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<blockquote data-quote="jmcc" data-source="post: 2350858" data-attributes="member: 80388"><p>Sorry for the late reply. Been a bit busy working on a project involving all the ccTLDs. Most of the ccTLDs were aimed at the local market and had restrictions on ownership. As the markets evolved, some of them relaxed their regulations and allowed foreign registrations. The problem for domainers is that without knowing the dynamics of the local markets, registering a "good" keyword domain name in a ccTLD and expecting to be able to sell it for a high price rarely happens. Some of the larger ccTLDs have their own domainer communities and have got dropcatching down to an art.</p><p></p><p>The repurposed ccTLDs (those that sell to a global market like .TV, .CO etc) have similar dynamics to the small gTLDs but ccTLDs are subject to local regulations rather than ICANN regulations. When the ccTLD registries make the jump from being run from the Computer Science department of a university to being a stand-alone registry business, everything becomes focused on renewals and revenue. Sometimes, a repurposed ccTLD can get the timing right and gain a lot of registrations. The .CO ccTLD was very lucky to be able to do that and the management team and marketing teams were excellent. It did that in a completely different market where the only gTLD competition was from the legacy gTLDs (COM/NET/ORG/BIZ/INFO etc) as the new gTLDs had not launched.</p><p></p><p>Many of the ccTLDs are dominating their local markets at the expense of the gTLDs.</p><p></p><p>Regards...jmcc</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jmcc, post: 2350858, member: 80388"] Sorry for the late reply. Been a bit busy working on a project involving all the ccTLDs. Most of the ccTLDs were aimed at the local market and had restrictions on ownership. As the markets evolved, some of them relaxed their regulations and allowed foreign registrations. The problem for domainers is that without knowing the dynamics of the local markets, registering a "good" keyword domain name in a ccTLD and expecting to be able to sell it for a high price rarely happens. Some of the larger ccTLDs have their own domainer communities and have got dropcatching down to an art. The repurposed ccTLDs (those that sell to a global market like .TV, .CO etc) have similar dynamics to the small gTLDs but ccTLDs are subject to local regulations rather than ICANN regulations. When the ccTLD registries make the jump from being run from the Computer Science department of a university to being a stand-alone registry business, everything becomes focused on renewals and revenue. Sometimes, a repurposed ccTLD can get the timing right and gain a lot of registrations. The .CO ccTLD was very lucky to be able to do that and the management team and marketing teams were excellent. It did that in a completely different market where the only gTLD competition was from the legacy gTLDs (COM/NET/ORG/BIZ/INFO etc) as the new gTLDs had not launched. Many of the ccTLDs are dominating their local markets at the expense of the gTLDs. Regards...jmcc [/QUOTE]
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