domains Verisign says it needs .web because .com is running out of names

Bob Hawkes said:

Be interesting to see how this resolves, ...

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ReallyBigIdea.com said:

if the dot web will be launched a Web.com (aka netsol) will be getting a lot of traffic.. tons of traffic.

go.web on the banner but people will go to go.web.com instead of go.web

dot.web - just another useless extension like as dotsite. dotwebsite dotonline dotonl etc..

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Amar D said:

I would never use a .web and similar domains for my own business.

.com + ccTLD = win situation!

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Alessandro Couteau said:

I don’t know what your business is, however owning the exact match keyword to your industry followed by the matching .extension is a valuable part in achieving total efficiency and the best results when ranking online

similar to my example(s) I co own,

easy.credit

&

e.credit

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Amar D said:

Firstly the education system should use gTLD in books for students.
Everyone is learned to use .com or .net + .eu .us from schooling times. We need books for new kids that they learn from start about dot-something domains.

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Bob Hawkes said:

Verisign seems to have changed their view on another topic.

Are we running out of good .com names? Clearly there are many more letter combinations possible, even in names less than 9 characters. However, at current registrations there are about 230 .com domain registrations per word in the Oxford English Dictionary, so pretty heavily registered.

What fraction of the good words are available in aftermarket? A lot, although at prices outside the range of many businesses, some would argue. Not saying outside the range they would think its worth, but literally outside the range of available resources to a small business. Some such businesses have adopted new extensions and repurposed country codes.

I see Verisign point (even though they do handle some other TLDs already) seeing slow growth potential in legacy extensions (that is not to say aftermarket will slow, just total number of registrations must not have a lot of growth room). So they have tried hard to get .web.

I see .web as a good extension, that will enter the top 10 of new gTLD registration wise, but personally do not see it as in a different class than .online, .site, .website, .link and some others in terms of quality of word (yes I agree .web bit better than .website).

Be interesting to see how this resolves, with two well-funded companies on opposite sides.

Bob

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Lox said:

In legal documents released by ICANN yesterday, Verisign’s lawyers say: “The undisputed evidence is that Verisign needs a TLD like .WEB for growth given the decreased name availability in .COM”.

The admission/claim/lie (delete according to preference) came in a joint post-hearing filing by Verisign and Nu Dot Co, the .web applicant to which Verisign loaned $135 million to bid for the gTLD on its behalf at a record-breaking ICANN auction in 2016.

Afilias, now owned by Donuts, was the second-highest bidder and since November 2018 has been trying to get the auction result cancelled via ICANN’s quasi-judicial Independent Review Process.

The IRP’s final hearing was held over seven days last June, and we’ve been waiting with baited breath for a ruling ever since.

At some point over the last 48 hours, ICANN published three sets of post-hearing arguments — one from itself, one from complainant Afilias and an amicus (non-party, friend of the court) filing from Verisign/NDC.

(domainincite)

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