Morning Folks!!
Google's .App is the Fastest Growing New GTLD. I have watched the numbers daily and going up against some 600 GTLD competitors, .App is registering more domains than any other. That is with the exception of .ICU. Really?? .ICU (a really crappy extension) had 24,000 registrations the first day, 450 on the 2nd day but by the 3rd day had just 8!!!! Not a single registration at Godaddy. .App about to be #18 and may be headed for a top 10 spot.
There is interest in .App. It's the first end user domain extension I have seen with elements that I deem tried and true. The others are all fails but that does not guarantee a .App win. Matter of fact we only have 1 new GTLD that has over 2 million registrations. .Top at 2.4MM. But don't get too excited. It was DOUBLE that amount on January 1, 2017. https://ntldstats.com/tld/top
7 YEARS of writing about new GTD's. ALL ANGLES. ALL VIEWPOINTS. But folks want to cherry pick. Here's a cherry for them. I have said that when a winning extension comes to market you will know it. I have said there may be room for 3 winners out of 1000 dead horses left on the track because that's what happens during a stampede. And sorry, one horse still running WILL NOT and NEVER WILL help the other horses laying lifeless on the track. The stinkers! All they do is rot and smell.
.App is the ONLY new GTLD so far that has demonstrated and exhibited ANY characteristics of an extension that can survive and thrive. There is demand. There are end users. It's 1 syllable that is pronounable and means something. It's backed by a GIANT that gives it "street cred" and they did not bastardize or cheapen their own extension by whoring themselves out.
Need, Want, Desire. STUDY the numbers. Dig DEEP. They tell a story. They show patterns. They show single fools registering tens of thousands of domains in a single day. They also show how many bogus registrations there are by closely held companies of the registries. Actually, it does not show that, but you can see and figure it out if you study the numbers. Also look closely at the registrations by registrar. NO Godaddy, no chance! Learn how to navigate and study this site. I do it almost every single day. DIG DEEP! Click and learn. https://ntldstats.com/tld
.App is total speculation. However the other 600 new GTLD's have been a waste of time, money and effort! They did not pass the simplest of tests. They were fools gold. They have proved to be fools gold. The registries made money. The money that formerly belonged to domain speculators that speculated on worthless garbage. All they have left are BILLS!
And when I studied DNJournal sales chart last night for the yearly top sales. Take a look at the GTLD section near the bottom. Of the top 100 sales of this year, 55 of the sales were .Net and .Org. 7 more were .biz or .info. Most of the GTLD sales were directly from the registry. What's missing are sales by domainers! GET A CLUE! http://www.dnjournal.com/ytd-sales-charts.htm
One need, One want, One desire and ONE PROJECT AT A TIME. That my friends is the future of buying and selling domains and that future started several years ago. The great "Domain Rush"of the 21st Century is OVER! The greatest technological expansion in history is behind us for now. Every business that IS a business has their domain. That was not true at the start of this century. Now we just have startups and upgrades. The new world order.
Lucas
“.App is the ONLY new GTLD so far that has demonstrated and exhibited ANY characteristics of an extension that can survive and thrive.”
What about .club? It looks to me like the most legit. of all the top 10 new GTLDs. Or is its performance disappointing and it will become just another dead horse too?
Rick Schwartz
I think .club is limited in many ways and I think they are struggling to keep registrations from diminishing.
They have lost in the neighborhood of 5% of registrations just since mid April with another 5%+ still to be deleted.
I believe they have peaked.
https://ntldstats.com/tld/club
Lucas
thank you for your clarification Rick!
Mark Thorpe
App App App and away! Top 10 by year end for .App, if not sooner.IMO
Top 5 in first half of 2019.
.Top will not be in the top spot by end of 2019, .App will be.
Mark Thorpe
Was talking to my account representative at GoDaddy yesterday and they said that .App is the most popular new gTLD rollout that they have been a part of.
Jose
These extensions have been many of them an economic speculation and app is not different although this behind Google.
Happy day.
Jose