While at was at ICANN chatting with Applicants and others in the domain space the question I found myself being asked the most was about .XYZ.
.XYZ has been very aggressive pushed the envelope when it became the first to auction off new gTLD domains names through Namejet.com
So I reached out to Daniel Negari whose company is going to operate the .XYZ extension (and .College too) to see what his vision for the extension is, what’s up wit the Namejet.com auctions and what the hell he was thinking when he applied for it.
What is .xyz?
Put simply, .xyz domain names are for every website, everywhere. When I was selecting a potential domain extension, I wanted something that would be internationally recognizable. .xyz is the only domain extension that can be identified by any language, since the letters X, Y, and Z are universally recognized as the last three letters of the Latin alphabet, and also represent the three dimensional axes. In other words, an individual does not need to speak English to understand what .xyz is. And because .xyz doesn’t have a literal meaning or connotation, it offers end users the flexibility to create any kind of presence they desire, rather than being labeled by an industry, location, or other niche.
Because the namespace is so crowded, it’s tough to find a short and recognizable domain name that is also affordable. This is where .xyz comes in. As an affordable unrestricted namespace, we are the first truly generic domain extension. We are firmly committed to keeping the purchase price, as well as renewal fees, low and competitive.
So when users are looking for the flexible domain name they’ve always wanted, they will have the choice to register a .xyz.
Both businesses and individuals will appreciate the value of .xyz domain names.
We want people all over the world to be able to share their knowledge, passion, and interests without having to worry about high start-up costs or needing a return on their investment.
With .xyz, these users can purchase an affordable and memorable .xyz domain name without sacrificing flexibility or recognition.
In fact, we want to help promote these individuals’ websites by offering design and SEO services, featuring them on XYZ.COM, and building in other benefits so that they are able to better connect with their audience.
As we say in our office, we end the alphabet with XYZ, so we end a domain name the same way.
What is the launch process for .xyz?
.xyz will be available to the public in Q2 2014.
We reached a major milestone this week when I executed the ICANN Registry Agreement on Tuesday. The next step for us is to perform predelegation testing. We are working closely with ICANN and our backend provider, CentralNic, to launch .xyz at the earliest available date.
The first phase of availability will be called the Sunrise, which gives Trademark Holders the opportunity to acquire their domain name prior to General Availability.
Exact launch dates will be announced in early 2014.
Why are you auctioning off premium .xyz domain names without reserves?
We are giving the early adopters an opportunity to secure premium domain names at insider prices. These equivalent domain names would cost exponentially more if they were being sold by other registries. But as innovators in the namespace, we want everyone to have an equal opportunity to own a short and memorable domain name.
The overall goal of the NameJet advance auctions is to give the individuals who have been following us the chance to get in on the ground floor.
As an affordable, generic domain extension,we are anticipating a very high volume of registrations.
These auctions reward the early adopters with a first-to-market advantage before the surge of registrations by the general public.
Auction winners will be able to get a head start on building out their .xyz sites, have a chance to be featured on XYZ.COM and our future registry page, and receive joint press opportunities with us.
We are just getting started on our awareness campaigns and will be turning up the heat leading up to our global launch in 2014, so be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook so you don’t miss out.
How are you able to auction off .xyz domain names if ICANN hasn’t delegated the extension to you yet?
We ventured into uncharted territory when we decided to team with NameJet to advance auction .xyz and .College domain names. Because this has never been done before, we worked very closely with our legal teams to make sure we were not breaking any rules or disappointing any potential customers.
We were able to accomplish this by auctioning “purchase options,” which can be exercised once .xyz and .College have been delegated to us and we have gone through the Sunrise period.
This means nothing is being allocated at the time of auction, and the winners do not have to pay for the domain names until after the Sunrise period has concluded and they have received notice from us.
What if I win a .xyz auction and the domain name becomes unavailable?
Because this is an option contract, the auction winner does not pay anything for the domain name until he or she actually purchases it (for the final auction price) once it is available.
This is worth repeating – you are NOT responsible for paying the auction price until it is available after the Sunrise period.
We are not trying to create unnecessary risk to our potential customers.
If .xyz domain name is won in NameJet’s advance auction and becomes unavailable, either because of collision or is acquired by a Trademark Holder during Sunrise, the auction winner is not liable to pay NameJet or the registry anything.
What if I win a .xyz auction and decide I don’t want the domain name once it is available?
Don’t buy it.
This is the beauty of the advance auction.
The auction winner is entering into a nonbinding option contract to purchase the .xyz domain name if he or she wants to once it is available in 2014.
If you win the auction then have a change of heart, that’s ok.
We don’t need a reason.
There is no termination fee, no contract, no agreement we will hold you to.
Can I resell the .xyz domain name I win in the auction?
Yes.
Once you are notified and exercise your purchase option at the auction closing price, the .xyz domain name is yours. Auction winners will have the freedom to set their own pricing if they choose to resell their .xyz domain names.
Has the advance auction information been formally published somewhere?
Yes, NameJet published the terms and conditions on their site prior to the advance auctions going live (Section 4, “Advance Auction”).
Will I be able to transfer my .xyz domain name to the registrar of my choice?
Yes, you can see a partial list of the registrars we are partnered with to carry .xyz at xyz.com/registrars.
We are already working very closely with many of the largest registrars on the internet and are reaching out to new ones on a daily basis. As a global extension, .xyz will be available at most registrars.
If your favorite registrar isn’t carrying .xyz, we want to know. Send us a tweet at @xyz and we’ll reach out to them. Make sure to contact to your registrar’s account manager or customer support representative to let them know you want a .xyz domain name. We’ll be sure to announce when each one of them signs our RRA on Twitter and Facebook.
What are you doing to spread the word about .xyz?
Although we are in the very early stages of our awareness campaigns for .xyz, we have been able to generate much more buzz than any other domain extension out there. We’ve accomplished this primarily by being extremely proactive in reaching out to registrars, communicating with the media, developing a strong social media presence, and doing a lot of targeted advertising both on and offline.
As a registry, we believe our top priority is to generate awareness about our domain extensions and put the registrars who will be carrying our domain names in the best possible position to succeed. With comprehensive business and marketing plans in place, we are educating registrars on the value of .xyz domain names so that they are able to share that message with their customers closer to our launch.
With all that being said, we already have agreements in place with most of the top 10 registrars and many boutique, niche, international and growing registrars.
I still don’t “get” .xyz. Why should I choose a .xyz domain name over another extension?
Our registry is built around connecting with people.
That’s why we created “Generation XYZ,” or the idea of creating a community for individuals regardless of their age, location, or interests. .xyz is meant to be more than just your average domain extension. It has character – an identity. When you register a .xyz, you know you are getting a domain name backed by a passionate team who genuinely wants to see innovation on the internet.
We see how quickly the internet is growing and all of the new ways people are using it to communicate.
It’s amazing how many people from emerging markets are coming online each year for the first time ever.
Unfortunately, these individuals didn’t have the opportunity to register an affordable and memorable domain name before. With .xyz, we are giving them that chance to create an online presence that is not only short and memorable, but also affordable enough to purchase and maintain. It’s a fresh start for internet users around the world.
The internet is still in its infancy, think about how far it has come in a little over twenty years. .xyz is going to be the platform for everyone all over the world to connect, share their ideas and designs, and cultivate knowledge.
My hope is that by introducing an affordable, recognizable, and unrestricted domain extension like .xyz to the world, we as a community will continue to innovate, and hopefully be an inspiration to the next generation of internet users.
If anyone has any additional questions, please reach out to us on Twitter at @xyz.
“Although we are in the very early stages of our awareness campaigns for .xyz, we have been able to generate much more buzz than any other domain extension out there.”
And there you go. Appreciate Daniel’s pioneering style. One of the many reasons new TLDs will succeed.
it seems more like self promotion than truth. besides the usual domainer blogs (of whom daniel is friends with) and namejet, i haven’t heard anything about .xyz elsewhere.
Eager to see how Daniel and the team do with .XYZ
He is a very sharp guy – I wouldn’t bet against him…
Again, it will be very interesting to see it all unfold.
Good luck Daniel. I know you’re well equipped for success!
Your refer to .XYZ as global, international, worldwide. Nothing is further from the truth.
1) Less than 35% of the global population use the Roman / Latin alphabet..
2) In many of the national alphabets there are no X, Y or Z. e.g.
There is no X in the Polish or Turkish alphabets
There is no Y in the Romanian alphabet
There is no Z in the Icelandic or Swedish alphabets
There are no X or Y in the Slovenian or Italian alphabets
There are no X,Y,Z in the Irish, Scott Gaelic or Hawaiian alphabets.
3) In EVERY non English language XYZ are pronounced differently and with a different accent.
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To summarize: Less than 10% does not make it “global, international, worldwide”
why would .xyc or dot anything succeed if .us hasn’t, not to mention .net, .info, .biz . tv, .mobi and .everything else
the only reason to release all these new tld’s is so that few at the top can make money at the domainers expense
when the dust has settled .com will be made even stronger by the clutter and chaos caused by the host of new tld’s.
Good luck Daniel. I know you’re well equipped for success!”””
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He is equally equip for “failures” too!!!
Hey, after all he is just a kid ,has lots of money to burn and nothing to lose.
When you have so much money, you do not feel the effects of failures.
BullS –
I guess we’ll see. He’s done well for himself so far and YES, does have a lot of resources at his disposal.
It will be interesting to watch it all unfold — everyone agrees on that 😀
Define what success is on dot xyz?
What the level of measurement? 250K registrations is good?
“There is no X in the Polish or Turkish alphabets”
Not true, there is x in Polish alphabets.
Anyway If I decided to register new TLDs I would register more than 500 other extensions before going to .xyz.
.xyz does not make any sense and does not look professional too. Its like blabla extension.
One indication of XYZ internationalization is the Verisign namespace collision report showing, if I recall correctly, Philippines as using .xyz names, where Filipino is also written using Latin script. It remains to be seen whether it’s an attractive extension, but its global characteristic looks undeniable to me.
There’s only one rubric to measure success of string: how Registrants are benefiting from it’s use. If the Registrants get no results, or advantages from using any string, that one is a failure.
Polish Alphabet:
The letters q, v and x, are used only in foreign words, are frequently not considered part of the Polish alphabet.
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Ok to the guy above spamming his name, you need to check yourself….
Just because had some early success in the .com space, does not mean nothing in this new world of GTLD’s… some of the brightest domainers are clueless about it, going forward.
Yes, .xyz is nothing more than a cheap trick, basically it means nothing, and they know it. It stands for nothing… Yes, Morgan Linton has been pumping it, he has also been bidding quite a bit on the namejet auctions, how you read this, is anyone’s guess, but by the statements above, you can pump the auction, and not pay, leads way for false, and inaccurate auction results.
This guy is not out here to help you, he is here to help make money for himself, at the end of the day, he want’s your money, and a .xyz registration fee… if you got 2000 gtld’s coming out, why the heck would anyone even consider this in the top 500… .xyz is jibberish, hence worthless.. good luck ranking, or getting any consumer trust.
Domenclature: its sorta bad taste to be selling your (crappy as hell) domains on a blog that isnt yours, in the comments section.
but welcome to the internet. your domains suck. dont register anymore and go buy some beer
I never quite figured out who made the rule that it is, somehow, bad taste to promote beautiful domain names on blogs? Who came up with that silly rule? Instead of talking about stupid .xyz, I’m giving Berkens something to blog about . Those are products and business names for sell at only $799
Instead of shelling out $5,000,000 to buy Ass.com, just do it year-by-year, and make your money À la carte.
We innovate for our clients at Domenclature.com
Outside a handful of domain blogs pumping .XYZ, I don’t see much real world interest.
Also Domenclature, it is in bad taste and cheesy to promote your domains on another person’s blog that is clearly unrelated to the subject.
Just adding a year to the end of the a term makes no sense. Who is going to want to replace their domain yearly?
Brad
“The auction winner is entering into a nonbinding option contract to purchase the .xyz domain name if he or she wants to once it is available in 2014.”
If the auctions are non-binding then what is the point? It is basically the same as a preregistration. There is no cost. You are just declaring interest without obligation.
Since there is no obligation it is going to be easy to play games. Oh look at the demand for .XYZ as Money.xyz sold for $100,000 at auction! The fact that it is non-binding means any high numbers are worthless.
These auctions are a great way to show false demand. That is a primary part of any pump and dump.
Brad
“Who is going to want to replace their domain yearly?” Mugford
Listings2014.com is separate and apart from Listing.com. As the name implies, if you are in real estate, and you want to make money from fresh REO, or homes for sale in 2014, you are better off with Listings2014.com, than with Listings.com. If you garner a billion dollars worth of listings next year, 2014, and close just 5% of the homes, or commercial property, then that’s a bargain compared to the $799 you layed out for Listings2014.com. Besides, we’ve sold 8 of the names in the last few weeks, so somebody must be gaining from it. IKEA purchased Catalogue2013.com last year, and are doing quite well with it.
Everything is judged on value, and how the end-user benefits from names.
Products come out with new versions, or models each year, so it makes sense for consumers to search by year. Nobody wants last year’s model.
Domainers need to think. Every name is not for PPC, or sell. Some are really for use.
If you take a look at the trend in domain name push, including the HA Auctions which I have praised, unfortunately, even the HA people are trying to yurn end-users into “domainers”, instead of the other way around. HA has a list of clients who are based in purchasing products for use, or investments that translate to end-users, but with introduction of domain names, these people are being offered names that they will hold and make money off of, instead of names that they can use in their business.
Lastly, Mugford, you’ve never heard of people buying keyword names that forward to their main site? They don’t have to change their main site to purchase these 2014 names. Be it phones, Consoles, electronics, or whatever, new and distinct models come out every year, and consumers want the lates year’s model, and that’s how they search for them. They don’t want last year’s model.
@Domenclature:
RE: “I never quite figured out who made the rule that it is, somehow, bad taste to promote beautiful domain names on blogs? Who came up with that silly rule? Instead of talking about stupid .xyz, I’m giving Berkens something to blog about .”
like i said, welcome to the online world.
nobody, or no one group of people, made that rule but anyone with any sense agrees it exist. it exists because if it didnt people could post an endless amount of unrelated comments on any thread and it would be confusing for people to read random advertisements with zero structure. i cant believe i had to explain that.
@Domainclature
OK, you spent $200 registering all that noise… The whole purpose of these blogs is to inform, and educate people, and if you understood anything, it is better to take that $200, and pour it into 3 $69 backorders, or buy 1 solid name for $200… If you really looked around you could purchase a solid category domain for $200 on a drop…
Anyone even remotely thinking about buying any of that pigeon shit above, please seek professional advice…
@Jenkins,
I’m boycotting the drop-catchers to protest the insider trading with Registrars, and bring Domainers back into the food chain. In essence, I’m looking out for your ass!
Besides, I don’t want anything dropped by anyone. I’m doing quite well with innovations thank you. This year belongs to us.
@ Berkens,
Please moderate this your blog, and admonish people such as ontheinterweb guy, or I’ll reluctantly, stop visiting your blog. And yes, it’s a big deal.
“Please moderate this your blog, and admonish people such as ontheinterweb guy, or I’ll reluctantly, stop visiting your blog. And yes, it’s a big deal.”
Admonish ontheinterweb for what exactly?
That is amusing coming from a person who just spammed this thread with a list of domains for sale, then a long post trying to justify the value.
Brad
i was going to respond but im starting to believe domainclature is simply a character and not a real person that really thinks that way.
just trying to figure out the trolling angle.
or he is actually that clueless.
XYZ WILL be a financial success for Daniel. XYZ COULD be a financial success for those that buy the domains. XYZ WILL NOT be a success because his friends are doing domain stories for him. It will have to run on its own merit. Nobody is denying Daniel is smart and a great guy. They are merely questioning why XYZ will succeed where others can’t. So far the only answer I’ve heard is “Because Daniel is smart and hard working”. I’ll take that over nothing but I think I can make better use of my money elsewhere. I said the same thing about dot co even though they were throwing money at domain bloggers, lavish parties, and millions at promo. Dot co made great money as a tld but ask the guys that bought the domains how they’re doing. They’ll be the first to tell you they should have put the money somewhere else.
The business model is completely flawed. XYZ represent coordinates in geometry but more importantly they represent the unknown numbers. So which company would like to reference itself to representing the unknown? You can translate .xyz to .unknown. Imagine cnn.xyz providing the unknown news and reports……yeah, we’re just kidding.
what possible uses of this TLD, excluding Math and 3-D markets? (e.g. SketchUp.XYZ)
I think he has a pretty good sales pitch, especially, “we end the alphabet with XYZ, so we end a domain name the same way.” It is memorable. .XYZ is certainly not any worse than the duds Google is hocking over at “Charleston Road Registry” (.BOO, .HERE, .RSVP, .MEME…). If .INFO, .NAME and .TEL were just being introduced in this round, I think people would be saying they were the best of the bunch. When you think about it, .COM’s greatest asset is its head start, rather than the fact that is stands for “commercial.”
@Domainclature
Whois info from your domains:
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: Uzoma Ojogho
CALIFORNIA
Uzoma Godfrey Ojogho, 32, had been convicted of 17 felonies relating to his business, Tower Communications, at 11440 Ventura Blvd., officials said. He was sentenced to six years in prison in October, 1991.
@Brad Mugford,
Take a look at:
2013Catalog.com purchased, owned and used by IKEA. And they have already purchased 2014Catalog.com
It’s a giant, modern corporation, and probably knows what they are doing a little?
Of course we own 2015Catalog.com, 2016Catalog.com, 2017Catalog.com…
With your logic, then leasing a domain makes no sense at all, since the lessee would have to change domains every quarter or so?
In our we sell a lot of premium orthodox domain names such as the ones on your site, but we go beyond that to sell practical names, and lots of brand-able names as well. Do visit.
@Jenkins
You may believe you’re anonymous and assassinating someone’s character online, but remember this blog can be forced under subpoena to reveal your true identity.
PrisonMakesYouCrazy.xyz
Which is better: PrisonMakesYouCrazy.xyz or PrisonMakesYouCrazy2014.com?
The number one rule, in my opinion, to year names, it must be product, or service related. Such as Calendars, catalogs, products with models, lists, etc.
no no… lets hear more about you getting a subpoena for this blog and your threats to “never read this blog again”
you’re aware that is the silliest thing in the history of comments on ANY blog ANYwhere online is to say “well if you dont do this im gonna stop reading”…. you’re aware how silly and hilarious and cute and adorable that is, right?
@ DomainClature
Oh I am sure you know all the ins, and outs of the laws no doubt.
Everything stated to you iss public record, maybe you should google your own name, you are making a fool of yourself. The article was published by the LA TIMES, so you might want to set your legal aces on them…
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-04-23/local/me-26434_1_state-revokes-license
I think these guys should have applied for .LaLaLand, I just watched the Negari interview at Domain Sherpa and he seems like a very smart guy but when he said they are expecting 1 million registrations in the first year for .XYZ and 5 million in the first 3 years I almost fell out of my chair. That is flat out impossible! .CO which had a huge marketing push and was well accepted in the domain world barely got 1 million registrations in its first year and it had ZERO competition. I repeat ZERO competition. Can someone please explain to me how in 3 years .CO has 1.5 million registrations with again ZERO competition but .XYZ is expecting more than 3 times that amount with MASSIVE amounts of competition. Especially competition that has a better extension than .XYZ.
If we could compile a list of the first 500 extensions to be live where would this extension place on that list? Once you figure out where it lands on the list you will then easily see whether it will succeed or fail. Do not choose your GTLD winners based on their own success or failure against themselves but against the competition of the better extensions. In other words don’t choose your winners on whether you like the extension but whether it is better than the next extension.
.net.org.co.tv.info these are generic extensions NOT .xyz
In my country there is a saying:if 3,4 people are telling you “you are drunk” then you should go to sleep.
Judging by this trend i rely think you really have no future with this extension.
Don’t say we didn’t tell you so !!!
Domenclature.com
You know they are all horrible domain names
@CMAC
Fox Business:
http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/entrepreneurs/2013/11/19/beyond-com-startup-bringing-xyz-and-college/
“You know they are all horrible domain names” – Berkens
@Berkens
That’s what makes our markets, and capitalism work; while some people are bullish, some are not; while some buy, some sell. Some long, some short.
But, the element of jealousy I detect, is not part of the thing. We’ve added gaming2014.com and Hotels2014.com and issued a coupon code to save $100! Visit.
@Jenkins
Here’s an article that says you are a murderer:
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/celebrity/jasmine_fiore/1.html
I like short extentions.
What’s the point of typing .whatever when you can use .ws, .net, .co, .in, .me, .com, .org, .cc and .XYZ?
🙂
Keep in mind that we use the DOT at the end of the phrase and not in (.) the middle.
I kind of like XYZ.
@Shane Cultra
Yup, I’m one of those guys (not a domainer, just an end-user) who bought a “nice” dot-co domain name and now I’m having buyer’s remorse. Had I known about this blog and all of its valuable info way before the purchase, I would’ve spent the money on a new camera lens. I realize that with the arrival of thousands of new gTLDs, my chances of ever selling my dot-co domain name are getting slimmer and slimmer every day. At this point, I’m not even trying to recoup my money spent. Instead, it’s at a significantly lower BIN price and has yet to be sold.
/rant
%iAlan your post doesn’t make a lot of sense. You claim to be an end-user yet you lament your slim “chances of ever selling my dot-co domain name”. Very rarely do end-users list their “failed” names in the aftermarket. They just let them drop.
Getting back on topic, back around year 2000 there were plenty of “domainers” woozy with dreams of selling their genericXYZ.com (generic123.com etc. etc.) domains when generic keywords were already long-gone, and these kinds of names were universally despised when listed for appraisal in the forums. abcwidgets might have been shown some love, but xyzwidgets not so much. In fact, never. Why should a .xyz extension be any different?
it shouldnt in this situation.
the guy made a mistake trying to go for a “default TLD” in a world moving toward ultra specific TLD’s.
i doubt there will be any demand for a “new default” thats “for everybody” when there are 1,000+ specific TLD’s that will resonate with what im trying to ACTUALLY say…. cheap.parts, book.club, custom.kitchen, etc..
.XYZ is another meaningless ending like “.COM” has come to be (yes, initially it meant “commerce” but now it is just THE default)
aiming to be the “2nd default” is risky in a world of a bajillion SPECIFIC TLD’s…
“Put simply, dot .xyz domain names are for every website, everywhere.”
and the rest are not?
Lie # 1:
“dot xyz is the only domain extension that can be identified by any language”
Those letters DO NOT exist in the # 1 most spoken language in the planet.
Period
This is how good this aberration of an extension sounds in spanish:
Punto Equis Y griega Zeta… so much for short!
lie # 2:
“we are the first truly generic domain extension.”
uh?
“also represent the three dimensional axes”
Who fudging cares? dot tv is “far more recognizable’ “at least by a factor of 1000” it represents the King of Media “already positioned and established in our daily lives” and look how far that got it…nowhere.
‘And because dot xyz doesn’t have a literal meaning or connotation, it offers end users the flexibility’
first is generic then suddenly it doesn’t have any meaning
vague as they come, another moronic statement…
Lie #3
‘The internet is still in its infancy,”
the countries that matter, English speaking countriesand most developed countries are near saturation,
are you talking about 3rd world countries?
“by offering design and SEO services, featuring them on XYZ dot COM”
What a vote of No-confidence on your own extension, why you didn’t choose ” com dot xyz “?
The one and only global extension is/will ‘always’ be is the Dot Com…
Look at Alexa ; China rankings: 8 out of the first 10 are dot coms.
As the Frager says:
” No other TLD says or will say Global” period.
There is 2 kinds of new gTlD supporters;
1) The ones that have a stake on the “snake oil” factory
2) And the ones that either don’t have good quality domains either because they missed the boat or are new a this… and are hoping for a “gold rush”…
Only fools and “weak minded people” will buy into this presentation…
.TV & .CO are doing just fine, if you got the right keywords, if not even .com won’t help you. I made 20x or more on my investment on both these extensions, no complaints here.
Which is why ontheinterweb is correct in pointing out “cheap.parts, book.club, custom.kitchen” etc. above, domains that make sense will always do well – like meet.me did.
The day of the extension fanboys are done, if you’re one, you might as well burn your money, at least it’ll keep you warm for a few seconds.
There will be a fair bit of ROI to be made by investors in newgTLDs, you can keep crying that they’re useless, or you can make hay when the sun shines.
I find .xyz a bit of reach, but that’s probably because I’m slightly older than their target audience, who knows it just might catch on with the startup crowd like Morgan says – after all they adopted .ly & .io quite happily, much to everyone’s surprise.
@samit, RE: “The day of the extension fanboys are done….”
its why i think people attempting to pick the “ones that will do well” using the old way of thinking are completely off the mark.
i completely disagree with the spirit of what is being said when people say stuff like “.web will probably be one of the good ones”
“oh, .parts i can see doing well”
crap like that is over… they’re all just going to be phrases with a dot in the middle… the only “traction” a TLD really needs is staying above water financially. there is not going to be a mass exodus from .COM to use .parts TLD when it “gains traction.”
that is too hardline of a stance. there are too many gTLD’s to “gain traction” with the old way of thinking.
lets think about it a different way: if it would make a great 2 word .COM domain – it makes a great domain hack.
ChicagoLighting.com, Chicago.Lighting
ExerciseEquipment.com, Exercise.Equipment
DansPlumbing.com, Dans.Plumbing
and on and on… even “crappy, limited, narrow” gTLD’s have “lots good ones that make sense.”
the fact that many of them are “limited” is irrelevant and kind of the whole point, being there is going to be THOUSANDS of them. even the geo .NYC is limited to some extent. obviously this is one that will probably have more volume of registrations but that doesnt translate into good .NYC domains suddenly being worth lots of money. i think its going to be REALLY random and anyone focusing too much on the gTLD itself and not the “(new) domain hack” is off the mark.
/coffee thought