What do you think?
Guillon will know much better than me, but as far as I know, the .cam project aims at becoming a reference in the video/livecam sector.Probably.
I think meaningful websites with .cam is really limited. We can't even count 100 exact match or meaningful domains with this extension.
Great extension for hackers in my opinion.
Guillon will know much better than me, but as far as I know, the .cam project aims at becoming a reference in the video/livecam sector.
I've always been very dubious about the probabilty of success of such extensions, but I believe they don't count on scammers to build their success. And I guess they would even block them, in order to preserve their goal of being a quality extension.
I totally agree with you. For me this new tld has a very limited utility, if any.The problem I am trying to emphasize is the number of quality names are limited. And that is just my opinion.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a domain like sex.cam selling for 5 or even 6 figures.
But how many quality combinations can you have with this extension?
If that`s the question, I totally agree with youif I understood well, was if this extension had been created to attract scammers. To this, I don't think so.
According to Namestat there are 5253 .cam registrations, of which 22 are in Alexa top 1M, which is not bad proportionally for real use (1 per 238 registered domains).
There have been two significant sales, both for $10,000, one for construction(.)cam and one for TimeLapse(.)cam.
In terms of abuse, so far the TLD has an excellent reputation so I don't think the speculation on this thread is supported by information. According to Spamhaus data as of right now 2.6% of active .cam websites are bad (spam, etc.) which is a very low ratio. This produces a badness index of 0.07. For comparison, .com has 7.4% and a score of 0.98 (lower is better).
While some purchasers might purchase hoping confusion with com, it does not seem that has happened significantly so far.
Disclosure: I do not own any .cam domains, nor involved in any official way with the extension, so no conflict of interest.