new gtlds New gTLDs are DEAD!! Frank Schilling drops 230,000 new gTLD domains

[ksusha64]

Mike Berkens wrote a great article:

Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Starts Deleting Its 230,000 Uniregistry Domains
http://www.thedomains.com/2016/09/1...arts-deleting-its-230000-uniregistry-domains/

Guy who's pushing new gtlds giving up on it? How many names u guys dropped? Anyone still believes in it?

 

[-EM-]

Thanks. Recently my latest sales ads.guru posted on namebio.

cax.com is still alive? That's wired.

 

[GoKaizen]

.LINK from NameStat

https://www.namepros.com/threads/sharing-tracking-new-gtld-drops-thoughts.1025701/#post-6324481

 

[ArabExplorer]

Honestly, if they're dead, I don't mind having them pushed into my account for free

 

[lock]

Everyone culls the herd now and then.

 

[amirp]

ya it is bad. dont buy, send me the list

 

[jmcc]

.LINK from NameStat

The problem with a lot of the discounted gTLDs is that they are full of gambling/adult affiliate landing pages and very little content. The danger is that some of them are so locked into a discounting model to drive registrations that it has created a Boom and Bust cycle in their registrations and most of the registrations do not renew.

Regards...jmcc

 

[GoKaizen]

Yes, the problem.

http://www.hosterstats.com/link-website-usage-survey.php

The problem

Remember?

"I own no .mobi names. If it were possible to own a negative number of domain names to further distance yourself from the name space, I would probably own “negative thousands”

-Frank Schilling

http://www.domainbits.com/mobi/

The truth.

“Just like any other private business starting up, all these new TLDs will have a 50 per cent chance of going out of business in two or three years,” Holland says. “That’s going to be somewhat disquieting to people.”

-Byron Holland

http://www.itbusiness.ca/news/half-of-all-new-top-level-domains-will-fail-cira-says/17782

 

[jmcc]

Yes, the problem.

http://www.hosterstats.com/link-website-usage-survey.php



Remember?

From this month's statistical survey of .LINK domains:
Category | Percentage
| Active/unclassified | 6.4418 |
| Affiliate Landing Page | 6.0818 |

And the data is still being crunched.

The .LINK gTLD is not the worst. It has over 100K registrations. There are some gTLDs with less than 1% Active/unclassified.

Regards...jmcc