In a post on The Next Web titled, “8 myths about new gtlds” the author Jason Chernofsky decided to keep with one of the oldest tropes out there. .Com is losing its grasp. No, no it’s not. Jason also made the rather ignorant assumption that all .coms are owned by “squatters.”
The new gtlds need to point out their strengths instead of trying to create a false narrative about .com.
From the article:
Myth 5: .com is going to dominate forever
That said, ‘.com’ is losing its grasp. With squatters driving up the prices for ‘.com’ and availability limited for quality domain names, it’s becoming increasingly popular to choose a new gTLD.
And while there is no clear frontrunner amongst the new gTLDs, they have grown from two million domains to 22 million in just two years. This 1,000 percent increase makes it pretty clear that while ‘.com’ still has a stranglehold on being the gTLD of choice, people are starting to get used to new gTLDs.
You can read all 8 myths here. The article was a sponsored by Radix who is an advertiser here. Jason is not affiliated with Radix.
I read that article before and laughed.
Glad someone like yourself wrote something about it.
It’s ridiculous that new gTLD registries must resort to PAYING mainstream publications to write good articles about new domains.
Shows how desperate they are.
Those articles predicting the death of .com are a common occurrence but I don’t think readers are really paying attention.
Most of the time they are published by news outlets or writers that own .com domains and don’t make use of new extensions themselves.
Preaching water while drinking wine.
Articles like this were all over the place in 2014, proudly announcing the huge popularity of nTLDs (as evidenced by registration numbers) and predicting that .COM was used up and/or old fashioned.
Back then, consumers didn’t have enough data to know the truth. It seemed possible that there was this secret wave of nTLD registrations about to turn into millions of nTLD websites … and that companies who didn’t jump aboard would miss the bus.
But it’s nearly 3 years later, folks. Consumers DO have eyes. They can see those nTLD websites haven’t materialized in huge numbers, while older .COM sites continue as before alongside NEW sites built on .COM as well. Few people (apart from domainers) bought into this notion 3 years ago when the future was still a dim guess. By now, that “future” is the actual lived experience of everybody online.
Personally I think nTLD domains can be a good idea. But it’s foolish for registries to keep peddling this 2014 argument.