poll A new .com - Could it be this easy?

[MapleDots]

So you know how everyone is trying to predict the new .com and a lot of people thought that .co could possibly be the new .com. Well I guess that did not quite pan out because technically .co is still a ccTLD.

So that got me to thinking if maybe there was one that people had not thought of yet. Some of the top domainers in the world seem to think that .web might be the next one in line but personally I never cared for that because www already stands for world wide web so basically you would have world wide web businessname.web. Just kind of sounds wrong to me and I'm not sure if it is really the new .com.

So with the .com availability becoming more and more scarce what do you think will be the next big boom?

Now we are not looking for a replacement for .com but a prediction or suggestion for a new complimentary extension.

So upon some Looooooooooooooooooooong reflection I think I might have stumbled across a couple of great ones. I think it's only because I am a domainer that these came to mind and most ordinary folks would not think of it.

Here we go....

.com and the new complementary extension .dom (as in domain)

That would be my first choice, my second choice would be...

.com and the new complementary extension .dn (as in domain name)

In all the time I have looked at similar topics I have not seen anyone mention .dom but it almost makes sense that this could be a viable extension that both domainers and the general public could be happy with.


So what do you think? Could .dom or .dn be a possibility?

If not please list you favorite choice for a new world wide extension that would be your choice.


PS. To everyone thinking of flaming this topic with .com is king and similar content please refrain from that because I will ask a mod to delete it and keep everyone on topic. This topic is to discuss a viable extension that could handle the overflow from .com and the possibility of another REAL domain gold rush with another extension.

 

[urlurl]

lets confuse the world even more, lets make .comm (since .com stands for communication anyways) reality.

 

[DomainRecap]

lets confuse the world even more, lets make .comm (since .com stands for communication anyways) reality.

Actually, isn't it for Commercial?

 

[urlurl]

probably, a lot of people also think it represents company

 

[DomainRecap]

Yep, just checked:

The domain name com is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from the word commercial,[2] indicating its original intended purpose for domains registered by commercial organizations. Later, the domain opened for general purposes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com

 

[urlurl]

yup, right

 

[Zilla]

I have to say, there is no real alternative for .com, as it is cheap renewal and popular for many years....no one can beat it...and simplly answer ur question, .dom .dn .all not really good choice, if I have to choose one, I like .dn better, I think if u want establish a new extention with huge budgeting, I will suggest .lab or .labs if this is not yet avai.

btw, if I use another word to decribe the topic, if u want open a new company, u find there is so many extention to choose but the .com plus ur own cctld already gone,, then, what is extention u may really want to check, and feel ok, even it is not a .com, but still fine to use...

I list the "better extention" in my mind which may have broad usage possibility..

.co--------------------for any startup cannot find good .com
.io----------------------for tech related new company is good, more broad usage then .ai
.ai----------------------for AI related
.cloud----------------for Cloud computing, or for a software-as-a-service product(but I hate it is not run by AWS or Google)
.cat-------------------for presonal, local, qute, small business, child education, cat, ...anything small and sweat sense...I feel is quite useful for personal or small business..for example, if u want brand a new cloth store or design studio with 1 or 10 employee, why not call it awesome.cat...easy to logo it as well...(ok...i know it is for Catalunya..)
.group---------------for new company but want feel big and strong and quite formal
.solutions-----------for any type of solutions if the ***solutions.com already gone.
.studio---------------for any type of studio
.site------------------for any type of sites...

 

[lock]

It has been done at 99c or very cheap look at xyz. The next 99c or very cheap extension will do the same. Getting the owners to renew them well that is the tricky part.

The poll doesn't cater for relevant extensions to keyword or industry so dot net is the answer.

 

[cipcip]

Well, from my point of view .com is still not widely used in the world. In certain countries, their respective ccTLD still is in power, especially in Europe. (.de, .es, and so on).

I do not think that .dom would be a possible switch, because .com stands for commercial, so .dom = Domain would not be relevant. To be honest, I would think of .co as well, but that will be .co = Company and not commercial. Another way to go, would be .cm = Cameroon, but is still closer to Commercial as in wording.

I would personally choose .xyz to be the next .com. We all know that major companies already have websites on this tld, see Google, and the more the giants will invest in it, the more it will become famous.

 

[dirk]

I don't think there is a better option than what we already have. They thought it through in the early days of the internet.

.web may work but it's just like any other ngtld. Hard to get a proper market share. Plus, .web kinda implies it's a website. Let's not forget a very big chunk of domains aren't even used to serve a website.

I get why .com rules the world but imo it should have been .net. it's the most versatile global extension.

.dn would be great as its unpretentious and just represents what it is. Just like .net it could be used for anything without the implication of what it is actually used for(commercial, organization, mail, website, personal use,etc). It won't happen as 2 chars are reserved for cctlds but who knows.

Anyway, my vote goes to .net. Thinking of this brings back memories of the old days when you would specifically get a .net or .org simply because you didn't want to get associated with the corporate world. I now regret getting the .net or .org instead of the .com as it was the 'cool thing' to do and .com was there for the grabs. Still, in means of versatility it's the weakest gtld, money wise, as a businessman, it's still the holy grail.

Great thread I'd like to add. Just like the ccTLD discussion it's good to see some thoughts about the future of domains/domaining in general that go beyond just the value of a domain as an asset.

 

[Asset Profit]

No doubt non .Coms are being sold for some serious Bank. But it only makes me stick with .Coms more if there is scarcity especially in competitive niches that means Value Increases.

 

[otismo]

.gdn already available means "generic domain name" alpnames.com now has 69 cent promo

I use it as a hack for "garden" as in csszen.gdn

shudi buy vegans.gdn 69 cents

paranoid about being buried by reg fees as do not have unlimited capital

my net worth wud have to be over one billion before I would even ENTERTAIN the IDEA

of offering $1mil for anything that is basically notLiquid/notFungible

any millions coming my way wud go into dividend paying stx and there ain't many good ones to choose from

but I digress.....

.exe gets my vote

esp if it had a 25 cent

FOREVER reg fee promo

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Look at your own internet behavior... ever just go into the search browser and just type in "namepros" followed by hitting control + enter? It will automatically add www before and .com after.

No I never do that. What I do is enter Namepros or Wikipedia etc in url and it automatically directs to the most relevant result for that word, e.g. wikipedia.org. For some words that is your localized country. For Namepros it is this site because it has great use and content, and it just happens to be a .com

 

[Ategy]

First and foremost .. .com is #1 by far and I really don't see anything ever replacing it. I think it more likely something replaces the Internet before .com gets replaced .. most people don't even have a clue what .com even stands for ... Plus .. truth be told .. it doesn't even matter .. that's how strong .com is .. is that in fact it has become it's own definition. At this point .com stands for ".com" .. which stands for trust when compared to most other altTLDs.


That being said .. if you're looking for an alternative ...


I hate to say I really really don't like .dom .. too confusable with .com. Also has adult tones. Plus most common non-domainers don't even care what a "domain" is .. for general usage .add for address would actually be more relevant.

Then technically speaking .url would be better than .dom.


As for alternative TLDs .. ".co" most certainly effectively is NOT a ccTLD. Google treats it as a non local TLD, and much much more importantly, the average non-domainer has no clue that 2 letter TLD's are generally technically reserved for country usage.

In fact .. I'm willing to bet that if you polled 1000 non-domainers, vastly over 95% of them would say that .TV stands for television as opposed to Tovulu (the fact as a domainer I'm not even sure how to say or spell the actually country further proves my point .. lol).

While .co most certainly isn't as obvious, I'm willing to bet the vast majority of people would answer that they have no clue what ".co" stands for as opposed to saying it stands for Columbia. In fact .. I'm almost thinking more non-domainers could indeed actually say "company" over "Columbia"/

I sold my 4th 4-figure .co last week ... proportionately speaking in terms of number of domains in my portfolio compared to my domain sales, I actually sell more .co than .com! None of my .co sales were to Columbia .. lol.


.xyz is just too childish to ever be taken seriously. Granted there are a handful of companies using it .. but I'm willing to bet there are more companies that stick with their .co than companies that stick with their .xyz (obviously both would want the .com)


Much of what will happen with .web will depend on who ends up getting it (still doesn't seem to be 100% Verisign) and more importantly what it will be priced at. If Verisign ends up with it (likely), then do not expect it to be priced well. I'm guessing about $20 .. the perfect price point to cash in on domainers, but not enough to compete with their own .com. Remember that it is in their best interest for .web to NOT be a success as they don't want to dilute the authority of .com.

But I do like .web as a generic alternative to .com ... although I don't think it will do as well as people think. It most certainly could easily do well enough to pass .xyz, .co and all other potential purely generic extentions ... probably by a wide margin.

 

[Michael Ehrhardt]

.yet

 

[domainer111]

No alt is needed. Any alt extension just makes dot-com stronger. We've been over this just a few times, with a multi-million dollar experiment from Donuts, ICANN et al :D

Try dot alt :D

 

[Zilla]

.gdn already available means "generic domain name"
I use it as a hack for "garden" as in csszen.gdn

Use gdn as garden is an innovative hack...thanks for this idea...even I am not sure how many others agree it...at least feel it is make kind of sense imo....

then, I checked (via dynadot) somthing may related with garden , like fish, birds, cat, dog, flower, butterfly, those all been marked as reserved names,....while I search more, I found lots of words been reserved or sell at higher reg/renew price(I didnot do any dictionary check, just check some easy simple word jump into my mind, like tiger.gdn, kush.gdn, ebook.gdn, bigdata.gdn, cloud.gdn...etc....may be u want check btc.gdn or coin.gdn I am not sure if those still there)

Finally, I reged this one....sorry for out of topic...may be it should move to "reg of today" thread but I just want echo to otismo's idea..and I also like the csszengarden book very much,

 

[ncinsure90]

This discussion is very helpful.

 

[Recons.Com]

.com has become default extension globally or even on nation level in many countries or at least is accepted as a good alternative to strong cctlds. Meaning, you'd be ok to start a travel business at reise.com in Germany if you'd own it.

But, this extension is objectively a beauty that is hard to beat.

1. It sounds great. Just say a word and add "dot com". Now compare to "xyz" or "gdn" or even "org" which very often in ads is actually spelled out "visit us at our nonprofit dot Ou-aR-Gee".

2. It has very robust meaning from commercial (the original meaning) to company (co) to communications. And those words sound the same in most languages. Now, web has fine meaning, but quite a few languages don't even use "w" and also .web will compete with .net, not .com

3. It is really visually pleasing. c+o+m just flow very nicely. Again compare to "thorny" xyz, for example.

And, back to being default:

If I introduce my company by "Company Name" and I own "Company Name dot com", then I don't even have to tell people what my website is. It is assumed by clients, me, partners etc. Now, even if I don't own it, I go for "Company Name USA dot com", I tell it to my clients and they just remember "oh, ok, I'll just add USA in the end" and in few days they still can recall the URL. But if I went for "Company Name dot gdn/xyz/global/photos/club etc", a client will have hard time recalling which of those obscure extensions my site is at.