Boston.com or .Boston ?

[cityforums.com]

Boston.com or .Boston ?

Which url has greater overall INTRINSIC value and why ?

Which url would allow a corporation to gross more money in the long run ?

 

[weblord]

the latter is high priced of course but gives lots of possibilities and branding and income as well. but still for domainers they'll go for .COM

 

[Alan Glennon]

I like Boston.com. Just looks more normal. I'll probably just use search and have it guide me to the best result.

 

[weblord]

i should have said that as well, it looks more practical money-wise but if you can offer exclusive use to boston people for a .boston why not, as long as there's money alloted to it.

I like Boston.com. Just looks more normal. I'll probably just use search and have it guide me to the best result.

 

[bmugford]

Boston.com in a landslide. There will be a ton of traffic bleedover from .Boston.

People will type in something like RedSox.Boston.COM because it is a habit. It anything the traffic to the domain Boston.com would increase because of it.

 

[nrmillions]

Right now in 2008 of course .com is the obvious choice but things could change quickly. .com could become a thing of the past as technology changes and ICANN adds more things. Allowing people to create their own TLDs is not the same as ICANN releasing more random extensions, this can have a major impact. If the public no longer thinks in terms of ".com" then that will destroy the value of .com and maybe even domains all together and then it will be all about development and branding. 10 years from now .com, .net, & .org could all seem like ancient history.

 

[Idees]

You could turn .Boston in to http://www.Boston

 

[scoops22]

Right now in 2008 of course .com is the obvious choice but things could change quickly. .com could become a thing of the past as technology changes and ICANN adds more things. Allowing people to create their own TLDs is not the same as ICANN releasing more random extensions, this can have a major impact. If the public no longer thinks in terms of ".com" then that will destroy the value of .com and maybe even domains all together and then it will be all about development and branding. 10 years from now .com, .net, & .org could all seem like ancient history.

Agreed.

We may be nearing the end of an Era.

 

[GeoOwners]

do you in your wildest dreams think any "good" names in any of those type of extensions will ever be available to the general public to own?

.mobi is an example.

if there were a .Boston, the owners of the extension will keep names like Hotels.Boston all to themselves.


.

 

[Alan Glennon]

I think www.boston looks lame (boston.com looks better).
http://boston <--- that's pretty nice. However, I don't think that domain will be possible. Just like http://com doesn't substitute for .com.

You could turn .Boston in to http://www.Boston

 

[cityforums.com]

do you in your wildest dreams think any "good" names in any of those type of extensions will ever be available to the general public to own?

.mobi is an example.

if there were a .Boston, the owners of the extension will keep names like Hotels.Boston all to themselves.


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True, but will the owners of .Boston be able to give value to their visitors

if they kept all the permutations to themselves ?

 

[Idees]

Yea, I agree.

I think www.boston looks lame (boston.com looks better).

 

[bmugford]

There is a lot of speculation here.

First of all ICANN is not going to allow extensions under 3 letters, or extensions similar to others. So you are not going to see .COM typos, or .USA when there is a .US

Second, there is no way this happens anytime soon other than possibly TM names because.

1.) This will be a nightmare for Google, and without Google this is a non starter.
2.) If you think people who own domains like Sex.com, XXX.com, Poker.com, etc. won't lock this up in court for years you are dreaming.

There are just as many big time rich owners of those premium domains now that will fight to protect their brand.

 

[cancerian]

www.com.boston
www.com.ebay
www.com.paypal
www.com.google


:lol:

 

[cityforums.com]

There is a lot of speculation here.

First of all ICANN is not going to allow extensions under 3 letters, or extensions similar to others. So you are not going to see .COM typos, or .USA when there is a .US

Second, there is no way this happens anytime soon other than possibly TM names because.

1.) This will be a nightmare for Google, and without Google this is a non starter.
2.) If you think people who own domains like Sex.com, XXX.com, Poker.com, etc. won't lock this up in court for years you are dreaming.

There are just as many big time rich owners of those premium domains now that will fight to protect their brand.

Do you think the King will fight against .Property or should he himself apply

for .Property ?

www.com.boston
www.com.ebay
www.com.paypal
www.com.google


:lol:

:lol:

looks like the horse is behind the carriage.

 

[OnlineBizGuru]

Boston.com rules!

 

[Steven]

Here's the thing about .com.
Some of us (or most of us) have seen .com growth over the years since 90s.
Remember that most of us who grew up with the internet are flexible to its changes.
The new users (kids) will adopt to whatever changes being made.
There are already new extensions giving great exposure to general net users.
Some examples include BofA.mobi, Blip.TV, del.icio.us.

Maybe the big time investors will fight to protect their .com investment as someone has mentioned above.
Maybe, this whole new set of extensions will not take off as hoped.
Who knows?

I don't think .com will meet its demise because of it, but I don't think it's invincible. .Com is already engraved into millions of users' mind, and many companies have spent millions to advertise their brand (site using .com).

For now, I still prefer Boston.com over .Boston.

 

[svzi]

Boston.com

That's more familiar!
I love

 

[htmlindex]

Boston.com is definately the best even if they eventually did rollout a .Boston

 

[owntype]

Boston.Boston