people will just continue being irrational? this happens sometimes but most things evolve.
and to answer the tag in the thread: im very lonely - come have a conversation with me.
Has nothing to do with being irrational, you're focusing just on one point. Checked out Alexa top 500 sites in U.S.
.com/org - over 92%
.net - 16 = 3%
.gov - 6
.co.uk - 4
.eu - 2
.se 1
.co - 1 no_url_shorteners - url shortener
.ph - 1
.ch - 1
.do - 1
.ly - 1
.to - 1
.me - 1
.tv - 1
.cn - 1
.us - 1
In the U.S., .net is the closest, been around for awhile now, 3%. New extensions, bunch of under 1 percenters is what they'll be.
edited to add, what I find interesting about the .net numbers is, that was the #2 option, right after .com. Can't get .com, get .net. And after all these years, just 3%. If you look at top 500 internet merchants, I don't remember seeing even 1 .net, all .com. Every year, you have a certain amount of new merchants coming online, why isn't .net higher? Where is .biz? Why only 1 .us? Where is the market? If a true market existed, those numbers would be higher. After all those years of .net being available, you figure some of those .net merchants would have grown up and been on some of those lists, they're not. Those 16 .net above, most of those companies also have the .com, at&t, comcast, verizon, earthlink, etc.
Ah well, it'll be fun to watch it all play out.