Looks like the steam is rapidly running out of the new gtlds?
I think it's a conglomeration of several things. I hate to sound like a broken record but in the beginning pricing was more favorable for the domainer along with availability.
Over the past year pricing has hit the roof removing many from the playing field except for a few with the financial backing to endure such a change.
Sure many are still registering new gTLDs but not the best ones they're being held back, or the ones so over priced that no domain investor would or should take that gamble. One example in .tech is secure .tech, it's $15,000. to register and a $15,000. per year renewal.
Also some of the slowdown is the amount of time that it now takes to dig, dig to find a good single keyword they have overlooked and they do overlook a few. I was able to find call .tech but I can't tell you the time that was spent finding this one within the haystack. I do know I looked at .tech several times before finding one I liked and wouldn't get robbed registering it.
Some of the other issues is the frustration of names being taken back after they were registered by domainers and along with domains being denied by the registry and then find out a couple days later someone else registered the same name at another register.
Many also think new gTLD domains will sell overnight. I'm not saying that can't happen but I look at new gTLDs as a five to ten year investment.
I could go on but if the
steam is running out, what I've posted above is part of the problem
IMO.
Sorry for the thread derail//
