Agree that .net and .info are struggling in sales, especially .info I would say, but also agree with
@garptrader that they still have significantly more market share and significant sales than almost all of the ngTLDs at this time.
The .info extension actually peaked in web use in 2011 at about 2.0%. It is currently at 0.9% use. You can look at many TLDs back to 2010 at this link.
https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/top_level_domain/ms/y
For .net it was highest in the first year shown in the data table, 2010, when it had 6.8% use but now down to 3.9%. It is interesting that the decline of both .net and .info preceded the introduction of the ngTLDs. They may have worsened the situation, but did not start the decline in either extension.
The one major global extension that is doing well over the 8 year period is
.org, which went from 4.6% in 2010 to 5.1% currently. And it really is not just the last year or so of crypto, as .org has increased fairly consistently.
For reference, .
com is hugely dominant although it is losing share of use. In 2010 it accounted for 53.9% and now it is 46.5%.
The one extension that seemed directly impacted by the ngTLD was .biz, that started dropping the year of the first big ngTLD introductions and has continue to drop.
Even the highest of the ngTLDs are way down the list, with .xyz having about 0.2% of use (so a factor of 4 or 5 less than .info). The trend of .xyz is largely constant. Other extensions including .club, .top, .top, .win and .download make the list but are all near 0.1% use. Some are showing modest upward trend but to precision posted hard to decide if it is statistically significant.
At current trends, I project that
by the year 2270 .com and .xyz will have equal use . Us ngTLD investors better take a long term view or find a profitable niche!
Have a nice day, everyone!