new gtlds shop.app ranking above shop.com according to Alexa

[Alessandro Couteau]

Wow is all I can say ...

The screenshot attached is the Alexa ranking of,

https://shop.app

Mind you these Alexa results took them ONLY half a year ... (what?!)

Many of you know I reported this name sold last year to Shopify for $200,000 ... and that their stock soared from a share price of $400 in March 2020 to $1,200 as of TODAY

what an ROI

Here’s the best part !!!

https://shop.com sold for $3.55M in 2003

Alexa Ranking - 14,621

The GTLD https://shop.app triumphs over the TLD https://shop.com ... albeit both are no doubt stunning names !

What was it that TLD .com investors were saying ? .com only - It’s time for new GTLD investors to wake up, consumers are not reliant on .com anymore ~ they are becoming more aware everyday of new technologies and ideas and most importantly names

________

The concensus should be,

~ INVEST IN GOOD DOMAINS, WETHER THEY ARE .COM OR NEW INTERNET REALESTATE ~

 

[Samer]

LOL. The ngtld coming out in full force tonight.

What is .app renewal?

Arent they owned by google

 

[Alessandro Couteau]

LOL. The ngtld coming out in full force tonight.

What is .app renewal?

Arent they owned by google

Yessiree !

Current .app renewal prices range from $12 to $35 annually, and yes Google owns the extension

.app aside though ^ this is irrefutable evidence that GTLDs in premium keyword combinations cannot only compete with the single keyword .com - but in this case, rank above it

I also noticed the GTLD https://casino.online is ranking well above https://casinoonline.com as well by a massive degree 200% more

 

[coolhands]

i'ts because the domain was featured and published on top site on the world like shopify and techcrunch, business insider, wsj and more:

here is how powerful the backlinks that domain have now:

 

[FolioTeam]

LOL. The ngtld coming out in full force tonight.

What is .app renewal?

Arent they owned by google

I think the renewal for a standard .app is $12-$13. But shop.app is definitely premium pricing and renewals

 

[FolioTeam]

Yessiree !

Current .app renewal prices range from $12 to $35 annually, and yes Google owns the extension

.app aside though ^ this is irrefutable evidence that GTLDs in premium keyword combinations cannot only compete with the single keyword .com - but in this case, rank above it

I also noticed the GTLD https://casino.online is ranking well above https://casinoonline.com as well by a massive degree 200% more

Ranking on SERP and on other metrics has never been about domains or TLDs. Content is king

 

[Alessandro Couteau]

i'ts because the domain was featured and published on top site on the world like shopify and techcrunch, business insider, wsj and more:

here is how powerful the backlinks that domain

Ranking on SERP and on other metrics has never been about domains or TLDs. Content is king

Haha, I agree with you ^ but TLD .com investors will tell you it’s all because of the .com that sites rank high ^ when we both know search engine algorithms do not rank based on extensions

Well we now have irrefutable evidence that the GTLD can not only compete with the TLD but they can rank higher

 

[Alessandro Couteau]

i'ts because the domain was featured and published on top site on the world like shopify and techcrunch, business insider, wsj and more:

here is how powerful the backlinks that domain have now:

Makes sense considering Shopify owns the name

Check the ranking and back links on

https://casino.online versus https://casinoonline.com

or

https://home.loans versus
https://homeloans.com owned by Wells Fargo

 

[D Haynes]

I haven't heard anyone in the last 5 years claim that the extension effects its ranking power. There are a whole host of metrics that's dictate a domains ranking which can be applied to any extension.

Personally I don't understand why you find this noteworthy.

The big question is...

If you could choose to own shop.com or shop.app (just the domain with no backlinks or other metrics) which would you choose?

If you answer is .app you're probably in the wrong game.

 

[coolhands]

I haven't heard anyone in the last 5 years claim that the extension effects its ranking power. There are a whole host of metrics that's dictate a domains ranking which can be applied to any extension.

Personally I don't understand why you find this noteworthy.

The big question is...

If you could choose to own shop.com or shop.app (just the domain with no backlinks or other metrics) which would you choose?

If you answer is .app you're probably in the wrong game.

don't compare shop.com Vs shop.app
you should compare instead shopapp.com Vs shop.app

this is the era of digital assets, and you can see now even emoji domains are selling for +$400K, gtlds have a bright future on the domain industry.

 

[D Haynes]

don't compare shop.com Vs shop.app
you should compare instead shopapp.com Vs shop.app

this is the era of digital assets, and you can see now even emoji domains are selling for +$400K, gtlds have a bright future on the domain industry.

I'm not the one making the comparison, that was the OP.

 

[Alessandro Couteau]

I haven't heard anyone in the last 5 years claim that the extension effects its ranking power. There are a whole host of metrics that's dictate a domains ranking which can be applied to any extension.

Personally I don't understand why you find this noteworthy.

The big question is...

If you could choose to own shop.com or shop.app (just the domain with no backlinks or other metrics) which would you choose?

If you answer is .app you're probably in the wrong game.

15 years ago when we had .com millionaires popping up left and right, business’ were buying domains for two reasons, one exact match keywords were a large factor in ranking online, and two, domains were and still are investments ^

The past 5 years GTLDs have started to grow in value exponentially ^ what people laughed about 5 years ago is now showing a new foresight into the market ... yes I am aware comparing shop.app to shop.com is funny to you and many others, but my point was simply this > as the market continues to age, good domains like shop.com are becoming scarce, “not for sale” - and it is nice to see that with the proper SEO and exact match keyword in a different extension we can see that GTLDs work in line with what was the case for TLDs 15 years ago

I don’t know Google or Bing’s algorithm and I don’t imagine anyone here does, but what I do know is that the “requests” thread here is filled 95% of the time with (.com only) as if new extensions are a black sheep to the domain world, well I am tired of Verisign and ICANN and their muppets running their monopoly on the world wide web ! It’s about time that new investors and old investors knew the value and potential of GTLDs and given what I know and have seen, I imagine this will be the case in short order > so long as we don’t have legends buying bad GTLD combinations like https://flowers.mobi

And yes you’re right, .com is the go to extension because 90% of the world is unaware of GTLDs ... 10 years ago BTC was in the same realm trading at $.08 / coin ^ 1 year ago NFT’s were the same story, unheard of until Mark Cuban and a few billionaires started trading in digital art ^ digital assets are valuable prospects, and that category includes “good domains”

we are a community here, we should be working together to promote “good domains” so long as they are “good domains” single exact match keywords in valuable industries

And one more thing Haynes, if I had known shop.app and what would come of shop.app 2 years ago, I would have bought the name and traded it to Shopify for stock and made millions on my investment ^ not even Berkshire Hathaway can guarantee that ROI

And the thing is we don’t know when that next domino is gonna fall, just as we didn’t know Vignesh would spend $69M on an NFT painting

Looking forward to what happens in the next few years in the digital world

 

[platey]

why do you think google s alphabet is called alphabet?

because organic seo is alphabeticical

(both sides of the dot

.com investors were saying that google should make an offer to buy alphabet .com from bm w etc

google choss the alphabetical option

abc. xyz

which is alphabetically nearer to tge start of the alphabet than alphabet. com etc

the same reason why amazon had to buy

a. co

before alphabet and apple etc

amazons

a. co

amazon understands that

short is better

(both sides of the dot)

a. co is better than a. com

which new gtld investors understood in 2013 which many .com only investors have still yet to realise in 2121 etc which puts a smile on my face lol having been told during the last 8 years or so by domain name brokers that my portfolio has no value etc and now the .com is everything brokees hovering around the top 1% of domains will have portfolios that are difficult to sell as potential buyers will use alexa rankings and the shop .app scenario to disprove that .com is everything which it is not

interesting times lol

 

[griff]

amazon understands that

short is better

(both sides of the dot)

a. co is better than a. com

which new gtld investors understood in 2013 which many .com only investors have still yet to realise in 2121 etc which puts a smile on my face lol

a.co is not better than a.com. a.com doesn't event exist so saying that Amazon bought a.co because it is shorter/better makes no sense

and .co isn't even a NGTLD so I'm not sure where to even begin with this comment.

 

[Neal Grayson]

Good insight! Thank you for posting. I may analyze sample comparisons on my blog this month since another user mentioned casino.online vs casinoonline.com.

 

[ecalc]

The past 5 years GTLDs have started to grow in value exponentially

Time Period	NGTLD Aftermarket USD
Last 5 years	20.8m
Last 3 years	10.2m
Last 2 years	6.1m
Last 1 year	2.3m

source: namebio

 

[Alessandro Couteau]

Time Period	NGTLD Aftermarket USD
Last 5 years	20.8m
Last 3 years	10.2m
Last 2 years	6.1m
Last 1 year	2.3m

source: namebio

You’re right ! I should be more clear ^ growing privately : NameBio Sedo ICANN Verisign, are like banks of the domain world ... why would they give any good news about GTLDs, when it directly undermines their strongest investment

A few years ago JP Morgan Chase told consumers not to buy crypto, do not invest ... just last month JP Morgan Chase says they expect BTC to hit $130K a coin ...

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, can’t get fooled again

 

[Alessandro Couteau]

a.co is not better than a.com. a.com doesn't event exist so saying that Amazon bought a.co because it is shorter/better makes no sense

and .co isn't even a NGTLD so I'm not sure where to even begin with this comment.

A.com does exist, however it is not for sale and everyday the market sees 100K registrations ... good .com domains are becoming scarce, opening up the opportunity for exact match keyword GTLD combinations to come into play as yet another untapped market

 

[CraigD]

They are both very solid names that describe exactly what they do.

It's all about content and backlinks.

Aside from that, the extension should not matter for search ranking unless you are searching from within a country where the ccTLD ranks higher because it is a local extension.

For example, if I do a Google search for the word 'shop' from Sydney Australia, the top three sites returned in order are:

shop.app
au.shop.com
dubbo.com.au (who shops in Dubbo?)

 

[Henry Y]

The logic of most people in this forum is that:

Why does a website using new gTLD succeed?
Because it has great content and many backlinks.

Why does a website using new gTLD fail?
Because it uses new gTLD.

Why does a website using .com succeed?
Because it uses .com.

Why does a website using .com fail?
Because it has poor content and few backlinks.


This kind of logic is called bias.