More gloom predicted for .com (3.Viewing)

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.

Read more: More gloom predicted for .com - Domain Incite

More gloom predicted for .com​

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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.

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

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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.

@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?

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?

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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.

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.

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Insightful! Thanks for sharing.