Tonight 1and1.com top 5 new gTLD pre-reservation list changed and amazingly .XYZ is now sitting at number 5 with over 45,000 pre-reservations.
The top five are now pre-reserved domain names in the new gTLD’s are:
.Web
.Online
.Shop
.App
.XYZ
Total number of pre-reservations are now over 3.2 million.
Wow
hmm, maybe some kind of European thing?
or, they watched Daniel’s video and were sold.
or, Fiverr?
Really? With some proxies and a bot anyone can make any extension get into the Top 5. We’ll see when everything launches because the sales numbers won’t lie.
A pre-registration is non binding, requires no commitment, and no money changes hands. Therefore taking those numbers and trying to project real world demand has very limited value. Obviously a system that is non-binding, where no money changes hands is very easy to manipulate.
Brad
Gotta keep pimpin those GTLDs. 1 and 1 has been running that misleading ad for a month now, and they only have 45,000 pre reservations? And that is good enough to be in the top 5? @ $10 price point thats $450,000. That would cover the application costs, a few weeks of marketing and a couple of boxes of t-shirts. We don’t even know if 1 and 1 will be selling .xyz domains. Not exactly a pre-registration panic as far as I can tell.
Great, the more classifieds the better. I am down for .GURU & hoping that the (G) God.Guru will put me at top !!
but seriously, in the long term, the more the better.
Berkens:
“are you letting your kids choose your titles now…” 🙂
To the rest: keep on drinking the pink ‘London Kool-Aid’
Domo
Yup Romeo picks all my headlines, he is one very cool dog.
Top 5? How about top 100.
Come to think about it…
Romeo really knows what he is doing…
By targeting the “Age bracket” most likely to be interested and register such an aberration of extension..
“18 and under”
(using Mom’s credit card)
Romeo you are a genius!
Would love to see the top 100 they are not publish it
Uniteddomains.com has their top 50 they are based on Germany:
http://www.uniteddomains.com/newgtld-ranking/
.XYZ will crush all other TLDs! .COM included. I’ve just been saying otherwise all this time, so less people will invest in the new gTLDs. I am pre-registering all I can, so I’m guaranteed to maybe get some of them! (sarc)
I’ve been gone for awhile on a biz trip to China and India… anyway, casually speaking to them, by far their first choice would still be .COM. Go figure. (not sarc)
Grim: VIP.com point in case.
Instant Prestige & ReCOMgnition = wind behind your back
Less traffic bleeding and less marketing cost.
This is all so .mobi.