainer are always the ones getting screwed. And even so, when combined they still sell very few!
They all want to be .com and not ONE has copied the .com playbook. Good luck with that. The only ones they are fooling are domainer wannabees and fools.
In time, these worthless gtld domains will just be redirected to a REAL .COM domain name! Just look at the history! They FAIL each and every time! GTLD’s should come with a warning label! Caution, you might lose MOST of your traffic to the .com counterpart. You may be building someone else’s business instead of your own!
Meanwhile what percentage of these reported sales are truly genuine? And genuine means, $$$ changed hands and if there were any other perks, ad dollars or ANY OTHER consideration, rebate, refund etc included in the deal that was not reported.
GTLD’s are an unwanted, unneeded product with virtually no market other than foolish domainers looking for the second coming and going broke! SAD!
