The Worst gtld?

[wot]

The majority are pretty awful and are likely to go belly up.

Which is your favorite worst gtld?

I will start with .desi, had no idea what it meant until I used our online search friend.

But I bought 2! Desis.desi & Pro.Desi

 

[RogueWriter]

There is a vintage/antique store near here called the Purple Cow, lol, I bet they would love that domain. But really, where is all the demand going to come from for that extension?

swimming.cow is sure to go quick...

 

[Kate]

Does anyone see any of the new tlds taking over .net

Easily ! You just need to have 15 million registered. If you give them away as permanent freebies, perhaps you will get there.

 

[N-A]

http://www.thedomains.com/2014/08/20/tech-publications-in-china-giving-postive-coverage-to-xyz/

Again, just want to highlight that i'm not endorsing xyz or think it's particularly good or bad. Just saying that there might be some potential in China, that people who live in the west don't necessarily consider

I'm not even going to waste my time reading this at the moment. I can only speculate that once .xyz failed and was called out giving freebies away and forced opt-in domains at NetSol, they stopped all those practices where they were being called out attempting their million registration mark.

However in Asia; speaking Japan specifically, they picked up a huge number of domains at Onamae.com (the "GoDaddy" of Japan) on 3 different days. A total of 71,794 at the time of this post with a surprising one day peak of 5,713, followed by another spike of 9,500 even (how convenient that it was rounded off) and another spike of 6,627 on 10/31/2014.

With GMO (Onamae), .xyz accounts for 56.3% of their total registrations.

You see the same pattern with Xin Net as you do Onamae.

Something smells fishy, and it's not rotten tuna.

So potential in China? No.

I can attest for the domain names in Japan as I've been here for so long. A lot of companies don't realize a .co.jp (expensive and restricted), .jp (~$100) or a .com would significantly increase their business. That is why a lot of companies go belly up, because they pay for print advertising and distribution of flyers (which end up in the trash).

.info was huge as it was 99 cents. It is still widely being used for mom and pop companies.

When .xyz came out with freebies, I believe ~80 cents and now at a stunning amount of $1.55 to register (without coupons applied if they have a system of such), they have been having constant "registrations" (can only speculate they aren't defensive registrations as I haven't looked into them with a fine tooth comb).

Negari stated he would have 1,000,000 registrations by the end of the year. He got caught red handed in North America with the NetSol scandal. So the next best move was to Asia to crank the numbers up to 700k.

Will he make it? Yes, as long as he can recruit devil advocates on other continents (South America, Europe, Africa and Australia).

He may even break the numbers by mid December.

And that is why .xyz is by far the worst. Padding the numbers to dupe investors into an "aftermarket" of pure crap. Not only is it a bad gTLD, the company just doesn't have good business ethics.

I would really like to see the mission statement and core values of XYZ.COM, LLC., and not the fake ones they provide publicly, the internal ones in which they are thriving by.

 

[ealfert]

I don't agree that singular and plural of the same words is a disadvantage.

"florida.condos" is better than "florida.condo" for a real estate listing site.
"florida.condo" is better than "florida.condos" for an individual owner of a condo.

The singular and plural have different uses. There is no need to register both "florida.condos" and "florida.condo" by the same company since they server different uses.

Just like the English dictionary has many words that mean the same or similar, the different TLDs provide that extra nuance needed for a better domain targeted at a specific niche.

 

[JB Lions]

I heard a dot biz advertised on the radio last week. I believe that is only the second time in the last ten years I have actually encountered one. The first was a painting company and the second was in construction.

Serious question. First, I think .biz sucks myself, always have. So you've only encountered it twice in the last 10 years. It has 2.4 million regs. So how often do you think you'll encounter some of the new ones, that only have a few thousand? There are so many now, with more to come, I bet a lot of domainers couldn't even name them all. I was going thru the list the other day and saw some that were out that I didn't even know. And these are people in the business.

I don't agree that singular and plural of the same words is a disadvantage.

It's a disadvantage if you're a domainer trying to sell them. The point .tv brought up is a good one that's been brought up before. There are so many variations of basically the same word, it just makes it harder to sell to an end user. For those that want extensions nobody has heard of, they can have their pick. They don't need your domain.

 

[DomainVP]

.HORSE

Why oh why does the world need a .HORSE... as it is I don't think equestrian related domains take up much of any existing extensions.

The sites that are related to horses are so bad that it looks like they were built on an angelfire free website builder in 1996.

Complete with animated gifs, blinking text, and my personal favorite; MARQUEE scrolling text!

One of the best .HORSE names will be; RODEO.HORSE... which of course is most likely reserved by the registry and will be sold at a premium to be paid over 10 years.

 

[Kate]

.co is a ccTLD. But it's treated like a gTLD by Google for SEO purposes, along with a few other TLDs like .cc .ws, .tv or .me I think.

 

[wot]

.HORSE, or .COW, that is the question.

Coming soon .Equine, .Bovine , .Porcine etc.

 

[Rado_Ch]

I for one find .COW udderly exciting, it can really turn out to be legendairy :3

 

[matrigaldo]

What about .republican one?

 

[N-A]

The thread is the worst gTLD. If we're being politically correct and staying on topic, I nominate .ooo and .xyz for not making sense, even though people will bend over backwards stating that they do because they're "repeating letters" or "the last three letters of the alphabet".

The ccTLD's that were re-branded (.co, .me, .pw, .ws and .io) technically don't belong here.

These are the only ones that should be discussed IMO.
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strings

 

[DU]

I thought you said .WHORES which isn't that bad.

.zip because I'm pretty sure that we're going to have browsers and users confuse extensions and mime types.

I kind of like .oooooooooooo

I'm also one of the lucky 5000 people to have a .kitchen

 

[DomainVP]

A lot of the sites are poorly designed. Does this make it a poor gTLD or one that is untapped and full of potential?

I agree. Was thinking the same thing. Those old sites are going to need an upgrade someday; maybe that day is today.

 

[wot]

.HORSE

Why oh why does the world need a .HORSE... as it is I don't think equestrian related domains take up much of any existing extensions.

The sites that are related to horses are so bad that it looks like they were built on an angelfire free website builder in 1996.

Complete with animated gifs, blinking text, and my personal favorite; MARQUEE scrolling text!

One of the best .HORSE names will be; RODEO.HORSE... which of course is most likely reserved by the registry and will be sold at a premium to be paid over 10 years.

Perfect for the dyslexic ENT specialist who thinks it is .hoarse

 

[RogueWriter]

I looked for articles about .ooo to see what their reasoning was. Here is a clip and a link to an article:

"The new Generic Top Level Domain (GTLD) ‘.ooo’ is aimed at providing alternate domain registration solutions to those who have failed to locate their brand name or business names on .com domain. Also, ‘.ooo’ is seen as a mobile-friendly domain as it reduces usage of multiple keys on phones.

“This domain will be used by small enterprises as well as large corporate. We expect many to migrate from .com to .ooo as there is higher possibility of name availability here,” said Vishal Mehta, Founder, Infibeam.com.

The company is targeting 35,000-40,000 trademark registered companies along with several SMEs. “The new GTLD is the first of a kind initiative by any e-commerce company. Over the next 6-12 months we expect to get about 1-2 million domain registrations under .ooo,” Mehta told BusinessLine......"

.ooo article

Looks like a fairly significant fail imo............. If I am reading it right, one of the other justifications is that ".ooo" is faster to type on a cell phone interface than ".com"... so of course people will register .ooo .........

 

[vivaldi]

I'm not even going to waste my time reading this at the moment. I can only speculate that once .xyz failed and was called out giving freebies away and forced opt-in domains at NetSol, they stopped all those practices where they were being called out to read their million registration mark.

However in Asia; speaking Japan specifically, they picked up a huge number of domains at Onamae.com (the GoDaddy of Japan) on 3 different days. A total of 71,794 at the time of this post with a surprising one day peak of 5,713, followed by another spike of 9,500 even (how convenient that it was rounded off) and another spike of 6,627 on 10/31/2014.

With GMO (Onamae), .xyz accounts for 56.3% of their total registrations.

You see the same pattern with Xin Net as you do Onamae.

Something smells fishy, and it's not rotten tuna.

So potential in China? No.

I can attest for the domain names in Japan as I've been here for so long. A lot of companies don't realize a .co.jp (expensive and restricted), .jp (~$100) or a .com would significantly increase their business. That is why a lot of companies go belly up, because they pay for print advertising and distribution of flyers (which end up in the trash).

.info was huge as it was 99 cents. It is still widely being used for mom and pop companies.

When .xyz came out with freebies, I believe ~80 cents and now at a stunning amount of $1.55 to register (without coupons applied if they have a system of such), they have been having constant "registrations" (can only speculate they aren't defensive registrations as I haven't looked into them with a fine tooth comb).

Negari stated he would have 1,000,000 registrations by the end of the year. He got caught red handed in North America with the NetSol scandal. So the next best move was to Asia to crank the numbers up to 700k.

Will he make it? Yes, as long as he can recruit devil advocates on other continents (South America, Europe, Africa and Australia).

He may even break the numbers by mid December.

And that is why .xyz is by far the worst. Padding the numbers to dupe investors into an "aftermarket" of pure crap. Not only is it a bad gTLD, the company just doesn't have good business ethics.

I would really like to see the mission statement and core values of XYZ.COM, LLC., and not the fake ones they provide publicly, the internal ones in which they are thriving by.

Will he make one million this year, no doubt because well see and judge those of you that actually thinks .xyz is the flying pig to catch. Out of 1700 registered today meg8me6.xyz seems to be the best of them

 

[N-A]

Will he make one million this year, no doubt because well see and judge those of you that actually thinks .xyz is the flying pig to catch. Out of 1700 registered today meg8me6.xyz seems to be the best of them

If he doesn't make his 1 million-inflated ego-attempt by December 15th; being the registry and possibly having access to registrar API's, I would only assume that he would purchase the remaining ones himself.

Essentially, he's getting paid to register his own names and losing out with nominal fees per name once they are purchased. God forbid he uses an affiliate program to cover those up as well... I could see him abusing that with what they've done so far.

 

[domainventure]

Some extensions are a type of Ponzi scheme. Operators make their money, but the laggard registrants are left holding the bag...

 

[N-A]

Don't we have .gripes and .sucks already ? How many redundant/overlapping extensions do we need ?

So many that you forgot .exposed.

What is the deal with all these extensions? Some are just ridiculous, seemingly trying to ruin the internet more than it is ruined already, since it is stuffed full of 99.9% spam and porn as it is.

Did the gTLD's ruin the internet or porn? I think the chicken came first; and by that, the porn.

The not so good extensions may actually have diamonds in the rough because there are very few sensible word combos...

Tread with care if you don't have the capital to sustain registrations. You can find that diamond and hold onto it for 10 years before you get your first $100 offer. Then again, with the right combo, you can wait 10 months and have a $10,000 offer.

Be active and not passive. Be careful, do your due diligence and research. Don't register these merely on a hunch as you can get 2 LLLL.com's for the price of these gTLD's, which with current benchmarks, have more liquidity.

 

[RU]

"Bad" TLDs: .XYZ, .OOO, .MOBI, .PW, .WS, .IO and .CO, but i like domains powered by Verisign .TV and .CC

 

[DnEbook]

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.property and .properties

.pic and .pics, and one step going further into this by approving .images, .photo and its plural.

.villas and soon there will be .villa

.condos and soon there will be .condo

.estate and soon there will be .realestate

.website is alive, and soon there will be .site, and they have already approved .online, and .web as well.

As usual, the winners are ICANN, Registries and the Registrars.

Stinks of a money grab

 

[wot]

Apparently .global made a couple killer 5 figure deals. (DNJournal)

...that are on late 2015 drop list.

One was Apple.global (Bought by Apple) which makes no sense unless sunrise prices were more than $10K!

 

[RU]

.CO is no longer ccTLD? Does google no longer localize country codes, or has .CO become an international extension?

.CO is a gccTLD but for me this is a typo-TLD.

 

[vdonline]

.CO is a gccTLD but for me this is a typo-TLD.

The same here.
The most problem when using .co domain, people always ask "Hey, are you missing an m?"