Godaddy stops Support for ALL Uniregistry TLDs

[dog]

GoDaddy strives to provide its customers with great product experiences wherever possible. After careful consideration, we decided to stop offering new Uniregistry domain names for sale because their pricing changes caused frustration and uncertainty with our customers.

For existing customers who have Uniregistry names, GoDaddy has partnered with Hexonet's 1API GMBH to take over the backend management of the domain names. Customers will continue to manage their existing Uniregistry domains through the GoDaddy platform.

We will be reaching out to customers impacted by this with more information in the coming days.

First Namecheap?

https://www.acorndomains.co.uk/threads/namecheap-dropping-support-for-18-new-gtlds.149344/

Now this? What other registrars will stop carrying new gTLDs?

 

[JMI]

And the biggest domain ponzi scheme In history begins to come to an end..

 

[Adam H]

Whats the odd's on Mike Mann claiming to have predicted this years ago

 

[dog]

True!

And the biggest domain ponzi scheme In history begins to come to an end..

Yes, most of the veterans that are not running a new extension, working at one, or personally invested have been vocal these are terrible.

Whats the odd's on Mike Mann claiming to have predicted this years ago

Did people see stats keep dropping?

https://www.acorndomains.co.uk/threads/namestat-total-new-gtld-numbers.148164/

 

[RobM]

And the biggest domain ponzi scheme In history begins to come to an end..

Wow who could have seen this coming? A total surprise to me

 

[dog]

Will you offer new gTLDs with your new registrar Rob? Or not worth the hassle?

Wow who could have seen this coming? A total surprise to me

 

[RobM]

To be honest things are on hold at the moment. I'm not sure there's enough of a margin there but it's just uk domains anyway. People either expect to pay cost or seem happy with the appalling service of 123reg and gospammy. I don't know if there's a place in the world for a normal registrar. I worked out it would need about 1500 registrations/renewals per month to even make it viable to use staff on it and that's at a tiny profit or breakeven. I'm frustrated with the uk domain market but even more compounding now is the mindset of new entrants and I just don't see much of a growing future for this namespace. Nominet seem determined to hold the namespace back with archaic charges, quotas etc which are not part of other tld namespaces. They only want to reward gospammy and 123reg and that is most likely because they earn money through 'unofficial' collaboration - who benefitted from an unwanted extension and price hikes? I don't trust them enough to build any further income around them.
Anyway aside from all that gtlds are rubbish. They only existed to make registars rich and, although some succeeded in fleecing registrants, I'm glad to see a lot losing their shirts. I had to put up with the 'abuse' through the .mobi hype train and we've seen it all before. It is no surprise.

 

[dog]

I believe there is always a market for good registrar services. NS grew by word-of-mouth. They have done little advertising.

https://www.acorndomains.co.uk/threads/namesilo-reaches-1-million-domain-milestone.149394/

To be honest things are on hold at the moment. I'm not sure there's enough of a margin there but it's just uk domains anyway.

Registrars are not earning much.

We've seen deteriorating relationships between registries and registrars. Why else would this happen?

http://adamyamada.com/namecheap-drops-support-xyz-registrations-transfers/

With regards to .mobi...

"I own no .mobi names. If it were possible to own a negative number of domain names to further distance yourself from the name space, I would probably own “negative thousands”

-Frank Schilling

http://www.domainbits.com/mobi/

Anyway aside from all that gtlds are rubbish. They only existed to make registars rich and, although some succeeded in fleecing registrants, I'm glad to see a lot losing their shirts. I had to put up with the 'abuse' through the .mobi hype train and we've seen it all before. It is no surprise.