That's what i tell when they ask me about domain trends and TLD
These are the highlights to this article for me
1. "...And as long as all the big ones are using and promoting the .com address, all the small outfits will do the same"
2. "More important, they've educated consumers to remember those .com web addresses"
'parochial nonsense' seems an accurate statement!? Given £10,000 in .co.uk or .com it would be a hell of alot easier to grow it in .UK than .com.
as for the waste-of-bandwidth article:
And then there's the rest of the world, the world outside the United States. Even though local domain addresses are well used and well respected, like the Danish .dk, the English co.uk, the German .de, and Norway's .no
Er, .UK is for the United Kingdom not England. Plus points for someone in the USA *knowing* there is a country outside their own though
Perhaps webhostdir ought to invest in webhostdirectory.com , WHD.com and the like ?!
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.Com was and still is to this day the most popular extension since most bigname companies use it as their address and its also very easy to remember, just as the article stated.
I had a little difficulty with your referenced link above, but I believe I get the gist ... now with the very real possibility that over a dozen new potential extensions relating to "mobile" alone (ie. .MO, .MOBILE, .MOB, .CELL, .IPHONE, etc.) could exist, it further DILUTES and erodes any viability of the already clumsy and awkward "dot Mobey" (.MOBI), IMHO.
It's demise was already predicted, accepted and understood by most who've been around, of course ... but ICANN now potentially openning up TLD's to, literally, endless like-minded variations will speed up its collapse very VERY RAPIDLY! Tick. Tock.
Says the biggest .mobi hater here at namepros, no surprise
However, it is sad that you totally miss the point. That the .mobi concept is so much more than just the letters of the extension.
"There is only one standard that guarantees you a site specifically designed for your mobile phone and that's .mobi. Just like how sites ending in .gov (such as IRS.gov) guarantee you a legitimate government site, sites ending with the .mobi "trustmark" guarantee you a legitimate mobile site."
I think we all agree that .com is not doomed even if extensions such as .company, .co and .inc are introduced. It had an early start advantage. And it's the same thing with .mobi in the mobile space.
The granting of each of these new extensions will take time, maybe some of them will appear in 2010, maybe not. Just look at what .mobi has already achieved. Every day more and more .mobi sites are being built and promoted.
Lol. Like this article told us something we didn't already know 5, 7, or even 10 years ago?
I still love all my other extensions though. Since it's not as if .com helps you with search engine rankings, and seeing as how most of my sites I monetize garner their viewers this way, I'll keep on using my .net, .org, .info, and even my .biz names too. Heck, some of my .biz sites are my biggest earners. So whether or not an extension is successful is all in the eye of the domainer.
