If you compare the reality of every new TLD added since 2000 to the promises made, they are without exception total failures.

Without the North American Numbering Plan Administrator revenues, the business entity "NeuStar/NeuLevel" would have done more then shed staff in 2002. It would have been re-organized out of recognition, or gone. After a decade it has a 2% market share in policy-free registry products. Without the .org revenues, the gradually collapsing in member investor equity holding entity "Afilias" is also unlikely to have survived, even in the degenerate two-shareholders form. After a decade it has a 8% market share in policy-free registry products. GNR failed and was acquired by its service provider. The "Professional" model never even started. The 2004 pseudo-sponsored registries, .cat excepted, are market failures.

... If you dial back the expectations by about 98%, you could argue that .CAT and .COOP are somewhat successful, since they each serve s modest fraction of their quirky little communities ...

Agree. Eric