Hey Chet.
You say
"What you, and other new gTLD registries, have done is make absurd claims about new extensions"
I say, please show me where I have made absurd claims.
You say
"You work for a company that runs the .horse extension and you haven't attended a major Triple Crown event."
Earlier you went off saying
"Pimlico. It's where the Preakness, the 2nd stop in the Triple Crown, is held. You can't get bigger than that in the horse industry. Pimlico is a notoriously bad area. So does the horse industry benefit the neighborhoods around Plimlico? No. Does .horse benefit the horse industry? No."
You seem to be saying, that only a person who had attended a Triple Crown race can comment on the horse industry or represent a domain targeted to the horse industry. Why you dragged Pimlco into the conversation is unknown, as it has nothing to do with this thread or how this thread got onto the topic of .HORSE. Your statements need no rebuttal from me as your comments stand on their own.
You choose not to accept my answer as to why MMX chose to use .CO for their COrporate website, but instead you first allege that it is because we do not "
practice what you preach" and then come back a few hours later and state is because "
gTLDs are getting blacklisted, bounces, or are unrecognized by mail servers". I stand by my response because the answer provided was truthful - whether you accept it or not.
As for .MIAMI, yes people are using them. See
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Furthermore, you can check the usage of any new TLD by searching Google using "site:.tld". Real businesses are using domains from the new TLDs, and that is a good thing. Every new website indexed by Google, helps the next business swing that way on branding. Every new business who brands on the new TLDs becomes an advocate and creates awareness through their own marketing efforts. The more end-user usage that happens, the more valuable the domains will become and that is good for investors.
You can be a naysayer all you want, and standby while the evolution passes you by. Changes are happening whether you are on-board or not. You can choose to badmouth the new TLDs, and anyone who registers them, or represents them. That is fine.
I stake my credibility on MMX and the TLDs we represent, and thus I use my real photo and my real name, and am fine with anyone seeing my public profile at LinkedIn (
https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorpitts/). I will share my opinion on this forum and others, when appropriate. When I do so, it is not based on just buzz words and hyperbole, but on verifiable data. When I first commented on .HORSE, I provided my opinion on the TLD and verifiable data to substantiate my opinion. While you may disagree on the data's relevance, or the opinion I concluded. No problem. You will not catch me making false claims, because my name is attached, and once you lose that - you are dead in this industry. Also, you will not catch me making half-baked absurd comments on other peoples opinions!
.jane .john? why not.
