.com is going to die! Just thought

[Zilla]

18 year passed, at Year 2024...assume you have 7 years old son ...as a birthday gift, you decide give him a domain named ******.com, help him build his firt website....this name u keep for 20 years as it is some call premium name u never want sell it...

BUT...while your son annouce this to his friends "Hi, my father give me a .com name for my website"...what will happen?

"oh, guys, what is .com? what a antique, u are out of date, now, there is no one use .com, we use .anything now!" --another boy said...

why? because domainer keep the best .com name in the world, the young generation can not get the .com, so, they have to choose others..then the others dominate the web, instead of .com, .com is Old and die!!

 

[DN Tycoon]

I'm sorry man I really have no clue what it is you are trying to say or explain with this thread. Can you please re-write this so I can better understand what you are trying to explain.

 

[accent]

The OP, I believe, is trying to make the point that if domainers tie up the best .coms then the world will move to other alternatives.

I believe that is happening in two ways, although more from the expanding internet than from domainers. One is the increased use of other TLD's - a trickle that is becoming a stream, but more commonly there is the increased popularity of longer and longer .com names. I see big corporations going for reg fee names with three or four words rather than pay $$$$ for shorter names. To some extent this seems to be wrong-headed to me, but listen and look at the names you hear advertised and you will see it.

 

[Traveler]

I see your point and agree, in the next years we will see many of the "other" extension become much more popular due to the simple fact you just can't get many really good names in the .com at this point.

 

[Marcvs]

i do see your point though with the new ICANN ruling it will probaby change!

 

[DN Tycoon]

I think myself the .com will become a very valuable commodity as the level of obtaining any decent name decreases. I think people will obviously use other extensions but I do not think .com will die but prosper in as it become more scarce. It's like when Christmas comes around and every parent is trying to get the new Playstation3 that their kids want so bad only to find they have all been bought and now that parent will pay crazy amounts of money to get a system now because it has become scarce.

 

[Silhouette]

...with the new ICANN ruling it will probaby change!

which new rule(s) are you refering to??

 

[RJ]

Don't forget, .COM has already been around for 20 years and I don't see any indication that it's going anywhere. In fact it seems to be quite the opposite.

Each new extension that comes out only solidifies the position of .COM as the market leader as the "Global Contender" TLDs are left to fight amongst themselves for the rest of the market and public mindshare.

IMHO, it would be very smart to secure a premium .COM at this time in history with the intent to keep it for 20 years.

 

[cityforums.com]

Don't forget, .COM has already been around for 20 years and I don't see any indication that it's going anywhere. In fact it seems to be quite the opposite.

Each new extension that comes out only solidifies the position of .COM as the market leader as the "Global Contender" TLDs are left to fight amongst themselves for the rest of the market and public mindshare.

IMHO, it would be very smart to secure a premium .COM at this time in history with the intent to keep it for 20 years.

I concur 100%

 

[Ronald Regging]

I see big corporations going for reg fee names with three or four words rather than pay $$$$ for shorter names.

Most of these types of domains are purchased as disposable domains meant only to serve for a specific ad campaign and then they are retired to the corporate graveyard.

 

[DomainDomain]

Don't forget, .COM has already been around for 20 years and I don't see any indication that it's going anywhere. In fact it seems to be quite the opposite.

Each new extension that comes out only solidifies the position of .COM as the market leader as the "Global Contender" TLDs are left to fight amongst themselves for the rest of the market and public mindshare.

IMHO, it would be very smart to secure a premium .COM at this time in history with the intent to keep it for 20 years.

I fully agree also.
I think that the other ext. will increase in use, and that other ones will become available. These ext. will become more valuable, by quite a bit, but the .com I think will always rise in value in line with their increses.
DD

 

[Lasher]

.COM is going nowhere, the original post is like saying that land on Manhattan is going to be worthless because it is too overcrowded and everyone will just move out. It is overcrowded for a reason - people want to be there, same with .COM.

I do think that the more global use of .COM will eventually result in more attention for .US from Americans who can no longer assume that when they visit a .COM they're probably on a US site, but it is going to take time. If only Neustar weren't so passive about the whole thing, it would only take a few well placed ads to get the whole thing rolling nicely.

 

[cache]

the supply is limited for .com, thus the value should not depreciate.

However if there are some break through on the technology, people would no longer
visit website based on names (i.e., instead they always visit website based on the keyword ranks etc), then it may no longer hold the value

 

[owntype]

Apply for you own .extension for only $6.75/yr!

-- Internet Corporation for Assigned Extensions (ICAE)

 

[NameClerk]

Zilla,

Your comments help support the case for investing in alternate tld's and cctld's, however, in my opinion, they also strenghten the case for investing in .com's.

It's simple supply vs demand. When supply goes down, demand and price always go up.

Can someone offer an example where this isn't the case.

 

[omnia]

which new rule(s) are you refering to??

Possibility of charging whatever renewal fee they like for premium domains.
See the thread at:

http://www.namepros.com/industry-news/235149-critical-announcement-entire-domain-community.html

and others.

 

[billinchina]

Did somebody say the sky is falling?

 

[Joseph]

eh? Who gives there 7 year a domain for his birthday :O

:hehe:

 

[DNQuest.com]

eh? Who gives there 7 year a domain for his birthday :O

:hehe:

When my daughter turned 11, I gave her a domain... we built a site up and she uses it as a MB for her friends and stuff... it was fun.... but now she moved onto myspace and daddy's gift was laid by the wayside

 

[boebi]

When my daughter turned 11, I gave her a domain... we built a site up and she uses it as a MB for her friends and stuff... it was fun.... but now she moved onto myspace and daddy's gift was laid by the wayside

mayspace sucks.... I really hate it actully. Seeing my friends making crappy sites at myspace, or invisionfree, or blogger,.... Then they say: Look what a great site i have build, all on my own! But they havent, they just add some content uding some WYSIWYG (or however its called) editor...