Why I love end-users bringing up GTLD alternatives...

[tomcarl]

In the last couple of months, I've had a couple of people try to bring up other TLDs during negotiations. One was for .blog another was .io

I find these so easy to rebuttal that I now almost welcome these "gTLD" objections. It opens a door for me to better elaborate on the value of my domain.

For the .io guy, who told me he can get the same name on .io for $30, I sent him a link to the sale of Agario.com, a domain that once had next to no liquid value or type-ins, now gets a ton of free traffic, and sold for $10K in an auction simply because of the popularity of Agar.io. I sincerely wished him the best of luck with the popularity of new project using .io. In response he increased his offer substantially than his initial lowball (which was still less than what I would consider, he was a small-time app developer and just didn't have the budget). Till this day, the .io version of my domain remains unregistered. He probably opted for another .com within his budget.

For the .blog guy, I replied the same, but this time also referred him to Twitch.com which was acquired by Amazon after acquiring Twitch.tv, and also educated him on the fact that there was no way that the keyword.blog equivalent of my domain was going to be available for a standard regfee (it's a 3-letter 1-word), it'll be either taken by another investor or have a premium renewal, not to mention increase the value of my domain should his blog become a success. They emailed me a week later with a higher offer, again one I don't care to accept.

So just a word of advice when negotiating, gTLDs make your domains more valuable folks, not less. People just have budgets to work with and have new options to settle for, and for those who settle and find a gtld will help them be looked at as "innovators" and will "stand out" - Go right ahead, you're driving up traffic and demand for a keyword or phrase available on thousands of other extensions, including the .com that is sitting there getting more traffic than it originally did, waiting to be purchased, likely by another innovator with a bigger budget.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

p.s. Relatively a small number of endusers are doing websites for mass usage...
So .com is not critical for them at all. And their defensive purchases are usually low $x,xxx and no more than $5K.

 

[ZapNano]

OMG! Why there is an even a question of which product and services are produce to make money. Either small or big money making service or product; there are all for business purpose! Meaning product and services are produce to make money.period. Wow and Wow!

 

[offersity]

I guess the problem here with np nowadays is some members tend to create thread just to spread/defend their bias opinion, otld or ntld.

You begin to wonder if they actually make money...

 

[MR Harrist]

for small biz ppl, blogger and seos and etc. cctld and NewGTLd are the best option to get emd domain for easy optimization! but for company using NewTLd, I can tell the future of his business are in danger! I am not fan of dot com! and also , I am not NewTld hater! but unfortunately every time I heard some advertisement and want to check their site, most of the times, I always type dot COm! so, I can't imagine if they advertise his website using new TLD , I am sure millions of ppl will go to dot com extension!
but for ppl that just want to rank and bank without advertisement or what so ever, I don't think dot com are necessary! cause most of the time, I can easily smack dot com, without having any difficulty at all! so dot com only goes for big company, but small pll, dot com are no needed, unless you want to spend 5 figure! ,

 

[MrConor]

The new GTLDs are really just eye candy, many registrars selling at a cheap registration price with the renewal price in small type (Most domainers on a budget could not afford the annual renewal price)

No matter how sweet all the new GTLDs look on the eye they will never replace the .COM

Many domainers have picked up these 'eye candy' TLDS and realizing its hard to sell them off.

So as sweet as they may look you are always better to stick with your .COM

 

[Maxwell]

I always say there is a reason it's available

 

[dordomai]

I always say there is a reason it's available

and that is no one in the entire world wanted it!

 

[John Hilpp]

I look at new gTLDs with an open mind, although .com is king and will likely remain so for a very long time.
However, if I were a beach house builder, and BeachHousebuilder.com is taken, which it is, BeachHouse.Builders seems mighty attractive.
Secondly, if a consumer googles 'beach house builder', BeachHouse.Builders has as much chance to be #1 in the results as beachhousebuilder.com
Also, since NewHomeRentals.com has been scarfed up by Zilliow, NewHome.Rentals allows a new player to jump in with a winning domain that can score well in search results, and be memorable.

 

[Asfas1000]

Right now an end user is using the "gtld alternatives" to drive the price of my .com lower

For some reason, it's fun !

 

[GTLD92]

Most of the end users don't even know about gtld's

 

[tech_noir]

Twitch.com has definitely more value than Twitch.tv but IMO Twitch.tv has far more value than TwitchTV.com

Same thing for your .blog domain ...
Let´s say your domain is TradingBlog.com ...
IMO Trading.blog has more value than the 2 words .COM domain because is shorter, more specific and is a ONE word domain name, so comparable to Trading.com as well ...

New gTLDs that make sense together KEYWORD+EXTENSION have more value (or will have more value over the years / they are not well known right now) than the matching 2 words .COM domain.
Internet is changing and new generations will definitely adopt the New gTLDs which still in their infancy ...
Just my opinion !!!

My point too. It just makes sense.
Besides, imagine starting a business of for example online cads now and trying to aquire a dictionary word like Cards.com for instance. I've been there. Cards.Online might do the job perfectly and still be remembered and searched far lot more than JohnsCards.com
Yes of course, it is good to hold Cards.com or have some x xxx xxx budget.

By the way as traffic has been mentioned. I have some newly registered CHIPS.us that make whole lot more traffic than just as new nad good .coms while one popular one-keyword gLTDs attract close to none (maybe because there is already an indexed content for these).