Ever since the new gTLD program was launched I have been fascinated by how
different domain extensions perform and more importantly, the metrics that we
should really be using to judge performance. I
Every year SXSW brings a lot of people and money in Austin. Last year over
70,000 people attended the conference and $325.3M was injected into the Austin
economy – boom! The first
[http://www.uniregistry.com/]You can now buy a .XYZ domain name for a penny,
which means that $1 gets you 100 .XYZ domains. With domains like 88.xyz selling
for $70,000
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – change is coming to the domain
industry. Call it a fad, call it a bubble, but I think the reality is new
[http://www.wired.com/2015/08/alphabet-rewrites-the-domain-name-game/]Things
are heating up in the new gTLD space, so much so that I think it’s pretty safe
to say this is what Malcolm Gladwell