.Science which launched at the end of February is still adding more domain registrations a day than any other new gTLD extension by far on a daily basis
Yesterday .Science added another 3K+ domain registrations as it did the day before and the day before that.
Around 85% of all registrations are coming from Alpnames.com which gave away about 50K domain names for free and are currently selling .Science domain for $.49.
I’ve seen other registrars selling .Science domains for a dollar.
Of course .Science is not the only new gTLD that registrars are selling for very low cost.
I even have an offer for .Ninja domains for $.99 right now.
But I think its an indication of where the non-Donuts extension are being marketed and sold and I don’t think its good for the new gTLD program as a whole.
For the registry I get it.
They have to pay ICANN a minimum of $25K a year at $.18 per domain so they may as well have domains in circulation and pay the $25K than have 300 domains registered and still pay the $25K. A certain percentage of these will get renewed at normal rates next year so at the end an extension like .Science which isn’t a higely deep vertical especially for business, winds up with more registrations after year one than they could ever hope for.
I’m not sure how this type of marketing campaign that winds up with this many nonsensical registrations help the mission statement of the new gTLD program which is to give consumers choices in the domain space due to “all the good .com’s being registered”
I still believe that the new gTLD program could provide choices to consumers, startup and billions of people that don’t own a domain name.
However these free, to almost free domain programs, are looking more like the ccTLD of .tk which has over 25 million registered domains, than a revolution in the domain space.
Back to .Science, there are now around 127,000 .Science domain names registered
I decided to see what domain names got registered yesterday.
Here are the domain starting from 0-through the letter e according to Registered.Today (that list changes everyday)
Bottom line in my opinion there are very few domain registrations that make any sense or have any relationship to the .Science vertical.
What do you think?
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Jordhy Ledesma says
Great post Michael. It really helps in understanding what is going on in .Science.
Richard Downs says
You could just ask?
David J Castello says
Damn, all the good dotScience names are taken 🙂
Michael Berkens says
Actually some of the best are reserved
weird.science
learn.science
teach.science
mad.science
BlindedMeWith.Science
Colin Campbell says
I think .science actually has some merit where the word science can be used in a domain name. But to your example Mike, .tk has 474 in top million with 25,000,000 registrations. .CLUB has 334 in top million (domain punch.com/topm) after only being out for 11 months and just hitting 200,000 registrations. Free doesn’t necessarily translate into use. My prediction is that most of these free or nearly free names will falter and don’t have long-term sustainability. Phishers and spammers will be the only ones to benefit.
Colin
Allen says
Another .TK
For that matter, all of the gtld’s are like .TK in that they are a waste of cyberspace with no consumer support.
Brad Mugford says
This is a lesson in what happens when oversupply meets lack of demand. It is a race to the bottom.
Registrars are forced to give their domains away for free, or very cheap. These are worthless regs and will mainly attract spammers and scammers. It is just polluting the internet with more garbage.
At the same time, this is doing nothing to inspire confidence in the new gTLD program in general.
Brad
Michael Berkens says
Richard
Just ask what?
Lame says
Sorry, but .science is just too long. Asking people to type a 4 letter TLD turned out to be a very tough sell with .asia and others. But a SEVEN letter TLD? Just no.
Sure — there were a couple low hanging fruits there, and they’re now gone (or they were reserved).
Now it’s just an awkwardly long domain name extension.
George says
It’s obvious: these are all bot-registered domains being used by spammers.
Philip Corwin says
Great article, Michael. I salute you for going where the facts take you.
In the long run, this is a bigger stain on the reputation of the new gTLD program than even .Sucks.
And that’s saying a lot.
Jeff Schneider says
Hello MHB,
The new Quasi-Derivative gTLDs time and time again are dirtying the palet with shady Business.
Thanks MHB for the coverage KUDOS JAS 4/20/15
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) )Metal tiger)