What are the new tlds you could see being successful from a domainer standpoint

[equity78]

So much talk lately about all the new tld applications. Everything from Google applying for .lol to the parent of Pool.com appyling for .sucks.

What extensions will you want to register for resale ?

 

[DU]

The only TLDs that will work will provide a platform that provides the associated controls. One of those controls will be ZERO speculation. In other words, NONE will work for domainers.

I would recommend that SMB that have stores pay close attention to their local market - i.e. New York businesses should make sure they take advantage of .NYC however they setup that up.

 

[Sam]

Some local Geos / Region speaking (something like .cat). .SCO perhaps for scotland.

.BRANDS will be useful not for domainers.

Everything else will be a big, big flop.

 

[bmugford]

The new extensions are going to be extremely expensive to market, and the registries exist to make money.

End users and domainers will quickly realize that registries are not just going to give away their best assets for peanuts.

As a domainer I don't think many will be great investments.

Without domainers new extensions are really going to struggle. Look at an extension like .CO, with 1.2M regs and hardly any end user usage or awareness. Where would they be without domainer registrations?

Brad

 

[equity78]

@defaultuser that may be a good premise John but most new extensions will not be able to sustain without speculation. I would say most are counting on it for long term viability.

@brad I agree that most will follow the auction models of .me and .co or the "brand protection" of .xxx. Guys like Berkens and Monte Cahn will be advising them how to maximize their selling value of all top keywords and short domains.

 

[.X.]

All this new tld hoopla is hurting us as domainers.

I don't think any of them will help at all, Average web surfers will be totally confused as well. Therefore i see it as total waste, Because the only way to get traffic to most any thing other than .com is to have a no worse than second page google indexing. So nothing gained by purchasing one of the new tld's, Except maybe UDRPs, First come, First serve.

 

[GiftedDomains]

.shop (maybe)

 

[equity78]

Exactly .X. the average non techie just learned Twitter. They are going to be like what was that ad I heard. Nike.shop or shop.nike oh wait nikeshop.com, oh I will just go to Nike.com.

For those advocating more choice. The top names will go for big money.

But hopefully there will be some good ones, like .name,.jobs,.travel. Oh wait, they already exist, 99% of the population just does not know those extensions exist.

 

[Kate]

Depends on your definition of successful, but I think that all TLDs that are unrestricted will have more or less heavy speculation and have at least a few sales, a few people will always benefit but for the vast majority it will be a flop.
It's only a remake of what we have had in the past decade. More extensions that hardly anybody wants. For regfee, some people are always willing to take a chance on a non-established extension, but purchasing on the aftermarket probably no.

Don't forget that the registries are doing this for money, running a TLD is a license to print money.

Answer: I'm not interested in any. But if in 10 years a few get notable usage from end users I will adjust accordingly.

 

[Pound]

Exactly .X. the average non techie just learned Twitter. They are going to be like what was that ad I heard. Nike.shop or shop.nike oh wait nikeshop.com, oh I will just go to Nike.com.

For those advocating more choice. The top names will go for big money.

But hopefully there will be some good ones, like .name,.jobs,.travel. Oh wait, they already exist, 99% of the population just does not know those extensions exist.

This is my theory though -- .info, one of the most hated TLDs amongst domainers could actually start to become one of the most popular when people get used to doing XXX.XXX.

Having said that, I own 2 .infos and hundreds of .coms...

 

[DU]

@defaultuser that may be a good premise John but most new extensions will not be able to sustain without speculation. I would say most are counting on it for long term viability.

If they allow speculation they will fail.

None of them need speculation and very few of the serious ones WANT speculation.

The power of the TLD is the power associated with controlling an entire namespace. That's the value.

The costs of managing the TLD will PLUMMET in the next 5 years.

 

[Kate]

The costs of managing the TLD will PLUMMET in the next 5 years.

Probably. In fact you don't have to run the registry yourself, it can be outsourced to companies like Affilias or others that will run the backend for you and take care of all the technical part.
The only thing that cannot be outsourced is the actual marketing of the TLD, this is where the big challenge is.

 

[Ms Domainer]

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The .brand TLDs will most likely be used for brand defense purposes and, perhaps, branding and offering users safe sites for customers to land.

It is doubtful that highly-restricted .brand registries (essentially the companies themselves) will allow for outside registrations by domainers or anyone else.

I do envision that Google (if successful in its bid) will be selling .lol domains to the public, but not .google. Of course, I can only speculate here.

As usual, the insider good 'ole boy domainers will make loads of money, but the rest of us: not likely.

A social media .lol might be fun to own, but does anyone really want to do business on Bank.lol or Loan.lol?

Seriously?


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[south]

I would not take part, but .sex is the only thing that most people would be able to remember with everything else coming out that would stand a chance.

 

[carob]

See earlier thread on this - http://www.namepros.com/domain-name...w-tlds-ones-would-you-invest.html#post4245806

BTW Google has already said publicly the new extensions will have no SE0 advantage. But what if it turns out they have SEO disadvantages?

The new extensions may hurt less popular extensions like biz, mobi, ws if the people holding cheap lottery tickets in those decide to gamble on new extensions instead.

 

[DEFLECTED]

I think that .app has about the greatest potential for new Tlds. The rest I wouldn't pay more than a dollar for.

 

[GiftedDomains]

You can see how much success they will have, by looking at the past and examine how much success similar TLDs had.

.Biz for instance

The biz TLD was created to relieve some of the demand for domain names in the com top-level domain, and to provide an alternative for businesses whose preferred domain name in com had already been registered by another party.

Now how many serious businesses use .biz?

I even predict that .biz is much more successful than all the upcoming TLds, one reason will also be that there are so many of them, but there are limited number of people willing to spend money. So the money has to be devided to all of them

 

[Ms Domainer]

I would not take part, but .sex is the only thing that most people would be able to remember with everything else coming out that would stand a chance.

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.sex might be a pretty good TLD.

After all, sex, a natural part of life, is not necessarily p0rn--

Unlike .xxx, which leaves no doubt.



Still, I don't think I'll be investing in this new TLD area because the premium names have already been assigned (the fix is in), and only those who have an "in" will make the big money.

Perhaps a generation from now, the new TLDs will take off, but recent history hasn't been kind to newbie TLDs.

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[biggie]

:talk:

i'd like to own .shit

cuz i could think of lots of names for that gtld

like:


register.shit
buy.shit
thentrytosell.shit

crap.shit
smellslike.shit
stupid.shit
bull.shit
fullof.shit
dumb.shit
pigeon.shit
crazy.shit


ya'll feeling me yet

 

[Kate]

Another thing to consider:

New extensions will probably not be subject to price caps, unlike the gTLDs like .com/.net extensions that are regulated. Which means that the registry cannot increase fees at will or apply differential (premium) pricing.

Imagine if your regfee could be multiplied by 10 or 100 or the registry decides to apply premium pricing à la .tv, depending on the perceived worth of your domain.
Don't you think end users or domain investors will be reluctant to 'invest' in a TLD like that ? They should...