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New TLD’s – any investors or speculators?

Wondering if there are any domain investors speculating on the new TLD’s that are being released.

.photography
.contractors
.domains
.limo
etc…..

I personally feel like this is the start of a brand new internet and opens up a whole host of opportunities, instead of it climbing vertically as it has over the past 18-20 years with .com, now the internet will be more horizontal with the introduction of these new TLD’s.

These new extensions may be confusing as they are just being introduced, but kids that are coming into this horizontal world will always know that there is a .diamonds extension or a .coffee extension.  They will not be stuck on .com as much as they will already be familiar with these new extensions.

Secondly, if searching for a product/service/information online, 75%+ will start on google.  Since Google is heavily invested in these new TLD’s, they will start indexing relevant sites with the new TLD extension, and those sites will soon start to appear in search result pages.  So to the user, the extension will not matter so much as they trust what google returns as results, and will click on whatever google displays on page 1 of the SRP.

As you all may know, whisky.com was sold last week for $3.1M.  The owner invested in this domain almost 20 years ago, and has since turned down offer after offer to arrive at this figure.  Very similarly, if premium domains in the new TLD’s are picked up early enough and if the right buyer/end user is found, the opportunity to make some serious profit is still there.

I’ve been dabbing in a few of these names myself, purely speculation at this point.  I figure if you don’t get in the game, you’re not going to be a player!

So which one of us is planning on entering this horizontal world of WWW ?

Best,

Indy Singh
Platform.in