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JudgeMind said:

Google could be setting up for a huge change in their algorithms that will show sites with GTLD and CCTLD first in search results?? If they did this the .com could definitely suffer.

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Why on earth would they do that??
It would kill them off as a search engine because the search results would suck.
If search lost market share, Advertisers would jump ship. Bye bye revenue stream.

Read some of the BS here and only thing I have to say is that I am out of popcorn for now.

This thread is unbelievable. Sometimes i wonder whether some domainers are really nothing more than hobos looking for a quick buck using free internet in a public library.

What the FK does .xyz mean anyway to even think it will rule this planet?

enlytend said:

Why on earth would they do that??
It would kill them off as a search engine because the search results would suck.
If search lost market share, Advertisers would jump ship. Bye bye revenue stream.

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i guess after reading my post again it was hard to see the sarcasm in my post. I will go back to monitoring from the sidelines again.

Joseph Green said:

Imagine how easy it would be for Google to kill .com if that was the goal. The easiest way would be for Google to penalize websites that use .com in their search results and rankings.

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then they would go out of business

JudgeMind said:

i guess after reading my post again it was hard to see the sarcasm in my post. I will go back to monitoring from the sidelines again.

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We need a sarcasm smiley .

alien51 said:

This thread is unbelievable. Sometimes i wonder whether some domainers are really nothing more than hobos looking for a quick buck using free internet in a public library.

What the FK does .xyz mean anyway to even think it will rule this planet?

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Some college kids get into this business that way from the libraries. I have to say being more into parking domains then needing sales library could work for me I only spend couple hours making my list. That's what there free service allows. lol

They can reg all the other extensions they want. They will still be meaningless and won't give them any value.

enlytend said:

We need a sarcasm smiley .

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Rodger that

dordomai said:

then they would go out of business

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No, they wouldn't. I didn't say remove .com websites from the search results; I said penalize, which would mean .com websites would show up a few positions lower.

It's already been proven multiple times (Mahalo.com, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Bing, etc.) that slightly better or worse search results would have zero impact on the search giant. It would have an impact on .com websites only.

Either way, I gave it as a theoretical example to illustrate an important point about the future.

Google will still remain as the search engine. I don't think it's fair to say that this will be the last day.

Its fair to say it was last day of Google because Google is now not a parent company and its been conglomerated under alphabet.

Yousaf Saeed said:

Its fair to say it was last day of Google because Google is now not a parent company and its been conglomerated under alphabet.

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Google just won't be trading publically as Google. Yet, the brand will remain popular and the same.

You've heard people "google it". Do you think you'll hear people say, "abc it" ? :P

any website that is unique and provides something that people want, then it won't matter the extension or even if it is mispelled domain...people are attracted to:

design
content
navigation
products/services
and what they get out of it for visiting, signing up, buying or clicking

Count the extensions on every sign/billboard/advertistment you come across for the next day or so and you will get your answer

.com seems to be the hallmark of this internet universe :D :D

With all due respect to fellow domainers here, I can't believe I am reading the hype that .com will be forgotten and .xyz will rule.

Come on fellas, it's not the end of .com and it's not the booming era for .xyz. As for the huge .xyz registrations going on right now, it's only an opportunity that us domainers are investing in (like we do with other domain extensions). So just because there are thousands of .xyz registrations out there doesn't mean that the value of .com is decreasing.

.com will still rock and isn't going anywhere. Just because Google has registered a name using an extension other than .com, doesn't mean that Google will "enforce" others to use the same extension for their website if they want to appear on google SERPs. And it also doesn't change the whole domaining world either.

Everything is the same. Just a little excitement going on, and by the end of this year, I am sure things will get back to .com again...lol.

Just my thoughts.

How about if Google planned to open 26 Child companies under .xyz?
26 Alphabets = 26 Companies
A = Alphabet
B = Bloggers
C = Chrome
D = Drive
E = Earth
F = Finance
G = Google
.
.
P = Play
.
.
Z = Zipper

And All these 26 child companies that are under "Google" right now will be considered under "Alphabet" company and you .xyz extenions in near future.

Yousaf Saeed said:

How about Google planned to open 26 Child companies under .xyz?
26 Alphabets = 26 Companies
A = Alphabet
B = Bloggers
C = Chrome
D = Drive
E = Earth
F = Finance
G = Google
.
.
P = Play
.
.
Z = Zipper

And All these 26 child companies that are under "Google" right now will be considered under "Alphabet" company and you .xyz extenions in near future.

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They will never open any other company in extension .xyz. They took abc.xyz because it describes "Alphabet" starting from abc and ending in xyz.

@Jitesh Prasad maybe it can be considered from this angle: Alphabet abc - xyz [containing everything - its child companies], i never said they might open 26 companies, i said they might just use this extension for all of their child companies containing 26 alphabets.

Yousaf Saeed said:

@Jitesh Prasad maybe it can be considered from this angle: Alphabet abc - xyz [containing everything - its child companies], i never said they might open 26 companies, i said they might just use this extension for all of their child companies containing 26 alphabets.

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They will never use .xyz for their any other existing companies, why would they? Is there any reason to change it? But yes, they may change abc.xyz to some domain.com

Whatever they are planning on .xyz - i think it will make huge impact in market sooner or later with .xyz extension... Let see...

Jitesh Prasad said:

They will never use .xyz for their any other existing companies, why would they? Is there any reason to change it? But yes, they may change abc.xyz to some domain.com

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A great point and I think this should clear any doubt fellow members might have here about .com going down.

Just take examples of new startups who launch their business using .io, .co and etc. because they can't afford the premium dot com OR the extension they opt to use (other than .com) is more brandable for them.

But even these startups companies do their best to acquire the dot com version of their domain once they start profiting from their business.

So why in the world would Google go the other way around? Doesn't make any sense for the big G to devalue the king of extensions. Abc.xyz makes a perfect sense for the new company (Alphabet), but that should not mean that .com world will be changed.

But then again, let's wait and watch.

Just wishful talks that can never happen to .com the king of all. Remember, that Big G is pride on .com.

The Big G is using .xyz - because it means- everything, and that is why they have launched their holding company on it; in order to have all their lesser companies under one umbrella.

That is not to say the big G wish to drop google.com. I don't think any business entity could do that and prefer to suffer a big blow of lossing such big effort it took them to developped the google.com and now to drop just because of a new extension, and I do not think they can take such a huge risk to change the search engine to .xyz as their main extension as google.xyz. If they do; they will lose huge sum of money and I don't think they will be ready to do that in the nearest future. IMO.

OK! remember when the google.com expired last week, and someone regged it for some minutes before they quickly picked it again!!! and the news is still going viral now. Do you know how much they have lost wihin that few minutes and not talk of changing to another lesser extension.

I believe they have tested it and saw the result. That senario was delebrate with my understanding, and in a normal senario, you know it takes numbers of days before any domain could expried and dropped before someone could re-register the domain; but in the Big G case it took only few minutes to expired and dropped for the man to registered the big search engine name. HUH! what a researched testing.

It is not possible, I repeat, not possible.
Cheers.

Yousaf Saeed said:

@jitesh Parsad Hey your secret info got leaked to me as well so anyone who is willing to throw his premium .coms then consider me as well i'll pay $5 extra per name :D :D lolz

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Just before dot com constitute any nuisance to me, I have transferred seven to you already. Just go to your CP and confirm.lol

I think the major competitors google will have to contend with are domainers who have invested so much in dot com