.horse and .pizza are competing gTLD's...

[mjnels]

im just kidding.. that'd be ridiculous of course. so lets say 1,000 places opened in some town. all different types of stuff..all at once!

italian restaurant, bike shop, beer store, hiking tours, community college, computer store, trolly station, etc...

are these places all competing with each other? does .baseball compete directly with .bike? .baby?.pub? .map? :lol:

congratulations, you've just realized that the hundreds and eventually thousands of gTLD being introduced are not all competing with each other.

except many of them have advertising directed at domainers, so, in those cases they would each be competing directly for domain investor's $

^ this is a really good point. if i was a registry i would try to get some domainer dollars at the beginning but they should be digging deeper than that if theyre smart. domainer dollars will almost certainly dwindle eventually with the broken dreams..

 

[En]

PizzaHut.com, Dominos.com, PizzaExpress.com, PapaJohns.com (or .ccTLD for the whole country).

Who needs .pizza? Even .city will be a better option.

The only .horse with any value will be FloggingaDead.horse.com

Maybe Google.map? ...

 

[Kate]

.pizza might compete against .restaurant, some end users could be on the fence on this one :]
Or .store vs .shop.

I actually think that many extensions will have a small number of direct competitors, and they will all be trying to grab a share of the pie, that is very small to begin with.

With so many extensions there's bound to be some overlap.

I think the biggest problem is not competition though, but the lack of demand from end users. More worrying, many extensions have a narrow purpose so the pool of meaningful keywords is already limited.
And if the registries hoard the best keywords, or they get scooped up by speculators, the real end users will only see the crumbs left for them. And they will think, what's the point of all those TLDs :bah:

 

[En]

There won't be much competition at all for most of these .worthless extensions.

Apart from brand protection such as Brand.pizza, etc. competing against blackmailers.

 

[mjnels]

.pizza might compete against .restaurant, some end users could be on the fence on this one :]
Or .store vs .shop.

I actually think that many extensions will have a small number of direct competitors, and they will all be trying to grab a share of the pie, that is very small to begin with.

With so many extensions there's bound to be some overlap.

oh there will be direct competitors... but stating the number to be 1,000 or anywhere near that like many people are trying to do these days doesnt make sense.

whether or not they'll catch on "as a whole" and be a more acceptable alternative than .weird today is another story... i think they will eventually just by the sheer # of them getting noticed.

if they do catch on, its not gonna be like... wow i saw a .shop TLD 7 times this month therefore the .shop TLD is "better" than .pizza

itll probably be like .COM, ccTLD's and "everything else"

by "everything else" i dont mean that in a negative way like is seen today - i mean as an acceptable alternative to .COM

ill bet eventually people dont even think of pizza.shop as "alternative to .COM"... itll just be thought of as a regular website address.

 

[JB Lions]

im just kidding.. that'd be ridiculous of course. so lets say 1,000 places opened in some town. all different types of stuff..all at once!

italian restaurant, bike shop, beer store, hiking tours, community college, computer store, trolly station, etc...

are these places all competing with each other? does .baseball compete directly with .bike? .baby?.pub? .map? :lol:

congratulations, you've just realized that the hundreds and eventually thousands of gTLD being introduced are not all competing with each other.

This has already been gone thru before. Some pizza joint in some town, probably has a unique name, family name etc. All the local ones where I live do, and they're all on .com because it was available.

antonios.pizza is not better than antoniospizza.com.

Never heard of them competing with each other. More like not a real market for them, more of a novelty, premium keywords will be held by domainers like most other extensions, won't be enough real sites for the average person to notice etc. All the common sense reasons gone over to death why these will mostly fail.

 

[mjnels]

This has already been gone thru before. Some pizza joint in some town, probably has a unique name, family name etc. All the local ones where I live do, and they're all on .com because it was available.

the post you quoted has nothing to do with "which is better, antoniospizza.com or antonios.pizza"

talking about something completely different here danielson..

 

[JB Lions]

the post you quoted has nothing to do with "which is better, antoniospizza.com or antonios.pizza"

talking about something completely different here danielson..

That doesn't make sense either, it's a trend. Never saw anybody bringing up that point. Who said .baseball competes with .pizza?

 

[mjnels]

That doesn't make sense either, it's a trend.

oh OK, let me go find my bell bottoms.. brb

Who said .baseball competes with .pizza?

everyone who makes a big deal that "1,000 are coming out at once!"

 

[Kate]

Let's face it, mamma.pizza is no worse than facebook.com/mammapizza after all :lol:

 

[biggie]

:talk:

can I get some "grilled.horse" on that "cheese.pizza"

 

[Yo]

Well I think .pizza could work for a Pizza Chain that wants to give out free.pizza every Friday.

 

[JB Lions]

Well I think .pizza could work for a Pizza Chain that wants to give out free.pizza every Friday.

http://freepizza.com/ would really enjoy that promotion.

 

[m-i-k-e]

congratulations, you've just realized that the hundreds and eventually thousands of gTLD being introduced are not all competing with each other.

except many of them have advertising directed at domainers, so, in those cases they would each be competing directly for domain investor's $

 

[mjnels]

except many of them have advertising directed at domainers, so, in those cases they would each be competing directly for domain investor's $

thats a pretty good point.