New Domain Extensions

I like domain extension variety. It helps in identifying sites' content
to a more accurate degree. Nobody is going to mistake an .xxx and
what it contains, for example.
How much for highperformancesports.cars?

In terms of marketing to a layman sort of person, with little knowledge of TLDs, the .com will always remain supreme.

Seems like .COMs are still popular and highly valuable.

I've never seen any of these new TLD domains ranking anywhere. I don't think any major sites or businesses are moving away from .com/net/org any time soon. From a user standpoint it makes sense; it just seems like an extra unit of information to remember as part of the domain name.

I certainly hope so. These new extensions are garbage designed to make icann and the registrars rich. I hope everyone flocks to them so there are more .com, .net, and .orgs for me to register.

These are untested and have no advantage in the search engines and will be difficult for non-IMers to remember or even know that they exist.

Personally, I believe they are a waste of money.
There's all kinds of .com domains available.
They're just in front of your own eyes...
Just be a bit creative and think out of the sandbox.

Meharis

Shaneman..Besides the obvious that the big 3 are so well known and accepted by the public, The prices of the new extensions are way to expensive. look at the renewal fees. I just don't see domain investing in such an expensive, non-proven field taking off.
I don't if highperformancesports.cars is available when the extension goes to general availability.

If you are doing SEO, then forget about all these extensions domains.
Only pick .com, .net and .org
I have never seen any of these extensions ranking in Google, once we see them ranking in Google, only then one should consider buying them.

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The new domain exts will give more choices and variety when choosing a name for your website.. You will be able to recognize what industry a business is in just by looking at the ext. I think it's a good thing and they will become very popular.

The new domain names are as valuable for SEO as any other domain name.

There is technically no difference between a dot com, a dot net, a dot info or a dot garbage.

There are differences based on individual sites. If you get a link or even better a long article related to your site and keywords with a link and that site has a lot of authorithy, it does not matter whether that site is dot whatever or not.

Now, these new domains have a value aside from possibly making the companies that issue and maintain them rich:

These new domains can help with branding a product or service and they can act like a vanity phone number.

If that extension to gether with the name communicates what is "in the box" so to speak there is a definite value.

That means people and companies that have a product or service that can profit from such a name will be happy to buy such a name. They would then either build a site around it or direct the traffic to their already existing site.

Branding for those new extensions is particularly interesting if the company that uses the domain is advertising the domain (web site) on TV. Similar to those TV ads that have vanity 800 numbers.

So, if you have a business that could profit from such a new extension make sure you keep yourself up to date on the release and registration dates and grab "your" domain ASAP.

And if you do not happen to need such a name for yourself you can identify such domains and then register them and offer those names to companies that did not have the time or manpower to locate those names.

If you decide to register such domain names and sell them later, there is risk involved. Make sure that you do your homework first and not just register a bunch of names just because they "looked so nice".

If one name costs $39 and you sell one name out of every 10 you register, you would break even if you sell the name for $390. So make sure that you mark up the name enough to make it worth your while and still make it affordable for the company that eventually buys the name.

What about automatic link creation? For example; if I type http://boston.plumber (.plumber is an available extension) skype has no idea it's even a link.

I see that this forum did pick it up as a link as well as www.boston.plumber. It's probably not a problem in anywhere other than skype but people might not even get that it's a url and stumble around adding a .com to the end.

It's exciting to see such brandable domains though. I just spent a short while adding city names into Namecheap and in every one there's a huge niche service available (clothing, plumber, tattoo, land, singles...etc) in the new TLDs. e.g. www.newyork.tattoo, www.newyork.singles and www.newyork.land are all currently available. I may not be immediately seeing the opportunity but I feel there's one here somewhere.

The problems I have with them are;

1) Will people recognise them (when seeing in print for example) without thinking the .com is missing?

2) Will all markup platforms recognise them as links?

I will stick to .com's as I always have, the only thing I go for other is .net or .org and that is usually throw away sites for a trending subject that won't last.

I think it will always be .com on top.

No doubt but are these new TLDs totally worthless? I think; probably not.

No and in no way are they, they are good especially for flipping but with all the services and the bots out there it is very hard to get the good ones as they are snatched up really fast.

I mean if I was in the business of domain flipping I would go for them but that is probably the only reason for me.

Now if you have a brick and mortar business and to give you and example. Lets say they opened a new healthcare tdl. .nurse or whatever, I would actually buy a domain for my brick and mortar business learn to save hearts for it. I know it will make back it's investment.

As an internet marketer though, i burn through so many domains so quick the new tdls are not worth the price to me.

All of these new TLD's just make .com that much more desirable.

Top level TLDs like .com,.net etc

never get de-valued.

New TLD extensions are best for new era coming

i`m not sure what to say about this.. from one hand i believe it's more easy to identify the content of the website and more easy to remember but on the other hand, would the 3 letters at the end (ex: .org,.com.net etc) would make such a difference on forgetting the domain ? time will tell

I strictly stay with .com only

i got an email today from name.com asking if I would like myname.ceo

although the concept is exciting, i think all the extension will do is increase the value of .com, .org and .net

I will try to stick with .com whenever possible. I have been seeing a lot more .me lately though, mostly for rerouting and rarely for things like blogs.

you could get a cool new domain with a cool new extension and just redirect it to your .com
It should get some traffic from social networks

No, I definitely don't think those four will become less popular. Especially the .com.

That's the one extension everybody automatically thinks of when you mention a domain without the extension, and most of the time even when you mention the extension, by the time they go to type it in a browser, they almost always seem to remember the domain having the extension .com.

I use .com and nothing but .com whenever possible. That usually means not having the exact domain I want, but I find that having a slightly different domain name with a .com extension still seems to rank better and gets more visitors than the exact domain name you want with another extension.

I tried .net a couple of times with no great loss in rank, but when trying .info or .org or others, and don't even get me started on some of the newer ones like .ws, my traffic results have been a lot less than I initially expected or would have liked.

I would just use .com if at all possible.

To the general public, .com is king, and it will take a lot to usurp that throne.

Well its been harder to see the 2nd most popular domains like .net, .org and info in top 10, how can these new domains rank based on their extensions is to be seen. IMO if Google doesn't give weight to EMD's then they wont give to these new extensions either, unless the site had very good content.

I am not liking these new extensions.

They have to be considered a long term play. I would expect to renew for 5 years before it becomes clear whether or not the extensions are being taken seriously.

Just so you know, some of the new extensions are not yet set fully supported by safari. If you enter the domain without the http:// into the safari address bar, it will go to the search results page (not the website). If you enter the domain with the http:// it will go to the website. And if you enter then domain without the http:// on your next visit it will work, as long as you have not reset safari. If you are advertising your site offline this is not ideal as most people won't enter http:// and they will think your site isn't working. Have not been able to find any word around to the issue. Please add support for the new domain extensions safari !! Ones that have been available for longer than a month are still having this issue.

Hmm, sorry, I posted, then didn't get any notifications about the bunch of subsequent posts - until Kate posted. Weird.

I just saw Restore.net sell on Flippa for $5,100. I'm sure the .com would have sold for more, still ..... Like everything else, the value is dependent on how much someone wants it.

I just did a search for "wedding photography" and I'm on page one - with a .us domain. I guess I can't complain about that.

My head hurts!!! :-)

Also take into consideration that .com is the worldwide recognized prime extension.

Not all over the world people read and understand English extensions, so those new ones do limit yourself bit in a Geographical way.

Some of those might be cool for local businesses, like the .dentist extension or .plumber etc...

G.

I always see these weird extensions utilized no facebook in viral campaigns.


They will be used to sound something memorable like -

excuse.me or something like that. I've ever once seen one in a Google search.

Consider: The virtual keyboard on my Windows tablet has a '.com' button

Investing in these new extensions is a bit of a gamble, and it's definitely a long term thing. Most people outside of the internet marketing world aren't really following these new extensions and aren't even aware of them. Basically, it's not common knowledge. It's going to take for big brands to start using them for them to become more acceptable and popular. I mean most people don't know anything beyond .com, .net, .org, .gov, and .edu. If the big businesses don't use them, then they won't catch on.

I like this site as you can type in what your first domain choice would be and it searches all the new domains with one click much easier.
Domain Name Registrar for New Generic Top-Level Domains • United Domains

A few days ago were released new extensions like .tattoo .club, or .berlin which become an second most popular extension of new domain names.

For me as long as .com, .net, and .info still available, no more space to new extension domain. All IM, internet users are more friendly with old extension. That's hard for new extension become popular.