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Will new extensions fail in future ?

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  • Sure. New extensions will fail in future

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  • Useless / irrelevant names may fail. But all new extn will grow for related names

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First of all If this subject has already been discussed, mods please delete this thread.

Now there are lots of new extensions coming everyday. like .vacations, .mba, .phd, ,xyz... and so on.

Every day tons of .com domains are expiring.

Do you thing the new extensions will boom for a small period craze and then become worthless?

Thanks in advance to share your inputs
 
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First of all If this subject has already been discussed, mods please delete this thread.

Now there are lots of new extensions coming everyday. like .vacations, .mba, .phd, ,xyz... and so on.

Every day tons of .com domains are expiring.

Do you thing the new extensions will boom for a small period craze and then become worthless?

Thanks in advance to share your inputs

I think Most will fail , few will succeeded. it depends on your definition for success also...
 
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Yes most of them will become worthless..

One thing clear no matter how many new extensions coming everyday..

I personally think that 2 letters TLDs such as .IO, .LY, .ME, .TV, .TO, .IN, .CO will become more valuable and make the internet after .COM, .NET, .ORG..

Even though they're ccTLDs will eventually become gTLD..

support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922

Cheers!
 
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Well they will never become gTLD they will be treated like a gTLD, Google calls them Gcctld.
 
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I don't think new tlds will fail in future...they are going to stay just as the other tlds... It will definitely depend how people take these tlds...they cannot be competitive to .com but they will be used as alternative to .com domain because most of the good keyword domains are already taken and people will look for the alternative... .io TLD has history around it..the first .io was registered in 1998 but its after so many years that people started to think this cctld can be a good for "Tech startup"... So imo although they are new tlds, they will take time to gain popularity.. :)
 
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I don't think new tlds will fail in future...they are going to stay just as the other tlds... It will definitely depend how people take these tlds...they cannot be competitive to .com but they will be used as alternative to .com domain because most of the good keyword domains are already taken and people will look for the alternative... .io TLD has history around it..the first .io was registered in 1998 but its after so many years that people started to think this cctld can be a good for "Tech startup"... So imo although they are new tlds, they will take time to gain popularity.. :)

Similar to .io , one day you might see .COM becomes an old fashion and people will run to new modern gTLDs!..and thats how .xyz are trying to position themselves..they say the .xyz is for the "Next Generation of Internet Users"....why not...
 
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Similar to .io , one day you might see .COM becomes an old fashion and people will run to new modern gTLDs!..and thats how .xyz are trying to position themselves..they say the .xyz is for the "Next Generation of Internet Users"....why not...

I think the nGTLD revolution will come much sooner than most on here people think. I'd forget about this year for most nGTLDs to enter the conscious mind of most of the world. I strongly sense that 2016 will be the breakthrough year. Some of the nGTLDs are really good extensions and affordable. Forget about .biz.. and the few GTLDs from the mid-2000s. That was just the very teeny tiny tip of the iceberg.
 
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Thanks all for sharing your thoughts. More opinions welcome
 
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The only thing that I've learned from these new tlds is that people are saying a lot of them will be profitable for the registries even with a low number of registrations. If that is a case then they will survive. They won't be profitable for domainers though.
 
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Why do women spend $x,xxx for coach bags when there are other brands out there that have the same quality?

Did Payless shoes store put Nike and Air Jordans out of business? Did Nike and Air Jordans lose some business? And if so, to who? (People who couldn't afford it in the first place)

When you're in a grocery store and you walk down the cereal isle and you see Frosted Flakes, and right next to it you see a knock-off brand of Frosted Flakeys, there will be people who will opt/settle for the cheaper Frosted Flakeys.

The concept of bargains will apply to domain names just like it applies to clothing, food, cars, real estate, etc.

If domains are virtual real estate, people who settle for the .io's are the New York hipsters who rent very nice apartments in bad neighborhoods because they can't afford prime location in Manhattan (aka .COM)

Can a domain extension possibly become "gentrified" as a neighborhood could in real life? Yes. The new neighborhood that is now gentrified (.gtld) has property values that go up (domains on that extension aka apartments go up in price) - Does original Prime location real estate value go down due to this? No, it continues to go up through the years and becomes only that much more prestigious. (.COMville)
 
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I guess some of you guys are unaware of these things called stats. They suck.
http://www.registrarstats.com/TLDDomainCounts.aspx

Or the people behind them say stuff like this:

“We’ve priced the product higher quite simply because we think it’s significantly superior,” Tindal says. “We think of this product as three or four times better than the equivalent .com, and at this point, the market is telling us we’re right. They’re paying those higher prices for our superior product.”

http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2015...id-new-land-grab-on-the-web/?single_page=true

If you actually believe these are 3-4 times better than an equivalent .com, it's time to get your head checked.

It's really not that complicated.

Low reg numbers = low demand.

Many new extensions = people who can't get a .com and want to settle for something inferior have endless options, they're not going to need that new gtld you're holding onto.

Similar to .io , one day you might see .COM becomes an old fashion and people will run to new modern gTLDs!

The registrars/registries love that you think that way.

You guys look at these low numbers and from that you think - It's got a great future. Really? Or .com with 116 million regs and growing is going to become old fashioned, while the new ones with a few thousand are going to be the thing?
 
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Many new extensions = people who can't get a .com and want to settle for something inferior have endless options, they're not going to need that new gtld you're holding onto.

That is correct, but is send.money inferior to sendmoney.com? or go.green inferior to gogreen.com or stat.domains inferior to namestat.org... Why!!
 
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That is correct, but is send.money inferior to sendmoney.com? or go.green inferior to gogreen.com or stat.domains inferior to namestat.org... Why!!

Yes.

Why is a Rolex superior to Casio? They both tell time.

One comes with history, legacy, prestige, awareness, credibility, and possibly type in traffic.
There needs to be a paradigm shift to change that.

Brad
 
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.com is the Rolex

certain ngtlds are the smart watches
 
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Yes most of them will become worthless..

One thing clear no matter how many new extensions coming everyday..

I personally think that 2 letters TLDs such as .IO, .LY, .ME, .TV, .TO, .IN, .CO will become more valuable and make the internet after .COM, .NET, .ORG..

Even though they're ccTLDs will eventually become gTLD..

support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922

Cheers!

Best one I would even gamble with is .CA
 
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