More gloom predicted for .com (1.Viewing)

NewsBot · Feb 8, 2025

Verisign is predicting more shrinkage at .com and .net in 2025, despite a few notes of optimism from its CEO.

The company said last night that its two flagship gTLDs shrunk by a combined 3.7 million domains in 2024, a 2.1% decrease, as I flagged up a couple weeks ago, and that its growth this year will be between negative 2.3% and negative 0.3%.

The quarterly loss was around 500,000 domains. Verisign ended the quarter with 169 million domains under management.

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MapleDots · Feb 8, 2025

More gloom predicted for .com

It's not doom and gloom, it's the constant price increases that have the greatest effect.

I just dropped 50+ .com's and 150+ .ca's because the increases are having a real effect.

In my opinion the price increases will further erode the domains registered.

For instance I just received the above in an email from CIRA and it's the same thing with .ca, the constant price increases are causing me to drop hundreds of domains and CIRA gives the money away. It's almost like I am forced to do charity I don't want to do on the back of my renewals.

With every price increases .com and .ca will pay a price, watch and see.

mcm · Feb 8, 2025

NewsBot said:
The quarterly loss was around 500,000 domains. Verisign ended the quarter with 169 million domains under management.

The issue is, if they lost 500,000 domains by raising their price $0.67, they still would have increased their revenue by over $100 million.

rath · Feb 8, 2025

@MapleDots, how do you decide which names to drop? Is it on the basis of trends, relevance or something else and what was the longest holding period from the ones you let go?

MapleDots · Feb 8, 2025

rath said:
@MapleDots, how do you decide which names to drop? Is it on the basis of trends, relevance or something else and what was the longest holding period from the ones you let go?

I base it on traffic stats and a thorough review of possible end users, if a domain gets no type in traffic chances are its a dud.

I use umami FREE webstats

When they get ZERO or near zero for traffic you know you need to review them

Example:

You know that domain has got to be dropped because technically the traffic is non existent.

rath · Feb 8, 2025

MapleDots said:
I base it on traffic stats and a thorough review of possible end users, if a domain gets no type in traffic chances are its a dud.

I use umami FREE webstats

When they get ZERO or near zero for traffic you know you need to review them

Example:

You know that domain has got to be dropped because technically the traffic is non existent.

Insightful! Thanks for sharing.

MacMan · Feb 11, 2025

Domainers and their pigeon shit.

A cleansing is in progress!

I saw a few stories about Network Solutions having fewer dot-com registrations and down a few percent.

Let's be clear about what these domains are composed of. These are the domains that not even the pigeon shitters will buy because they were the ones that bought the pigeon shit to begin with. So these were domains that mean nothing and have no value because if they did, they would've been picked up by someone in this audience.

And that cleansing is a great thing!!!

Hopefully, This will occur several more times and will help drive up values. It may not be good for Network Solutions and their numbers and profitability, but it is VERY good for domain investors.

The “Domainers” that bought that crap to begin with are gone, and there's no one stupid enough on the planet to repurchase it!

You need to clear out the garbage. This means those pigeon shitters are out of business, and there are no pigeon shitters coming to replace them. That's a good thing. The ranks of domain investors are not 100s of thousands. They are a few hundred. That's it. And about 95,000 yackers.

This has very little to do with GTLD's. These are the worthless domains that probably had a bunch of numerals or decimals or whatever crap they put in it to fool the search engines and now they're worthless and useless.

So let's hope that this cleanse continues because the cleansing cleans things up for others to see more clearly.

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