I’m quite surprised that at this point, domain forums don’t have a marketplace section for new gTLDs. It would be an important step towards generating reseller market activity, so the fact that there’s no such thing yet is definitely not good at all for the new extensions.
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Domainers and Registry Operators, A Short-Term Paradox?
Posted on 22 August 2014 by Andrei
The Dot Investments new gTLD has 877 registrations after the first day of General Availability and while that number is not exactly impressive, the registry did reasonably well financially. Why? Because a .investments domain costs about 2x – 3x more than most new gTLDs.
High New gTLD Registration/Renwal Fees – Let’s Crunch Some Numbers
Posted on 21 August 2014 by Andrei
As mentioned yesterday, I liked the Dot Investments extension but at 80+ bucks a pop, I decided to pass because I just don’t see how there can be any money in it for domainers at these price levels.
For How Many Years Are You Willing to Keep Renewing?
Posted on 19 August 2014 by Andrei
Yesterday, I posted about the fact that in the absence of end user new gTLD adoption and of course sales, domainers will not keep renewing inventory.
Where Are the End Users?
Posted on 18 August 2014 by Andrei
To be fair, now is *not* the time to start asking that question. This post’s objective is simply pointing out that the “it’s too early to ask that” argument can only work for so long. At this point yes, it works because it actually is quite early in the game but we will eventually have to start addressing this question because absolutely everything depends on it.
Should You Buy and Hold “Hot” Domains?
Posted on 16 August 2014 by Andrei
If you’re not sure what “hot” domains are, here’s a quick example: NNN dot coms or numerics in general, if you will. In other words, I’m referring to domain categories which have done remarkably well lately.
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I Think Most New gTLDs Will Be Profitable
Posted on 14 August 2014 by Andrei
… but that in pretty much all cases, “barely profitable” will be the appropriate term and that’s not exactly a good thing given how high the expectations were.
Attacking Dot Com Is Not a Viable Marketing Strategy
Posted on 12 August 2014 by Andrei
I found out about the fact that Donuts published a post on their official blog with the title “The Importance of Semantics and Affinity, and the Meaninglessness of .COM” over at OnlineDomain a few moments ago.
Quite frankly, this marketing strategy leaves me scratching my head and I’ll try to explain why.
Domaining and Time Zone Issues
Posted on 11 August 2014 by Andrei
Those of you who live in the US probably don’t consider time zone issues a topic of great importance but in my case for example (and I’m sure I’m not the only one), the situation is quite different.
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A Few New gTLD Development Considerations
Posted on 08 August 2014 by Andrei
I’ll be developing a very strong one word new gTLD domain (Stocks.XYZ) soon as an experiment (I’ll turn it into a megasite with 100+ articles) and for the most part, there aren’t *huge* differences between developing a new gTLD and developing a dot com, a ccTLD or a legacy TLD domain.
