Rick Schwartz currently has a poll running on Twitter asking the question, “If you are into buying gTLD’s which best reflects your current outlook?” I think it’s very safe to say that this question is geared towards Domainers and that’s likely the bulk of the folks who are following Rick on Twitter.
I had a bit of a tough time answering this as I didn’t find an answer that really covered my position. I have never been all in on the new gTLDs, for me I’ve always told myself I’m okay experimenting but the only TLD I’m all in on is .COM. So the first two answers wouldn’t really apply to me.
At the same time, I wouldn’t want to return the new gTLDs I registered so the only answer that would most closely describe me is that I have stopped buying. That being said, I haven’t stopped buying but it’s pretty close to accurate since I never really bought big on new gTLDs and I do buy new gTLDs pretty darn rarely.
What the numbers do show though is that 71% of folks don’t seem to be incredibly bullish on the investor side and I think that’s probably pretty fair. I personally have seen end users doing some great things with new gTLDs but I haven’t heard of many investors that have made a killing yet.
If you haven’t voted yet I’d pop on over to https://twitter.com/DomainKing and cast your vote. Of course I’d also love to hear your thoughts below. Are new gTLDs going to be a good investment for Domainers long-term or will those who have spent big be out big bucks?

Not sure what to make of it. The poll isn’t very scientific because it will not cover the bulk of people, should be an option “I do not invest in new tlds”. I suspect the people in that category may just choose one of the other options rather than saying “this poll isn’t aim at me” (those people hate new tlds and will want to choose option 3 or 4).
When new tlds came out I saw lots of different polls by different bloggers and it suggested about 1/3 of domainers were investing in new tlds.
If these new results are taken at face value this would be a huge (downward) shift for ntld’s but I think the poll need to be constructed better to know if there has been a big shift or not. Personally I think there has been a shift but I don’t know to what extent. I believe some people are giving up on these names and I think they outweigh the number of new people coming in.