stats on new extensions

[anothernewbie]

just curious if anyone knows of TYPE-IN traffic that strong .info, .biz GENERICS get as of today

if you have .info, .biz domains with TYPE-INS, can you please enlighten us on your traffic

thanks

 

[David G]

Originally posted by anothernewbie just curious if anyone knows of TYPE-IN traffic that strong .info, .biz GENERICS get as of today. if you have .info, .biz domains with TYPE-INS, can you please enlighten us on your traffic. thanks

First let me say I am a big fan of the new dot-US and think it has great potential. However, as of this date I do not believe any extensions get any worthwhile type-ins at all except dot-com.

That's especially true of biz whereas established ext like net and org may get an occasional type-in but biz and info even less frequent.

I have some domains where I own the non-hyphenated .com, the hyphenated .com and the net, org and/or .us too. The only one getting any type-ins is the non-hyphen dot-com. However, the others may have value as far as search engine traffic goes. The extension and hyphens seem to not matter regarding SE's.

 

[DomeBase]

Hi anothernewbie,

There is precious little data on this. A couple anecdotes.. like the following post:

http://forum.icann.org/cgi-bin/rpgmessage.cgi?newtldevaluationprocess;3D5584AB0000116C

I have three pretty good generic .infos -- but the websites are new and not much traffic yet.

One thing I can track is the numbr of .INFO sites on Google as a % of .COM... as an indicator of sites working (and indirectly, use).

Number of insiders and speculators who scarfed up top generics and are just letting them sit there fallow continues to be a problem. Also, little/no advertising from registry yet. If .INFO succeeds, it will be despite these things.