[norbu09]

I absolutely agree with your second point but your first point is pretty centred around your personal point of view. I, for one, don't see defensive registrations as a smart way of spending money. your costumers know that if you are a mail hosting provider you are most probably not trading under a .bike domain, so why bother blocking that name on every TLD no matter if it is relevant to your business or not.

We see new regs coming in that go nTLD only. new customer, finds an awesome .guru domain and wants to use it, instead, and that is important, a .com or a regional alternative. We would really like to make it easy for that customer to use that domain but seems like many just missed the whole topic.