Come February 4th we are going to have a distinctively different web. With the onset of domains such as .plumber, .london, etc. Am I just being nostalgic of a world of .coms?
It's a cash grab for ICANN, IMHO. There's no need for anything but country TLDs. How often do you see .aero, .museum or .name? Nobody uses those, why would we need any more? And people are used to websites ending in the normal TLDs, how much recognition would you get that, if you advertised with yourname.plumber, it'd be your website?
Maybe it's part of the 'corporations don't want to be bothered by countries' thing that's been going on</tinfoil>
I cannot argue if some people do not like them, I personally do not see a downside but I have not made up my mind if I will be using a new TLD.
That being said you think half of the registries will go Bankrupt? Allow me to take you through some Math..although I think this qualifies as arithmetic not math.
The bad TLD that was mentioned in this post was .PRO, .pro has 156K domains registered that not many compared to .com's 111 hundred million but
Registry charge between 12-20 dollars per a domain. Let's use 12.
Let's say this registry own only 1 TLD ( most own a few, donuts owns ~200)
Tlds - 1
Domains per a tld - 156K
Revenue per a domain - $12 = 1.872M
Marketing Expense - 10% of sales = 200K
Margin after operating expenses ( check out comps) lowest possible if you ask around is about 25%. = $374K
Thats assuming things really do not work out and they only have 1 GTLD. Once you have scale margin goes all the way to 60% which would make earnings 1m and if you sold the domains for $20 earnings would be 1.56M.
- all earnings are pre tax.
We will see but I would be shocked if half go under.
There's already a bunch of weird and superfluous ones that hardly anyone encounters (ever see a .jobs or .pro?), so unless they bother you, I don't think things will be any different come February.
Maybe it's part of the 'corporations don't want to be bothered by countries' thing that's been going on</tinfoil>