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<blockquote data-source="post: 10825"><p>Last time I read snapnames report (the latest addition - state of the domain) .net and .org registrations were falling at a much faster than .com registration. </p><p></p><p>Total numbers of .com registered were down about 5% over the last the year, but total registration numbers are up about 400% if you stretch that out over 3 years. Numbers were something like 20 million.</p><p></p><p>That may have changed a bit over the last month or so since release but its very difficult to say new extensions (.info, .biz) are competing with .com when they appear to have;</p><p></p><p>- almost no corporate interest beyond redirects to .com addresses</p><p>- no or very little sales history</p><p>- registration numbers which are less than 5% of .com. </p><p></p><p>If anything it seems to me that .info/.biz names have been picked up by speculators in a far higher proportion that .com ever was. If you look only at % .biz/.info names have experienced high growth in past months, but only because you are growing from a very low base, so the statistics naturally sound impressive initially. Neustar themselves admit .biz (and .us) take-up has been far slower than anticipated,</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176748.html" target="_blank">http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176748.html</a></p><p></p><p>here's some interesting comments from the article,</p><p></p><p><strong>"As the market continues to age, it becomes increasingly clear that the demand for new extensions isn't robust enough to maintain any kind of growth," Kwak said. </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>"I don't think the pace of the growth in those new domains has been as rapid as some had assumed it would be," SnapNames spokesman Mason Cole said today. </strong> </p><p></p><p>So far all the arguments in favour of .biz/.info replacing .com is based on personal opinion and is not backed up by statistics of any sort.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE=", post: 10825"] Last time I read snapnames report (the latest addition - state of the domain) .net and .org registrations were falling at a much faster than .com registration. Total numbers of .com registered were down about 5% over the last the year, but total registration numbers are up about 400% if you stretch that out over 3 years. Numbers were something like 20 million. That may have changed a bit over the last month or so since release but its very difficult to say new extensions (.info, .biz) are competing with .com when they appear to have; - almost no corporate interest beyond redirects to .com addresses - no or very little sales history - registration numbers which are less than 5% of .com. If anything it seems to me that .info/.biz names have been picked up by speculators in a far higher proportion that .com ever was. If you look only at % .biz/.info names have experienced high growth in past months, but only because you are growing from a very low base, so the statistics naturally sound impressive initially. Neustar themselves admit .biz (and .us) take-up has been far slower than anticipated, [url]http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176748.html[/url] here's some interesting comments from the article, [B]"As the market continues to age, it becomes increasingly clear that the demand for new extensions isn't robust enough to maintain any kind of growth," Kwak said. "I don't think the pace of the growth in those new domains has been as rapid as some had assumed it would be," SnapNames spokesman Mason Cole said today. [/B] So far all the arguments in favour of .biz/.info replacing .com is based on personal opinion and is not backed up by statistics of any sort. [/QUOTE]
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