For e-mail spam, many of the new gTLDs have continually featured in the Spamhaus list.
https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Some mailserver administrators block the new gTLDs completely. As for webspam, the ACCOUNTANT NGT was a good example of the risks of landing on an affiliate site rather than a developed site. After a few years, the content percentage completely faded.
I am not shocked that many new gTLDs are on the worst 10 list because there are over 1,000 extensions categorized into new gTLDs. Similarly, I am also not surprised that many new gTLDs are on the best 10 list.
I think blocking the new gTLDs completely is not the mainstream practice in the industry. As for .accountant, I am not aware of this extension. Did it have huge discount period before?
Webspam is driven by economics. The lower priced registration makes large networks of such webspam financially feasible. With COM, the registration fee acts as a deterrent and this kind of webspam is much lower as a percentage. This is also why the affiliate landers percentage is lower in the more expensive new gTLDs.
Your assumptions about COM are not based on data or an understanding of web usage. COM has genuine usage and global recognition.
You better provide the statistics for .xyz (also the source of the statistics) because people can buy a .xyz domain at $2 currently. It is one of the cheapest and most financially feasible extensions to spammers. If the percentage of .xyz affiliate landers is very high, then your argument is valid. By the way, .xyz (7.3% bad, score 0.68) is not on the worst 10 Spamhaus list, far from being on the list.
Though .com web spam is lower than some ngTLD web spam in percentage, the total number of registered .com is very high that results in much larger amount of web spams and much greater impact than ngTLD web spams:
As of Jun 30, there were 142.5 million registered .com (
https://www.businesswire.com/news/h...ws-354.7-Million-Domain-Registrations-Quarter) with your provided 27.62% of .com templated content data (assuming similar percentage as of Jun 30), the number of templated content (around 39 million) was already more than the total number of registered ngTLDs (around 25 million,
https://ntldstats.com/tld). So it is reasonable to deduce that most of the bad landers and spams use .com. Additionally, from our own experience, are most of the improper web uses that we encountered (affiliate landers and email spams) in recent years were .com? For me, yes.
From December 2018 survey, 1,075,557 LOAN domain names were adult affiliate landers and 38,013 were gambling landers. Only 2,118 were active sites. The September 2018 data showed 1,325,799 adult affiliate landers and 38,980 gambling affliate landers.
It would be much appreciated if you can provide the source of the data. I think many NP members would like to get more related data from the source.
Limited discounting in a healthy gTLD is fine and a small percentage of these will renew. Where discounting becomes the business model for the registry, the gTLD is in trouble and what happens is that almost the entire zone file will be deleted and replaced over the course of a year. That is a very bad thing for a gTLD. It kills the resale value of domain names.
Discounting also alters the dynamics of the discounted gTLD. Most of the discounting is targeted at the Chinese market and that's a volatile market in terms of registrations. Prior to the discounting, the gTLD may have a number of registrations spread over a large number of registrars and countries. Discounting changes the country shares of the gTLD and the gTLD begins to take on the registration characteristics of the largest registrars. They drive the new registrations and because the discounted registrations do not renew well, the renewal rates for the gTLD drop. That makes the gTLD toxic to retail registrars. They are focused on gaining customers who will continue to renew domain names. Having a gTLD dominated by discounters is a very bad thing for the credibility of the gTLD.
I think resale values are driven by domains' intrinsic values, demand and supply of similar domains. Not zone files and number of registrations.
It is completely not related to credibility as there are no lies and frauds involved. There are just normal market transactions that sellers sell at discount and buyers agree to buy at discount. Beside, while registrars lose renewals, they have new registrations at the same time if they continue discount period. It may not be so toxic to registrars. If new registrations exceed lost renewals, registrars may have a gain. But this business model loses investors' confidence continuously year by year if there are too few market sales and developed websites. So promotion to end users is needed during discount period to have more market sales and developed websites. If promotion is successful, the gTLD will be successful. Huge discounting can provide time to promote while maintaining registrations, so it is not wise to easily say that huge discounting kills a gTLD.
Country shares of gTLD are only relevant in promotion strategy and selling strategy, nothing related to failure of a gTLD.
