Just hand regged my first .ninja today. I think I got lucky! All extensions taken except a few at super premium prices. Try searching available extensions for "xyz" or "ninja"
Got some nice .45cent .club today at NameCheap. The feedback on this thread helped me know I wasn't alone in liking the potential of .club.
Anyone else register any of their fav new gtlds this weekend?
@Ategy.com Just a note on spam.
No domain has more spam than .com
If companies want to block legit customers because they have a cool new GTLD...well that's not very smart.
@decode .. granted .. but no tld has more important emails than .com either .. I'm fairly sure those people who block new TLD's are more interested in the ratio of spam to legit emails .. if the number is ridiculously high then they just kill access for that particular TLD.
It wouldn't surprise me that for most company's most ngTLD emails are 100% spam .. not even that there are a lot .. but that they don't expect any emails from the new ones anyways .. so blocking them to kill the spam makes sense to them (I'm not sure what I would do .. just telling you what's supposedly happening in the real world ... )
I listened to a couple of interviews on companies that switched to new TLD's .. and seems they still kept their old emails ... this could change over time .. I'm thinking TLD's like .app .co .lawyer .bank and others that are more professional and geared towards actual company end use will have one more chance success for that reason as opposed to hobbyists (.cool .sexy .ninja etc) where a business does not expect any serious correspondence.
But on top of that you could have IT managers who have no clue and block some randomly without knowing any better ... but certainly the cheaper TLD's are the ones that are going to attract spammers .. combine that with the intended end user and unfortunately there will be IT managers who blanket block entire TLD's .. but at the end of the day the big question remains unknown .. which TLD's .. and more importantly is it just a few isolated IT managers, or will it become a trend and standard in email security .. at this point I have no clue what the answer to that is ... but I do know "white list" email lists is becoming more and more common .. which kinda sucks for anybody/anything new ...
Yes .. but again same as I mentioned before ... plenty of legit emails come from those as well .. I'm not saying it's the right or wrong thing to do .. just that I've seen discussions mentioning it's being done. Now that could mean 1 out of a million companies are doing it .. or 1 in 10 .. I have no idea .. and I'm not saying if it's right or wrong ... but there is logic to the logic of blocking non-serious TLD's if you're getting some spam and not expecting any legit correspondence. There are millions of legit gmail, hotmail yahoo accounts out there with a lot of important correspondence .. the same logic dictates not to block those ... for the IT managers it's likely all about ratios and risk and productivity.
But even then .. there are some sites that do actually block access to register with those free emails .. I use my free mail most of the time .. but when I have something serious I almost always use one of my professional emails ... but it's not for fear of getting blocked .. it's more just to be taken seriously ... in business both your domain and TLD matter when trying to make an impression.
