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What do you think? Based on Rick's tweets, I believe he is referring to new gTLDs.
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Heavily discounted registrations and robot registrations. They aren't genuine "loan" registrations.Why .loan has almost 2MM regs? It is such a niche area, there are probably 20 times less companies around the world in the industry and even then they don't use "loan" in their name or identification )
No. Most of them are trying to create their own specialised niche rather than compete with .COM as a whole. The only real "generic" is .XYZ and far from competing with .COM, it has become the new gTLDs programme's .INFO. It has large registration volume but it also has a similar boom and bust registration cycle.So let me get this straight. There are a whole lot of new extensions that come to the marketplace to compete with dot com essentially.
Not a good comparison because XYZ is generic whereas XXX is specific.Some of those domains will become premium while most of those domains in the new extensions will fail. Take sex.com and sex.xxx or sex.xyz
There's an emergency procedure for failing new gTLDs. There are portfolio registry operators who own portfolios of new gTLDs and they may purchase new gTLDs that have failed to meet expectations. It has already happened. What most domainers don't understand is that once the debt issue on one of these gTLDs is resolved or reduced, there's a set of registrations that keeps renewing each year and provides an easy revenue stream. The biggest killer for some gTLDs isn't actually operations but rather marketing. Without marketing, there's no awareness.Now my question! If dot xxx and dot xyz start to falter and want to pack it in, what happens to sex.xxx?
It may be a firesale candidate if it falters but a registry can still operate with 50K or so high priced registrations and steady renewals. What is worrying with some new gTLDs is the renewal rate and multi-year registrations and renewals. But not all new gTLDs have these problems. Some have much better renewal rates than COM.If dot xxx is faltering does that mean that sex.xxx falters also?
You've got to be very careful about these Brave New World kind of articles becuase the journalists writing them are rarely techies and rarely have a Tech background. They are likely to recycle the latest but of PR fluff or press release in order to get paid for an article. The mainstream media tends to be the worst in this respect. Google has been doing a rather good job of making its own new gTLDs invisible but I think that's down to a complete lack of a clue.@nomen
I remember reading a tech article that said google is trying to do away with domain addresses and the URL bar. It said you simply type the business name into the search bar. That has now changed to speech making the article even more relevant.
How do you know? The .COM is seen by domainers as a single TLD. It is not. It is actually a small global TLD and a large set of country level TLDs rolled into one. This is actually how most TLDs operate. They have a kind of domain name geography. What may appear to be a junk registration may have the same domain name registered in a ccTLD.Well .. to be honest .. after all my long posts saying you can't blanket dismiss ALL tld's nor group them all together as one category .. I will also openly admit to another fact .. lol:
Most of the currently registered non-com's are complete garbage that never should have been registered in the first place.
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Most of the currently registered com's are complete garbage that never should have been registered in the first place.
Interestingly ... there are far more garbage .com's in existence than all combined ngTLD that even exist to date! lol
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I remember reading a tech article that said google is trying to do away with domain addresses and the URL bar. It said you simply type the business name into the search bar. That has now changed to speech making the article even more relevant.
I wish I could remember where I saw it. At the time it had me a bit worried and as more time passes I am realizing that it is probably inevitable this happens. Hopefully not anytime soon, like everyone here I have too much invested but it is food for thought.
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I remember reading a tech article that said google is trying to do away with domain addresses and the URL bar. It said you simply type the business name into the search bar.
These are the most popular domain names across over 1200 TLDs for the letter 'a' from May's data by descending popularity.what happens if the business name is used by more than 1 entity?
only the meaningless weak ones like xyz, com and insanely overpriced renewals like .blog
the good meaningful and reasonably priced gtlds are being traded, launched and advertised in your face
google.ai isn't going to be replaced with googleai.com anytime soon hahahaha
.com cartel et. al. have an agenda to prop up their pyramid scheme but even pharoahs die
in the meantime i'll enjoy watching the pyramid collapse (or become a tourist attraction)
Rick sold flowers.mobi for 5K. He reportedly bought it for 200K.
Rick´s experience in domain investing (talking about legacy TLDs: .COM, .NET, .ORG etc …) cannot be translated to New gTLDs.
This is a different field, with different rules, players etc … a totally different game.
Some people say save your money and buy a good .com. Well, to me it's like saying don't buy stock until you save up for Berkshire Hathaway (Which is currently $249k per share). Or like telling a youngster to not buy a car until they can buy a Ferrari.
I missed Brand.club
Rick lost tons of money on .MOBI, so yes he knows.
https://www.namepros.com/threads/th...hat-will-happen-to-new-gtld-investors.971597/
Seen any good .MOBI sales recently? When is the last time you visited a .MOBI site?
He also bought and dropped a lot of .CO domains.
It's actually the same players trying to claim the rules are different.
If you like new Gs so much how come your portfolio site is BrandClub.COM???
Good point.
Some people say save your money and buy a good .com. Well, to me it's like saying don't buy stock until you save up for Berkshire Hathaway (Which is currently $249k per share). Or like telling a youngster to not buy a car until they can buy a Ferrari.
I couldn`t grab BRAND.club
.CLUB domains are almost same price as .COMYou didn't want to pay much for a new gTLD and you own the .com.
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What do you think? Based on Rick's tweets, I believe he is referring to new gTLDs.
That is sooooooooo true-how much would you have paid for TRIVAGO.com 5 yrs ago? Reg fee maybe?Domain names are like art. A piece of the mind of its original creator. A vision. The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Sure we can talk stats, but any name with a great vision can be developed and grow.
Just make that money!
It is for sure that he has an influence on most domainers, so his comments will affect new gTLD registries and drops, but "Fake it till you make it" won`t work on this one since he got no influence on the real market, where the decision makers are end users only!
real end-users are only a few million regs out of 25 million. more than 3 quarters of the program are either investors or defensive. my guess is that if bitcoin continues to do well a lot of the Chinese registrants which make up more than 50% of all registrations will drop and invest the funds in cryptocurrency. I think that was the reason why .xyz ran this desperate 1B promo. They know that gamblers will gamble elsewhere if there are hotter assets available.