| 100buckdomains.com Name: John Location: North Carolina Join Date: Mar 2004
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| I think this is a silly debate. How many .tld's have really taken off? How many .cctld's have really taken off? By taken off, I mean they are the prefered extension. A handful. Really, just a handful. Maybe 5%.
Those on here who are voicing opinions that .com is going to end are failing to grasp the fact that YOU ARE A DOMAINER. You are intimately familiar with other extensions because you have to be - whether domaining is a job or a hobby.
Domainers are an INFINITESIMAL segment of the internet-using population. The internet-using population knows the .com extension. Most know .net. Very few know other ones. Next to no one knows .mobi. You tell a non-domainer internet user to visit a site and you say it's called smallsegmentofpopulation dot *blank* - 99 out of 100 will just follow the words you say and type in .com, regardless of what extension you may have said.
Is this likely to change? I seriously doubt it. The internet isn't exactly new anymore and .com is CEMENTED in the consciousness of internet users. Why would any company risk losing visitors or confusing internet users by using a proprietary extension? It doesn't make sense for there to be 8 billion extensions for people to have to remember - that's just bad business.
Just my two cents. However, I'm sure these two cents are right on the money. Pardon the pun.
-john
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