discuss If .com had never existed, would domain names still hold the same power today?

[nicenic]

Imagine a web without .com, no google.com, no amazon.com, no facebook.com.

Would domains still shape how people remember brands? Or would the internet have evolved into nothing more than a network of search results and social profiles?

Which TLD do you think could have taken its place or risen the fastest, and would that have changed domain investing?

 

[alop]

What? You get a phone all apps are installed even before you click meta

 

[katerleonid]

I still remember, many years ago, a classmate from school asked me, “Have you heard about Google? It’s a search engine.”
I replied, “What? What do I need that for?”

I still remember the days when information was shared without search engines - at least when I was a kid.

 

[alop]

cant see what katerkalazwatza wrote but I voted for a no

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Our brains sure wouldn’t be as clean as they are now.

 

[biggie]

Hi

trolling general discussion

imo…

 

[enterscope]

In an alternate universe, it was .horse that was first domain extension.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

.egg or .chicken
Whick one will icann release first?

 

[alop]

.egg or .chicken
Whick one will icann release first?

Im not familiar with such extensions but why don't you come and throw a deal

 

[Eric Lyon]

If we throw-back in history we'll see:

• symbolics.com, was created on March 15, 1985
• nordu.net, was created on January 1, 1985.

Making .net the technical first domain registration.

With the above in mind, if .com never existed, it would default to the very first, .net

 

[johnn]

Another nonsense thread.

 

[Vertibox]

Imagine a web without .com, no google.com, no amazon.com, no facebook.com.

Would domains still shape how people remember brands? Or would the internet have evolved into nothing more than a network of search results and social profiles?

Which TLD do you think could have taken its place or risen the fastest, and would that have changed domain investing?

You can ask the same/similar questions about everything in the human only world, but no-one really does because there is no point. We can't go back in time nor also, while having current knowledge.

Dystopian movies try to depict what they think would happen if suddenly there wasn't any electricity, or there was mass population extinction, big rise in sea levels, big increases or decreases in temperature, etc., but they can't ever know what would happen of course, nor can they know ALL the possible ramifications of such scenarios.

Even though we have written records of what life was like 150-200-300-500 + years ago, nobody alive now can know what living was actually like back then because we all know of and live in the modern world.
Imagine telling people alive now there are no washing machines, and that they have to go to their local river and beat their clothes on rocks to clean them. Oh and no soap either.

We are all prisoners of our time and no one can escape that.

So why, exactly, did you need to ask this really pointless question?

 

[nicenic]

What? You get a phone all apps are installed even before you click meta

Yeah, apps changed access habits but domains still anchor authenticity across platforms.

I still remember, many years ago, a classmate from school asked me, “Have you heard about Google? It’s a search engine.”
I replied, “What? What do I need that for?”

I still remember the days when information was shared without search engines - at least when I was a kid.

Right, it’s crazy how that shift happened what do you think truly fueled that change?

Our brains sure wouldn’t be as clean as they are now.

Looooool, what kind of sites you been visiting to get your brain messy, bro?

Hi

trolling general discussion

imo…

Hi

you think .biggie could’ve been the king of the internet in some alternate universe?

imo…

In an alternate universe, it was .horse that was first domain extension.

Then Nike.horse would have to change itheir slogan to “Just ride it.” looooool

.egg or .chicken
Whick one will icann release first?

Haha I’d bet on .chicken first it always shows up before anything gets cracked

If we throw-back in history we'll see:

• symbolics.com, was created on March 15, 1985
• nordu.net, was created on January 1, 1985.

Making .net the technical first domain registration.

With the above in mind, if .com never existed, it would default to the very first, .net

So what do you think could’ve gone head-to-head with .net in a no-.com world?

You can ask the same/similar questions about everything in the human only world, but no-one really does because there is no point. We can't go back in time nor also, while having current knowledge.

Dystopian movies try to depict what they think would happen if suddenly there wasn't any electricity, or there was mass population extinction, big rise in sea levels, big increases or decreases in temperature, etc., but they can't ever know what would happen of course, nor can they know ALL the possible ramifications of such scenarios.

Even though we have written records of what life was like 150-200-300-500 + years ago, nobody alive now can know what living was actually like back then because we all know of and live in the modern world.
Imagine telling people alive now there are no washing machines, and that they have to go to their local river and beat their clothes on rocks to clean them. Oh and no soap either.

We are all prisoners of our time and no one can escape that.

So why, exactly, did you need to ask this really pointless question?

Just here to see gems like your thoughtful and spot-on comments, that’s all Vertibox!

 

[Eric Lyon]

So what do you think could’ve gone head-to-head with .net in a no-.com world?

.org, of course

 

[nicenic]

.org, of course

In a world without .com I was totally rooting for my favorite .chocolate to take the crown lol.

 

[Grego85]

it would have made 0 difference. It's just what ended up being the default.

 

[nicenic]

it would have made 0 difference. It's just what ended up being the default.

Maybe, though defaults stick because early trust habits form fast and shape long-term naming behavior.