A Forbes contributor, Johan Moreno published an article on Google, new gtld domains and .com.
Some of the stats are not correct, the author ends the article with the following:
.COM still holds about 22% of all TLD registrations, according to data from Domain Name Stat. A leading gTLD, .xyz, has about 1.36%.
Namepros member eCalc had the right numbers,
Domain Name Stat may want to get a new slide rule. Verisign is in a good position to know and here’s what they say: “The second quarter of 2020 closed with 370.1 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains … the .com domain name base totaled 148.7 million domain name registrations …”
source: The Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief Q2 2020
148.7 ÷ 370.1 = 40.2%
It’s a big world, there are some that are .com only and some just interested in new gtlds. I am open to viewing every situation on a case by case basis. I have made money in new gtlds but these broad sweeping statements, just don’t make a lot of sense.
Anything can sell, anyone can develop on the extension of their choice. What is the long term strategy that works out the best? Most times, not all, but most times it is with the best .com you can afford.
The author talked about sometimes a new gtld website outranked a domain name ending in .com. Really??? For what keywords? How competitive are the keywords? How competent is the person running the .com website?
A lot of smart younger people, are out there developing on new gtlds that’s not a surprise. They might be far ahead of some old school .com website that does not care about SEO. Look at the domain name industry, many don’t believe in SEO.
40% of all names registered is still pretty dominant. All these debates always seem to slight cctld’s. They never included them but they are a pretty large segment of the global domain name landscape.
New Gtld’s have been bopping up and down according to NtldStats.com.
April 2017 there are 29,447,005 registrations
February 2018 there are 22,692,244
May 2020 there are 33,707,047
Today there are 30,716,425
What’s to come? Another round of new gtld’s, .web eventually lauching. If you don’t own the right domain names as an investor it does not matter. If you own the right names .com can dominate and you can still make some money if you are selective and know what you are doing.
The lowest quality .com domains will go from little value to none as there are better options in cctlds.
good newgtld > garbage .com
Good cctld > Good new gtld
John Moreno! I wouldn’t trust him to take out my trash.
Get Marek in back in here to tell us about the new gtlds. Why didn’t they get Marek to do the article, anyway? Oh, because the readers would fall asleep.
EMD .com > anything except true love
My playbook remains the same and it’s worked for a long time:
75% .com (mostly 2 word, brandables)
24% one word premium key word in cctlds
1% handful of new generics: .global, .casino, .bet, .club, app
i play the long game…no outbound…what works for me might not work for others
Because there is no strong evidence proving that Google is or is not helping end the dominance of .com, I would not come into the “No!” conclusion at the moment.
Is it the end of “.com” ?
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Wow, I thought you were joking, till I took a closer look at your screen name and url. It actually gave me quite a nice laugh and I had thought the winky face was a perfect touch too. I’m serious and not just saying this to be unpleasant.
In 2014, we were told dotCOM was coming to an end with the launching of the new gTLDs and then we sold Whisky.com for $3.1 million. Last year, a prominent domainer friend told me that the big money days of dotCOM were history and then Voice.com sold for $30 million.
The domain “mountain” will continue to grow with extension after extension being added to the base, but dotCOM will always be the peak both in terms of popularity and value.
.com is, was, and will always be gold . . . with — except for country code extensions for companies actually operating within said country code country — there being no silver . . . nor bronze.
I purchase domain names for our company. To me domain names are just another resource. Of course we have the dot COM and that is used for our general site (landing page). We have and use company.live, company.blog and company.ai as approprite. We even use a country domain that matches the companies initials for internal use.
In other words we have tried to remove some of the magic of dot com and create a bit of a moat around the company name.
This article belongs in 2012 when new gTLDs were sprucing up like mushrooms after rain. Today, this article is just an attempt to sneak in a mention of Joe Biden.