Radix Registry announced today that the new gTLD domain name extension .Tech crossed the 100,000 domain registration mark.
Here is an infographic published by Radix on .Tech:
Radix Registry announced today that the new gTLD domain name extension .Tech crossed the 100,000 domain registration mark.
Here is an infographic published by Radix on .Tech:
Nice Inforgraphic. Well done Radix. Good to see usage rather than parked domains.
Fabulous takeup statistics by new gtld .tech.
Cowbunga you say “Good to see usage rather than parked domains.”
awesomesauce.tech comes up with a page with a few links on, yet has a claimed 56.8k followers. What am I missing here? Tell me that these figures are for real! Getting a bit suspicious about all these claims by these new gtlds.
Do we need to put all the other .tech domain name claims under close scrutiny?
Ah I see it’s just changed to redirect to a .COM domain name awesomesaucenetwork.com. So the followers were presumably following the .COM. To really be persuasive that .tech is now king they should ditch the .com and just go to the .tech domain. However, doubt they will have the courage to do this.
Simply pointing a new gtld (that you may choose not to renew next year) costing a few dollars to an existing .COM domain name ain’t no big commitment. So please don’t create the impression that it is.
Leaving aside awesomesauce.tech for a moment, scratching the surface a little bit more.
designin.tech which has a claimed 429,000 followers simply diverts to a .COM domain http://www.kpcb.com/blog/design-in-tech-report-2016 which is a video.
Nowhere in the video do they mention the designin.tech domain name. Instead on the last slide of the video, there are references only to their established .COM domain name KPCB.com.
Many hundreds of thousands of companies have registered new gtlds like .tech. It costs the small change in your pocket so is not a major commitment and the majority are either leaving them idle and unused or are simply pointing them to their established .COM domain names. To give the impression that these new gtlds have hundreds of thousands of followers is misleading. No! These followers are to date built up on a following of the .COM domain name.
Having a new gtld pointing to an existing .COM domain name is a nicety which might be useful in the future, or might not. But again the true acid test of a new gtld’s success is if the owner is willing to take the plunge and actually promote the new gtld domain name. Next year maybe they will drop them having been an interesting experiment with little financial cost, or they may renew them simply because they cost just a few dollars.
It is incredible that there are so many followers for these recently, I presume recently, registered .tech domain names that simply redirect to youtube video pages. I presume recently registered .tech domain names because I cannot find a .tech whois that will reveal when these were registered. Hopefully someone can help determine when registered and why so quickly popular.
austin.tech 235000 followers diverts to a youtube video page
dom.tech 56800 followers diverts to a youtube video page
edgar.tech 55200 followers diverts to a youtube video page
Again – what do numbers really say about success if we do not have an understanding of how the names are being used and by who? That would shed some light on how much exposure beyond the industry, the TLD has received. That would be important to the industry to understand usage, exposure to the world-at-large. Some registrars do a great job promoting TLD’s (kudos to Name.com – always been my personal favorite because they find a personal way to touch their customers to let me know them know about a suitable TLD that I’d be interested in) and others, just offer it (nothing wrong with that as well). Power has shifted to Registrars. They are just a shop to sell TLD’s. Registries have to show us the value beyond numbers. You can have high volumes, but if they are in “placeholder” status OR, “parked” OR “Redirects” etc – where is the value and what is the risk of non-renewals? Give us some story to the numbers, registries!