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Caveat emptor
To make an analogy: you're buying swampland that's in the process of being inundated. Go ahead if you want, but no complaining later when it turns out to be useless.
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Re: Caveat emptor
Idiots will be typing in site.tech.com and going WTF!
Then go back to Facebook.com and forget that your site ever existed. Not only did you waste money on a useless domain but lost a potential customer too!
On of our clients wanted to use one of these new TLD's and in all their literature they started added "NOT .COM!" because people were complaining their website did not work.
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Of course, there are exceptions to the rule...
https://abc.xyz/
I've actually been seeing a lot more new startups using new tlds, and I'm not sure most people are that concerned with them.
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Among the TLDs that I've permanently blacklisted are: .xyz, .science, .download, and .top. I'm sure many more will follow, and I'm equally sure that others are way ahead of me. So I recommend against spending on a .tech domain, or anything like it, because there is a very high probability that in an attempt to maximize revenue, the registrar will discount the price and sell them in bulk. And that is exactly the market that spammers and other abusers go for: they buy hundreds or thousands at a time, burn through them, and move on. (This is why they're registrars' best customers: bulk business, repeat business. Heck, GoDaddy pretty much made it their core capability.)
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2. That was merely an example, for illustrative purposes. There are many other such lists, not all of which are public. Some of those have already blacklisted .tech, because they see where it's going -- and well, why wait for the inevitable?
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I'll be the first to admit my habit isn't really fair, but there it is nonetheless. And habits can change over time.
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