Peter Dengate Thrush posted the tweet below in reference to a Namepros interview with the owners of Stockbrokers.com. I presume because Stockbrokers.com was acquired for $185,000 and the application fee for the first round of new gTLD domain extensions was also $185,000, Peter mentioned the following:

For 185k they could have applied for .Stockbrokers, and owned the building rather than be a dotcom tenant https://t.co/NSmg2C9R9f

— Peter Dengate Thrush (@pdengatethrush) August 4, 2015

I would have chosen Stockbrokers.com over .Stockbrokers for 4  reasons:

Last month, a fake news report about Twitter appeared on a newly created website found on  Bloomberg.Market. The website, created on a new gTLD domain name, had a design that apparently looked like the genuine Bloomberg website. The resulting confusion briefly caused a jump in the price of Twitter stock.

Shortly after this made the  news, some people were quick to blame the new gTLD program. Yes, Bloomberg.Market was created using one of the new gTLD domain names, but no, I don’t think this is  endemic to new gTLD domain names. I think this  can be done on any domain name.

I just read  an article on Boston.com  about how

Over the weekend, I received an email from Monte Cahn announcing that his company, Right of the Dot, LLC, is teaming up with Heritage Auctions to sell the  .Versicherung new gTLD extension. The auction will be held on August 26th at 10am EST, and the auction format  will be an online ascending clock auction.

Versicherung is the German word for “insurance.” This domain name extension went into General Availability in September of 2014. There are approximately 3,000+/- .Versicherung domain names registered.

Monte shared more details about this new gTLD extension that I thought you might find interesting:

In one of the more amusing comments I have read in some time, someone apparently compared me to a “drug baron” with respect to the new gTLD domain names. In response to an article on Shane Cultra’s blog, Neil wrote the following in a more detailed comment (bolded emphasis added by me):

“You said you wanted to improve the quality of your portfolio like Elliot yet you insist on XYZ? Elliot may promote these crappy extensions heavily but he dosent use them, like a Drug Baron. He only invests in quality and improves his portfolio year on year.”

I appreciate the comment about my improving my portfolio because that is the aim of my business, but I take umbrage in the comparison that was made.  There are two things that I think are inaccurate in the comment that I would like to discuss.

The first issue  is with the comment that