The Domain Industry Is About To Change BIGTIME!!! - Page 12

cityforums.com · 06-29-2008, 03:03 AM

Originally Posted by PROXUS

IMHO this new extensions idea make some sense ....but only in case, where registration price is high enough, to limit interest to serious companies and application process is screened. It could help big corporations, if they really, really want their separate domain and/or run multilevel sites (.ebay, .apple, .microsoft, .bmw, .audi)
It will be more like .travel / .pro / ,museum (by the way... personally I never use those extensions)

For the regular players, it will mean nothing. People will always type .com up to the point where actual PR and quality of SEO will be more important than domain itself.

I don't see situation where chicago.com will be replaced with for example: start.chicago or home.chicago

????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/485000-the-domain-industry-about-change-bigtime.html

How about longer words like classifieds or realestate ? add prefix to that and you have a lot of typing

Personally I would be scared more about growing role of search engines than those exotic ideas made by ICANN. You could have PIZZA.com with PR1 and still loose in search engine with better developed NyPIZZA.net with PR7.
The time is coming where actual content will determine the value of the domain, not a name or extension.

New browsers like FF3 will help .anything

johntv · 06-29-2008, 05:46 AM

These are the stock prices of Marchex, who owns over 200,000 domain names, mainly all .com, for the last 10 days:

06-16-08: 12.61
06-17-08: 12.53
06-18-08: 12.42
06-19-08: 12.86
06-20-08: 12.81
06-23-08: 12.85 - day of announcement
06-24-08: 12.85
06-25-08: 13.39
06-26-08: 13.20
06-27-08: 13.64

The day before till the day after the announcement there is not much change, after that the stock is even rising.

It's probably still too early to call, although investors seem to be at the very least 'neutral' about it so far and not negative at all.

raredn.com · 06-29-2008, 05:59 AM

Originally Posted by johntv

These are the stock prices of Marchex, who owns over 200,000 domain names, mainly all .com, for the last 10 days:

06-16-08: 12.61
06-17-08: 12.53
06-18-08: 12.42
06-19-08: 12.86
06-20-08: 12.81
06-23-08: 12.85 - day of announcement
06-24-08: 12.85
06-25-08: 13.39
06-26-08: 13.20
06-27-08: 13.64

The day before till the day after the announcement there is not much change, after that the stock is even rising.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=485000

It's probably still too early to call, although investors seem to be at the very least 'neutral' about it so far and not negative at all.

Very interesting post!

Thanks for sharing, rep added

Pred · 06-29-2008, 06:30 AM

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briman1970 · 06-30-2008, 07:58 PM

I'm kind of neutral about this whole thing, but I'd love to see .sucks and .nsfw implemented sometime in the future. If .sucks ever comes out, I hope the owner of the TLD bans all corporations from registering.

If this scheme becomes a success in a few years, I actually think it could help exts such as .name finally become viable! Wouldn't that be a hoot.

netfleet · 06-30-2008, 08:14 PM

One thing I am certain of - this is not good news for anyone with existing domain name portfolios. Echoing someone else's post in this thread, any registration or purchasing dollars flowing into these new extensions instead of the current options is money lost to the existing registries and domain holders.

Don't kid yourself to thing that .com is immune or will somehow benefit.

I don't understand why they are doing this though. Surely some 'powerhouse' extensions along these lines already exists like .travel, .pro and .name and these have clearly failed. Confusion will be absolutely rife. It's crazy policy IMHO

NameCharger · 06-30-2008, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by netfleet

I don't understand why they are doing this though.

It's plain and simple:

Money, money, money.

The new tld concept targets corporations who will spend hundreds of millions (if not billions) to get their marks.

raredn.com · 06-30-2008, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by netfleet

'powerhouse' extensions along these lines already exist like .travel, .pro and .name and these have clearly failed.

Exactly, clearly failed!
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=485000

Totally and utterly went down the gurgler, so what does icann, want to do? It wants to try to revive a dead and 'decaying' horse

onewordonly · 07-01-2008, 04:55 AM

Originally Posted by netfleet

Surely some 'powerhouse' extensions along these lines already exists like .travel, .pro and .name and these have clearly failed.

.name was always going to fail but the only reason .travel & .pro have not done that well is because of the $100 registration and other requirements that the average person will not bother with. If they had been available for under $10 like most domains then it could have been totally different, especially .travel.

dgridley · 07-01-2008, 08:40 AM

Exactly! Hopefully, the dust will settle quickly and the shakeout will be minimal.

Originally Posted by NameCharger

It's plain and simple:

Money, money, money.

CHILLY · 07-03-2008, 08:10 PM

check this out........

http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-...t=selling+.gov

Beachie · 07-03-2008, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by CHILLY

check this out........
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=485000

http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-...t=selling+.gov

That's hilarious

We've seen these threads 1000 times over the last ten years though.

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netfleet NamePros Regular Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 714	One thing I am certain of - this is not good news for anyone with existing domain name portfolios. Echoing someone else's post in this thread, any registration or purchasing dollars flowing into these new extensions instead of the current options is money lost to the existing registries and domain holders. Don't kid yourself to thing that .com is immune or will somehow benefit. I don't understand why they are doing this though. Surely some 'powerhouse' extensions along these lines already exists like .travel, .pro and .name and these have clearly failed. Confusion will be absolutely rife. It's crazy policy IMHO __________________ Netfleet.com.au ★ Photographers.com.au ★ DebitCard.com.au ★ Hockey.com.au ★ Boxing.com.au ★ DomainName.com.au

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06-29-2008, 05:46 AM	#277 (permalink)
johntv Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Kenya Posts: 1,714	These are the stock prices of Marchex, who owns over 200,000 domain names, mainly all .com, for the last 10 days: 06-16-08: 12.61 06-17-08: 12.53 06-18-08: 12.42 06-19-08: 12.86 06-20-08: 12.81 06-23-08: 12.85 - day of announcement 06-24-08: 12.85 06-25-08: 13.39 06-26-08: 13.20 06-27-08: 13.64 The day before till the day after the announcement there is not much change, after that the stock is even rising. It's probably still too early to call, although investors seem to be at the very least 'neutral' about it so far and not negative at all.

06-29-2008, 06:30 AM	#279 (permalink)
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