What is The Worst Extension

[dotker]

What do you think is the worst extension out there and why?

 

[Jawed]

i'll say .aero and .museum .. they are not even listed in the TLD dropdown at dnsaleprice.com

Does .pro meet your criteria? :D

 

[GiftedDomains]

.gay

DotGay

what comes next ?
.lesbian?
.hetero?
.tranny?

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.info
.name
.tel
.travel..

Never been able to sell any domain of these extensions

i don't think that .info should be mentioned together with .tel , etc. :imho:

 

[CDM]

I'm sure i won't be bursting anyones bubble here but i have already flipped 3 .tel domains, two for $1,xxx and one for high $xxx. these were some very good names though. though the $xxx was not even a landrush and was purchased at $20 reg fee. so i don't think .tel is the worst by far or even so bad. or maybe its really all about the sell :D

 

[Jawed]

It’s too early to decide if .tel is the worst extension. .info is a purposeful extension and cannot be classified among the worst ones at all. ccTLDs are also used in their respective countries and keywords are always in high demand. The issue is with .aero, .name, .travel, .museum and alike and they’d better got displayed in a museum showcase.

 

[shane mac]

.Travel
.Mobi
.Tel

.Mobi may get a life in the future but right now its right up there for "sucks" extensions.
.travel and .Tel are a complete failure.

 

[frankiethepet]

.tel has to be the worst with .name a close second...

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oh .museum and the likes im not even considering extensions... but if somehow somebody with a court order stating that they really are extensions... well then they win the worst extension price before .tel!

 

[netfleet]

Everything but .com is the worst extension ever! (well in 98% of the cases)

huh? Com values are dropping - most other values are rising (esp ccTLDs). Com is right down the bottom of the pack in terms of investment potential. IMHO of course.

Is com the worst extension to invest in right now? Quite possibly.

 

[DnEbook]

huh? Com values are dropping - most other values are rising (esp ccTLDs). Com is right down the bottom of the pack in terms of investment potential. IMHO of course.

Is com the worst extension to invest in right now? Quite possibly.

Some huge sales this year for .com , many would disagree with the above comments , although a lot to be said for your local cctld , .com still fetches the big bucks

 

[blackhueo]

.aero .museum and .coop. they just dont fit into the address bar and users wont visit those sites, doubt ther's decent value in it.

 

[akcampbell]

What criteria are people using to come up with worst extensions? For domainers, the worst extension should be the one that yields the lowest return on total reg fees charged.

So for example, .pro sales between May 08 and August 09 were $36,000 on dnsaleprice after stripping out two sales I know didn't complete, Gulf.pro at $8,000 and MerchantAccount.pro at $1,995. During that period RegistryPro collect in about $900,000 in reg fees so the domainer return was $36,000 divided by $900,000 = 4%.

Then you have to add parked revenue. On 300 parked .pros I made 6.50 Euros in Jan 09 which was the last month I had them all parked at Sedo. Extrapolated across the whole extension, that would be about $8,000 in parked income. $44,000 divided by $900,000 = 4.9%.

Finally, you would have to add unreported sales which for .pro would add on 0.1% for each $1,000 in the period. The resulting % would be equivalent to a dividend yield for a company.

It's easy to say .aero, museum, and .coop are the worst extensions but the reality is they aren't held speculatively so domainers aren't losing money on them. The worst extensions for domainers in terms of returns are the newer ones that got hyped and regged most heavily. Many of them have very low sales as a proportion of total reg fees collected.

Another issue to bear in mind is return distribution. .com has a higher % return than other extension but a big chunk of that comes from 100 six and seven figure 1990's regged domain sales each year and only a miniscule proportion of .com domainers see any of that.

 

[namewaiter]

What criteria are people using to come up with worst extensions? For domainers, the worst extension should be the one that yields the lowest return on total reg fees charged.

So for example, .pro sales between May 08 and August 09 were $36,000 on dnsaleprice after stripping out two sales I know didn't complete, Gulf.pro at $8,000 and MerchantAccount.pro at $1,995. During that period RegistryPro collect in about $900,000 in reg fees so the domainer return was $36,000 divided by $900,000 = 4%.

Then you have to add parked revenue. On 300 parked .pros I made 6.50 Euros in Jan 09 which was the last month I had them all parked at Sedo. Extrapolated across the whole extension, that would be about $8,000 in parked income. $44,000 divided by $900,000 = 4.9%.

Finally, you would have to add unreported sales which for .pro would add on 0.1% for each $1,000 in the period. The resulting % would be equivalent to a dividend yield for a company.

It's easy to say .aero, museum, and .coop are the worst extensions but the reality is they aren't held speculatively so domainers aren't losing money on them. The worst extensions for domainers in terms of returns are the newer ones that got hyped and regged most heavily. Many of them have very low sales as a proportion of total reg fees collected.

Another issue to bear in mind is return distribution. .com has a higher % return than other extension but a big chunk of that comes from 100 six and seven figure 1990's regged domain sales each year and only a miniscule proportion of .com domainers see any of that.

umm... i guess you can look at it that way, or maybe it's just simply an opinion?

 

[Jeff]

.mobi and .tv - mainly because these two extensions were hyped up a lot, gained some traction, but are now near worthless

^ Hammer. Head. Nail. :yell:

It is crystal clear for the overwhelming majority of intelligent, experienced domainers - and has been evident for a long, long time for those who'd actually open up their eyes (and minds) - that both the long, extremely AWKWARD, and unbrandable "dot Mobey" gTLD and prohibitively priced, and very forced Tuvaluian ".TV" ccTLD are among the two worst extensions of all time; and only exist for the shallow, nefarious, and GREEDY $ intentions of their Master Registries! :imho:

These are the facts, and they are indisputed ... and I'm very proud of the FACT that many very knowledgeable, visionary, and well respected, long-standing members of this great #1 Namepros™ forum have consistently voiced their questions & concerns and humble opinions about these extensions (and their Master Registries) since their respective inception, as well!
And, predictably, the Masters simply ran away from the tough questions ...

Again, kudos to these #1 members for looking out for their fellow domainers (and, no doubt, saving those new and/or newer to domain names a LOT of $ wasted Registrations and Renewal monies in these two hyped and proven less-than-credible extensions); experiece & value often not found on other venues! :gl:

Enjoy the rest of summer! :music:
-Jeff

 

[mjbenterprises]

Yeah, .tv never took off like I thought it would..... I'm glad I didn't lose too much money with that ext, but there were definitely losses for me with .tv, esp with the high reg fees..

 

[Jaco]

I think .museum is fine.
It's a concept tld that wasn't ever intended to be a 'domainers domain'. Any niche TLDs that have a vetting process to establish legitimacy are OK, in my opinion. If I owned a museum, you can bet I would absolutely, 100% build on this platform. I wouldn't mind .doctor/.doc, as long as it isn't available for registry by a plumber in Akron.

The dumbest gTLD's ever are .biz, .asia. .tel and .info.

.biz is the ugly, inbred cousin of .com and simply a callous attempt to open up channels of relevant keywords. We all see how that turned out...

.asia was supposed to compete with IDN's, I guess. Yeah, good luck with that failboat.

.info- lets get real for a second. Given how the web has evolved, this extension is completely pointless. Yeah, I own a few, but lets all face the fact that 'gTLD intent" hasn't exactly been adhered to over the years, as development goes. Again, another "Lets open a new TLD so we can create new keywords" joke.

.tel? Nuff said.

 

[Kate]

I think .museum is fine.
It's a concept tld that wasn't ever intended to be a 'domainers domain'. Any niche TLDs that have a vetting process to establish legitimacy are OK, in my opinion. If I owned a museum, you can bet I would absolutely, 100% build on this platform.

There are about 600 domains under that TLD... safe to say it's a dead zone. .aero is doing better at 16000+ but it's not used by the major players (like Airbus or Boeing).

I say these are utter failures, not because they were not made for domainers, but because they failed to gain traction within the very industries they were supposed to serve. Icann't should seriously ponder this before they open the floodgates.

 

[Premiere]

I have to agree that .biz is one of the worst, and its acceptance over .web was a massive disaster to begin with. I think mobi had a small chance but its clearly a poorly chosen representative of what it could have been.

 

[4u-domains]

Any TLD longer than 4 letters.

 

[GiftedDomains]

.info- lets get real for a second. Given how the web has evolved, this extension is completely pointless. Yeah, I own a few, but lets all face the fact that 'gTLD intent" hasn't exactly been adhered to over the years, as development goes. Again, another "Lets open a new TLD so we can create new keywords" joke.

.info is a good tld here in germany (and austria, swiss, etc.) and much more appreciated than in USA etc.
and as you maybe know, there is a big DN market here too.

 

[blackhueo]

anything that is not a .com. .net and .org are still decent. things like .fm .mobi are just out.

 

[akcampbell]

.info is a good tld here in germany (and austria, swiss, etc.) and much more appreciated than in USA etc.
and as you maybe know, there is a big DN market here too.

Same here in the UK. .info isn't widely used but people accept it and it does get used. My local bus company uses it and it's printed on the side of all their buses; unobus.info. When I was buying .infos, I tried to buy from US sellers because Europeans always wanted alot more money.