Comments on: The top 5 TLD flops, ever

By: Muzika

Muzika — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:59:07 +0000

Not sure I would agree that an extension that did not start could be a failure. XXX is not a failure because of the idea, some just don’t want it from a political standpoint.

By: Joe M

Joe M — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:41:19 +0000

I think people are getting confused as to the point of the original comment about .info sites being banned on Google and elsewhere. The point was not that .info sites are banned as a result of their using .info as a TLD. The point was that many spam/malware perpetrators know that their domains will be banned within months (no matter what domain they choose), as a result of their sites containing spam or malware. Therefore, the best strategy for them is to simply register the cheapest domain they can get, and since .info regularly has very cheap registration costs, they pick that TLD (renewal costs don’t matter, since it would be pointless to renew the domain after it’s been banned anyway), which fills the .info domain with a lot of garbage, making the ratio of garbage to honest websites higher than usual in the .info domain. I am not surprised to hear, and wouldn’t be surprised if it were true that 7.5% of all .info sites contain unwanted content.

By: Internet Marketing Expert

Internet Marketing Expert — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:52:41 +0000

I wonder how many internet users really look at the extension of the domain when using search engines. If someone searches for a certain keyword, and the title and description of a website in the SERPs are exactly what he/she is looking for, then I do not think it matter much what the extension of the domain is… Furthermore I have several .info sites ranking high in Google, Yahoo and Bing.

By: Chris Clemson

Chris Clemson — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:03:24 +0000

@Brandon Checketts:

.ws has got nothing to do with “website”, it’s the Country Code for Western Samoa!

Personally I’d add “.biz” – most of those sites I have come across have been as dodgy as the .info ones mentioned.

By: MIchael Sharp

MIchael Sharp — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:38:22 +0000

This is a great read linked from WHT.

Here’s a success story for us:

Paid $70 for a .fm ccTLD (Federation of Micronesia), some tiny little dot in the Pacific Ocean.

We asked hundreds of people what .fm website made them think of and they almost all said, RADIO. They are still very expensive though. But for us it worked.

By: Everything.tv

Everything.tv — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:37:06 +0000

Not sure I would agree that an extension that did not start could be a failure. XXX is not a failure because of the idea, some just don’t want it from a political standpoint.

.Tv is a cctld certainly has not been a failure, it is a niche extension that if the niche is right, there is interest in the name. You cannot reg anything.tv as it does not work.

Where is .jobs on the list ?

By: gfy

gfy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:23:41 +0000

Greg Matthews documented nothing other than saying he sold them for a 300 % return. There were no reported sales or screenshots of bank accounts or paypal accounts. Next.

By: Randy L Pendleton

Randy L Pendleton — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:34:13 +0000

The writer of this is a noob who doesn’t understand the Internet. He should read this & then leave the rest up to the pros: http://www.namepros.com/industry-news/615588-top-5-tld-failures.html#post3619525

–RLP a.k.a Archangel

By: andrew boucher

andrew boucher — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:32:15 +0000

I think the .XXX would be good because all parents would have to do is block that extension instead of having to find each site or category they didn’t want their kids to see.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:53:36 +0000

@Garin Kilpatrick : how can you say that a ccTLD is a failure? that doesn’t mean anything, so .tt isn’t a failure at all.