dave321
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Just interested in people's perspective on this. I realize it's a broad question.
More TLDs means more supply. More supply result in value dilution resulting in market collapse.
- The value of domains will continue to rise, .coms, .cos etc, as more and more individuals will come online to make money online.
- More businesses will see the value of domains, so this will also push the demand of domains higher
- There will be more domainers in the industry, as that is increasing every year.
- Possibly more TLDs will emerge.
- .Namepros might be one such new TLD in 5 years
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They are on top of it already, called "branded" extensions. Though, the professional sports area hasn't been tapped into yet, and I think you might be on to something. Especially we're looking at 3 character extensions there, which always seem favorable.What I am waiting for is the corporate adoption of extensions. That might be a way to move away from .com to a degree. For example, a ".NFL" extension owned by the nfl would create a standardized structure for each team, where they could build their brand in a thousand different ways, so players could have their own page manning.colts.nfl or whatever. They would not have to worry about someone beating them to the dot com for a new player, etc. It would be a private extension, open only to teams, players, maybe some media, etc. .NFL, .NBA, .MLB, etc., could change perception a lot.
Something to watch out for. Only the strong names will survive, in terms of investing. And if registry's keep trying to be domainers, they will end up shutting out a large part of their business base.More TLDs means more supply. More supply result in value dilution resulting in market collapse.
- However, the Internet could not live without domain names,so ...
I don't think so. Internet without domain names has been always possible. Even most internet connections work without domain names such as ftp, ssh, emails, torrents and more. Domain names are not a must and never have been.
Without domain names the Internet would be the realm only for techies. Personally I find it a lot easier to ftp.domain.com or ssh [email protected] or email [email protected]
non-techies don't really use domain names to browse websites, except the domain names of top 500-1,000 most traffic websites. People use search engines for a long time and in the past there were also directories like dmoz.
Websites without domain names can be built in a way that they can be found on search engines. DNS could be unnecessary.
Then who really need domains? Anyone who wants to build and protect brand. But usually people are brand-indifferent in their online and offline lives. For instance how many restaurant brand can you memorize out of the total number of restaurant brands? I bet less than 0.000001% Because there are hundreds of thousands restaurants. Branding + Exact Match Domains were two top reasons. EMD's are dead. Only one meaningful reason left: branding and it's almost dead.
This is an argument you should have with a branding expert. All I can say is when I want to go Amazon to order something or to eBay, Uber, Walmart, etc., I don't use Google. But that is just me.
People sort products based on price, specs and #of comments on online shopping websites. Only brand-loyal buyers search based on a particular brand. But most of those people don't make a decision on merely brand.
Amazon, uber, ebay, walmart, etc are functioning like search engines. When you don't use google, you use just another search engine in a way without domain names and websites of the sellers. In fact each product page on those online shopping websites as well as personal pages on social media websites, even our profile pages and posts on forum websites like here at NP forums are functioning like individual websites without domain names of the owner.
I see where you are going with this. What you are describing are ecosystems. But they still are based on a domain name. If I have a business card to share with you I would rather have mybrandeddomain.com rather than somesocialsite/mybrand on it. Even if the domain is not immediately recognized, if it is an exact match of my brand then it promotes that brand. Not all businesses are good at promoting their brands or even coming up with a good brand.