New TLD's useless here is why

[idomainappraisal]

OK first I'm a .com is king kind of guy

Second, the O.co disaster proved anything but .com lost over 50% of public in trying to brand a tld outside of .com

Yet, after seeing a .dating name I thought, hmmm, that can't be bad for a dating site

So I start to check .dating keywords and stumble across .love

Got a killer LOVE word for .LOVE

So the usual production begins

Host site
Install wordpress
Install plugins
Get all the social media accounts ready
Do some custom work on what needs to happen

Bingo site is ready to launch after we do what we would charge 50K to 200K for

Try to get a cloud app for less

So I test the url to a person I know to test

GUESS WHAT android doesn't consider it a tld

LOVE

So zero chance it can go viral now, since anyone that sends the url to a friend via text which is huge in doing viral net promotion, well the links to the sites won't work

So if you are still drinking the .tld cool aid think about that now

You put 5 Million into TV or Radio and everyone goes to the .com
You can't get one person from a text link since the tld is not recognized by google for android

That's why .com is KING

I can't believe I wasted some time with a .love TLD

Anyone else notice their great keywords.tld are not clickable in a text?

haha

Just more reason to sing .COM IS KING

Some of the dead tld's so far I found

.mom
.estate
.dating
.love

CC tld's are of course clickable

.co is clickable
old tld's are too
.biz
.mobi

.pro is clickable that's a good sign

 

[Domains - Wanted]

nothing works in sms

www.whatever.tld
http://whatever.tld

It's a MAJOR FLAW that no one is discussing yet

It's not a flaw. SMS = short text message, hence only text with no markup/links.

 

[idomainappraisal]

It's not a flaw. SMS = short text message, hence only text with no markup/links.

the flaw is real, old android phones do not recognize any of the new tlds for text links with http https www or anything

but those phones are only older phones so new android phones recognize the new tld's

 

[idomainappraisal]

.com is king .

for one reason, the public is .com centered, you try to use TV or Radio or whatever for marketing and if you don't have .com they use it anyway

so any old school media by any tld other than .com benefits the king

I would say 80% of my clients when I say go to this url, open up google and search for the url, they are completely ignorant of the url box on their browsers

so we have a lot of morons on 'smart phones' and if its not an app they got a kid to load on their phone they're clueless at moving around the net

now younger people are way more literate about how to move around the net, but over 40, the world is full of tech dummies using idiot phones

 

[gtldomainer]

Just the way, people in the new markets thought Facebook is the internet till sometime ago, most of the people, new market or matured market, imply websites mean .COM. Only few know there is .NET or .ORG or .CO, let alone .click or .dating or .whatever.

With that said, I don't think, new gtlds are dead; they'll take many years to mature as .COM has evolved. What we'll witness is new gtlds fighting for their survival and the best ones being adopted by larger market eventually. That could mean 5 to 10 to 20 years from now. my 2 cents.

 

[dumindu89]

The biggest issue with new TLDs is higher pricing and premium pricing. It kills the buying power of buyers and it's hard to renew too.

That's why .COM, .NET and .ORG still leading. Whatever the name you can buy it around $0.99-$15 while most of new TLDs priced beyond $15.

That's why .XYZ TLD leads the newTLD pool which has no real meaning, .TOP in the second place and another useless extension; .win in third place. Same for the .loan extension. I can't find any reason other than the price to lead these domains in the newTLD registrations pool. All three extensions can be purchased below $10.

Still premium names are valued at much more higher values for these newTLDs too. No one buying that domains because of that.

 

[Mr Dobalina]

Type ins are dropping fast. The new gees are for vanity purposes mainly. Start typing logan.movie into chrome and it will auto fill or be the first suggestion. Although it forwards to Fox movies .com lol... I don't click links in texts anyway and for security reasons I would suggest everyone be careful about links in texts or emails. This is a non issue for me.