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The rising popularity of .Com in Australia

snoopy

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Just saw this one on tv during the Australian Open,

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Also in audio they said "rebelsport.com". I notice this currently redirects to the .com.au though I can imagine it may be only a matter of time before they make the "big switch".
 

nt81

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Even former auDA directors are saying it!

"Looks like more Australian companies are moving away from .au - a high risk namespace, no longer run or supported by industry. @CommsAu should not continue to endorse @auDA."

https://twitter.com/SimonJohnsonAU/status/966195492567871488
Utter bollocks
I've never had such high demand for .com.au regs in the past 5 years of working where I do.

Added to that, 90% of the population aren't even aware of the .au debate.
Sounds like someone's just trying to get a response from the twitter users they've tagged in to their clickbait piece.
 

snoopy

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Keep saying it ain’t so, there is a gradual shift taking place for a whole lot of different reasons. If .au ever came in the pace would quicken.
 

nt81

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Keep saying it ain’t so, there is a gradual shift taking place for a whole lot of different reasons. If .au ever came in the pace would quicken.
Perhaps offer some actual data and statistics that you have for said gradual shift.

The murmurs of random domainers isn't acceptable and doesn't represent what we at the coal face (retail) actually see.
 

snoopy

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So you're using top sites data to glean data for total (overall) domain registrations.

Cool story bro.

Overall registrations are close to going negative as well,

Count up how many of those numbers now start with a "-" at the front

https://ausregistry.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1803General.pdf

At the moment the whole thing is flip flopping between positive and negative, almost at the point of no growth.

auDA has mismanaged the namespace, instead of opening it up so all Australian's can register they have attempted to to bring in an unpopular new extension whilst making the red tape even worse .

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nt81

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From first hand experience, that has more to do with the introduction of the gTLDs than it does with something that most of the public are blissfuly unaware about (direct .au). I get about 5% of new domain reg requests being a gTLD now.

Further to that, the general availability of suitable domains already being sat on by people not even using them means that most of my clients spend a fair amount of time trying to find a domain that's even available.

Also, is that conglomerate data that takes into account the fucking massive amounts of .net.au domains being dropped last year because they were all sold for $1 in 2015 ?
 

snoopy

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From first hand experience, that has more to do with the introduction of the gTLDs than it does with something that most of the public are blissfuly unaware about (direct .au). I get about 5% of new domain reg requests being a gTLD now.

Also, is that conglomerate data that takes into account the fucking massive amounts of .net.au domains being dropped last year because they were all sold for $1 in 2015 ?

New tld's are in negative growth so that is hardly the reason,

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https://ntldstats.com
 

snoopy

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This graphic says it all.

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Global growth is going to .com. It is sucking all the air out of the room. Ponder those stats for a while.

"the threat of ntlds" is a nonsense argument presented by Australian supply side registrars and Ausregistry because they wanted Australia to bring in an ntld aswell, ".au".
 

nt81

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New tld's are in negative growth so that is hardly the reason,

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https://ntldstats.com

This graphic says it all.

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Global growth is going to .com. It is sucking all the air out of the room. Ponder those stats for a while.

"the threat of ntlds" is a nonsense argument presented by Australian supply side registrars and Ausregistry because they wanted Australia to bring in an ntld aswell, ".au".

The new gTLDs can be in negative growth overall. Doesn't mean that them existing doesn't have some affect on .com.au sales.

What I'm telling you is that (Australian Business) people looking to register new domains (and I see a fair few of these) are now turning to gTLD's more than ever fromw hat I see, every day of the week. Our gTLD sales are up about 80% year on year from this time last year, and we don't even market their availability or make them known to our clients.

Why? Our clients want a domain and the appropriate .com.au is being sat on already.

Sprout your stats all day long, I work for a business that does websites, hosting and domain regs and business is booming. I'm at the coal face, I know whats in demand. I manage plenty of domains, hand register several daily and have been in the business for over 10 years.
 

snoopy

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Sprout your stats all day long, I work for a business that does websites, hosting and domain regs and business is booming. I'm at the coal face, I know whats in demand. I manage plenty of domains, hand register several daily and have been in the business for over 10 years.

You asked for stats then you complain about stats! Where are your stats?

The ntld market is shrinking, the stats are clear, the graphs are horrible. It started within 3 years of release. Imagine how things are going to get in a few years time?
 

snoopy

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Noticed crazy domains offering .melbourne for under $7 today ......ummmm

Registrars have been doing this type of pricing on them for a year or so. It is still not making a dent because of the high drop off rate. Seems to be getting propped up with occasional mass registrations also (likely done at a very low rate).
 

Scott.L

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New tld's are in negative growth so that is hardly the reason,

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https://ntldstats.com

over exuberance (the pump) led to a false create rate (the High) consequently correcting itself (the drop) until it accommodates an arbitrage.
In other words, I doubt the gTLD and .au are actually in decline; its always in a state of optimization within the limits of their prospective markets. As for the .au market, the growth rate is not able to go beyond the policy restriction within which they exist. Any growth rate (under current policy conditions), even if its one tenth of 1% is extraordinary because, it should be assumed that registration growth rates coincide with that of new business registrations. (at a minimum)
 

snoopy

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They thought the address was cba.com!

Commonwealth Bank staff mistakenly sent emails that contained data of 10,000 customers to an overseas company, when they failed to include a ".au" on the end of the domain name "cba.com".

The bank on Friday said it had conducted an information security investigation, after it emerged that last financial year staff had inadvertently sent 651 internal emails to email addresses with the domain name cba.com, rather than the bank's actual domain name of cba.com.au.

CBA bought the domain name cba.com in April last year to deal with the issue, and from January 2017 it started blocking any internal emails addressed to the domain cba.com.

https://www.theage.com.au/business/...s-to-wrong-email-address-20180601-p4ziy6.html
 

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