Values have dropped off?

[davelalande]

I think with the expansion of the TLDs, the value of existing .com have fallen to 0? I've been buying and selling names for ~17 years and for about the last 18 months, nothing. No inquiries and no sales.

I have sold domains priced within $1500 - $7000 nearly every year since I've been selling, now nothing is happening?

Anyone else seeing this trend or am I just in a solo dry spell?

 

[Kate]

One simple fact:

.COM 112,158,370

as of 01/31/2014 20:07:32 PM UTC

Source

Frankly, I doubt the most successful of new extensions will ever be able to attain 112 millions regs.
Conclusion: .com is going to remain #1 for a very long time, unless end users flock away from .com in droves. Don't see why that should happen.

'Paradigm Change' was a popular buzzword at the time of .mobi. You know the deal on that. Or maybe you don't. You did not study History :gl:

OP: there are ups and downs in sales. Right now the domainers are excited and anxious. It's always the dot-com-is-dead nonsense we hear every time a new 'revolutionary' extension is launched :hearts:
But the end users are more down to earth, and change does not happen overnight either.

I don't know about your domains, but do they relate to time-sensitive trends perhaps ?

 

[Magicpig2]

'Paradigm Change' was a popular buzzword at the time of .mobi. You know the deal on that. Or maybe you don't. You did not study History :gl:

Personally, I wouldn't compare the .MOBI extension with the Internet of Things.

 

[Kate]

Internet of Things is just a buzzword. It's not something you write to the right of the dot

 

[mjnels]

.mobi wasnt a "paradigm change" tho... neither is 10 TLD's released across 10 years.

the ability to register anything.anything is another ballgame entirely. there is zero history to go on for something like this.

 

[Kate]

The end users know that new extensions are coming, well many don't seem to be much aware yet We still have a lot of time to liquidate or now worthless .com until they get the memo
Or they are just not interested. Personally I have not experienced a sharp decrease in sales but YMMV of course.
Also, I am fairly active in ccTLDs and I don't sense interest for new extensions in local markets.
Believe me, domaining is still full of opportunities but don't let the TLD spindoctors stray you away and rob you off :hi:

 

[wwwweb]

What most people do not understand is that you simply cannot create an gtld for every extension, there are many unique keywords, and brands that cannot warrant the the creation of a new gtld. This will keep .com on the radar, and in the norm. Large companies are not dumb, they will not lose eyeballs of their customers to their .com's, they may play with their gtld's for marketing, much like o.co, which did not work.

The general public, does not live, or breathe domains, nor care for them. The small business that repairs electronics, and has it's .com, isn't going to run out and get a gtld for $10K, or even $40. It is a big world, and people have big ideas of hitting it big, of getting in on the second gold rush, well news flash, this time, everything has been researched over with a fine tooth comb. You have all the generics held for auction by the registries, from the way it is now you are at 4x annual reg fee of a .com. I have no idea which way this goes, but I see no major shift for the next few years. I can just run with the facts, and see there are some people out there spending $10K on new gtld's on week 1, when there are 1000 more gtld's coming to water down their investments. Yes, there are guys that own tens of thousands of names against the .com, can you imagine the sheer number of domains that can be created against 1000 gtld's.

From my own point of view, I ask myself what if .mobi .info, .biz, .us were launching with the current bunch, people would be bouncing off walls to try, and register them. Well we already have an indication from a marketplace perspective how that investment has turned out. Best of luck to all on both sides of the dot.