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

 

[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.

 

[NameFu]

isn't there also a .fish? horrible.

I think dot wtf is pretty bad also, when it comes to business...besides from a marketing perspective, the fact that you can make anything go viral, regardless of an extension doesn't say anything about the quality of an extension alone.

 

[ivey]

Too much come to mind..Just wasted money on a .uno

 

[N-A]

The sites that are related to [.HORSE] 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!

Doing a quick search on them, I came up with stunning results like you.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=site:*horse.com

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

Considering that riders who are just beginning spend $1500-$3000 for a new horse and more experienced riders more on the expensive side with show horses and breeding horses way beyond... there could be potential here in the form of cross-sales, up-sells, etc. when you get a generic .horse name. You don't sell the name high, rather the services to promote their horses for sale. (I.E. given in your example, sell the domain for $50 [time] and a new design, SEO, SMM, etc. for $1000+ with reoccurring maintenance fees).

This is all very speculative of me to say and I won't be the first to tread the waters to register a $40 gTLD that may sit collecting dust until it's deprecated like marquee.

Too much come to mind..Just wasted money on a .uno

If you got a solid Spanish name and paid un(o) dolar to veinte dolares, I'd say you're fine for the time being as it's beating dotSoy by a "long shot".

Nonetheless, we all make mistakes and we learn from them.

G'Luck

 

[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

 

[N-A]

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

Not that bad of a gTLD if you're selective (that goes for many).

Doing a search on .kitchen, I see many developed sites from hobbyists which appear they rebranded as their content goes back to 2010 (gimmetheknife), though I don't see resell potential for these. There is also a more professional site (baking101), also a hobbyist and used for resume purposes. Then there are finally businesses using them (flapjack), but unsure if it's an affiliate site or if they actually chose this for their product.

Amazing, bacon is taken though. It would go well with a flapjack.

I see more end users with kitchen in their business name (carpenters, etc.) using these and them being the most profitable for domainers. However, we won't know for another year on almost every gTLD and it is too risky for anyone without capital to gamble to get in on the action at this point.

 

[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.

 

[N-A]

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

Shoot for the stars and try 5 out. Report back.

 

[Soofi]

.OOO & .XYZ lol

 

[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

 

[Rado_Ch]

Ah, a lot of them don't have much of a market if this would be one of the factors when you consider "good" or "bad". I can't really see the point of color-oriented TLDs (.pink .blue), country specific ones (.abogado .immobilien) or extensions that create the room for typing mistakes (.gift vs .gifts). DotFutbol also is kinda useless and bound to be mistaken with "football". Of course, .ooo is pretty high on my list too

 

[Voodoomoodoo]

Do you have any examples of pinyin words starting with xyz?

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

 

[vdonline]

Why the .ooo exists?

 

[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.

 

[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 .........

 

[RogueWriter]

.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.

On the upside, bigasa.horse is still available.

 

[RogueWriter]

isn't there also a .fish? horrible.

I think dot wtf is pretty bad also, when it comes to business...besides from a marketing perspective, the fact that you can make anything go viral, regardless of an extension doesn't say anything about the quality of an extension alone.

I can see .wtf being useful to consumers that are complaining about merchants, or political leaders, or as prank sites, humorous videos, etc. It certainly will not appeal to any 'serious' businesses, but then again if there can be a successful tshirt site at tshirthell dot com ( that's where all the bad shirts go ) , there could be some fun tshirt businesses, or gag type businesses on the extension. But .ooo and that ilk, not so much.

 

[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.

 

[Kate]

I can see .wtf being useful to consumers that are complaining about merchants, or political leaders, or as prank sites, humorous videos, etc

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

 

[disaac81]

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.

 

[domainventure]

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

 

[McDuke]

I think there are many questionable new gTLD's but I also think there are many good ones out and more to come.

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

 

[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.

 

[disaac81]

The last part of this conversion suggests .com will not be the primary domain of choice?

What do you guys make of it?

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