Let's Talk About .WEB

[brandnow]

I know it's a bit premature, but I really would like to read opinions from NamePros people on .web. It feel like most opinions I read on blogs and forums are overall very positive about .web's success. I am curious what people think though. If you think that .web will really be a huge success or whether all of the hype about .web might cause it to fall short of exceptions. Do you think someday will become almost an equal to .com? Or do you think .web will become just another nGTLD?

Personally, since first hearing about .web I thought.. awesome that might be able to one day match .com in attractiveness to domain investors and some end users. However, over the last few months I've seen so much hype, that I am also starting to feel concerned that .web will not live up to the hype of being the killer nGTLD.

Obviously only time will tell the answers for sure. But now is an interesting time where it is several months before the .WEB release, and there is time to contemplate and discuss about it.

 

[Alice Wonder Miscreations]

I don't think any of them need to take over and surpass .com to be a huge a success.

The CMS I'm coding (my startup) - it will never beat WordPress but if I get even 5% of the marketshare WordPress has, I'll be set. It's not always about being the most saturated market, that's following the crowd.

I'd rather type a short link into twitter that includes my brand name than a no_url_shorteners link that doesn't - and that I think is where .web will shine. Short gTLD where good short brand specific domain names are not all gone. And it's a one syllable extension like com / net / org / mil / gov.

 

[brandnow]

.Web is gonna be killer (as long as pricing is right).. but yeah getting good names is gonna pose a problem for nearly anyone.

 

[Pickout Domains]

.WEB could be a real winner for those domains that use exact match keywords or well known brands. Thumbs up from me.

 

[Alice Wonder Miscreations]

I like .net. Some of my websites, the .com redirects to the .net.

With respect to .web it doesn't appeal to me, but that just may be me. It's better than .ninja or .sucks and it may be the most successful of the new ones (.xyz? Really?) but it doesn't really say anything.

Originally .net was intended for network infrastructure but I like to see .net for network of the none IP type, a community of users.

I can't think of anything that .web says to me.

I just need to clear up that I have switched and I currently find .web to be extremely appealing, if they don't do the premium name thing.

To me the premium name thing feels to much like a street gang expecting you to kick up a periodic vig or they destroy your business.

 

[GoKaizen]

http://domainincite.com/20833-verisign-confirms-it-did-fund-135-million-web-bid

 

[deez007]

I think with Verisign climbing on board it could do wonders for .web credibility.

 

[JLJ]

Is there a date for when the .web will be available to preregister?

 

[GoKaizen]

http://domainative.com/verisign-statement-regarding-web-auction-results/

 

[brandnow]

I have said this before.. but I am glad that Verisign got it.. my hope (whether it comes true or not) is that they will treat .web the same as .com.. similar pricing, etc.. no premiums, etc. If a company like Donuts were to get .web.. I would bet that they would make the cost $25 / year and set tens of thousands of names to premium pricing. So that's why I was hoping that either Verisign or Google would get .web.. Google probably would have given the names away for free to Gmail users (again just my own guess).. but hopefully Verisign treats it the same as .com and it will be win-win for both domainers and end users. My 3c

 

[Chris Rice]

I just need to clear up that I have switched and I currently find .web to be extremely appealing, if they don't do the premium name thing.

To me the premium name thing feels to much like a street gang expecting you to kick up a periodic vig or they destroy your business.

If they don't do the "Premium Thing" investors like Mike Mann will purchase the first 1 to 3 million names using a computer program at reg fees on the 1st day anyway.

So it would be the same result but the money would be in the pockets of big-time domainers instead of Verisign, but let's see what theu do.

 

[doubleU]

I'm sure '.web' was considered when deciding a name/string for the very first generic TLD 31 years ago but it just so happened to be '.com'

If '.web' was decided 31 years ago, then '.com' could very well have ended up some kind of new gTLD with high renewal fees and belittled as a poor alternative to the king .web

.com is king because it was the first truly generic unrestricted gTLD introduced for worldwide commercial use.

By the time newer TLDs were introduced and some even becoming less restrictive it was all too late because .com had already cherry picked the biggest companies and entities in the world many who were already established for decades or even hundreds of years, this truly cannot happen again and that's why .com gained a reputation second to none.

.web has a chance of coming second IMO

 

[biggie]

i think every word or phrase that would fit with .web, will probably be reserved for premium registration or listed for auction.


cuz, dey gots ta get dey dough back


imo....

 

[RU]

does any know how many pre-regs in .web?

 

[brandnow]

does any know how many pre-regs in .web?

zero.. pre-regs are not available yet.

 

[atinc]

BINGO!!

@Rick Schwartz Will you invest on .web extension?

 

[TRY]

@Rick Schwartz Will you invest on .web extension?

Go to Rick's blog, you can see what he wrote on his view on the extension, but I will safely guess you already have....hence the loaded question, smh.

 

[Rick Schwartz]

@Rick Schwartz Will you invest on .web extension?

I don't know. I look at all gTLD's as a horse race. If I go to the track what are the chances of picking a trifecta? And that is with 10-15 .horses.

How do I pick the top 3 with 1000 .horses?
There will be 997 .horses that don't make the top 3.
975 .horses that won't make the top 25.

.Web is the odds on favorite for many reasons. Why do you think all those lawsuits are for?
SELF PRESERVATION!

Because when it comes out, will suck ALL the oxygen out of the room. It won't help the other gTLD's. It can and will destroy many. Consolidation is already here. Predicted that 3 years ago.

I don't know, but .web may be another .net. It may also become the REAL .com alternative. We will see how many here have the $$$ left to play in that arena. That is the BIGGIE!

 

[atinc]

I don't know, but .web may be another .net. It may also become the REAL .com alternative. We will see how many here have the $$$ left to play in that arena. That is the BIGGIE!

Do you have any information on release time of dot Web?

Just a little gesture from a namePros member:

You have a typo on your website domainking.com - You might want to fix it.

Where:

Most Recent 2016-2017 Acquisitions:

CAMPAIGNADVISOR.COM.COM

 

[sarahsdomains]

Do you have any information on release time of dot Web?

Just a little gesture from a namePros member:

You have a typo on your website domainking.com - You might want to fix it.

Where:

Most Recent 2016-2017 Acquisitions:

CAMPAIGNADVISOR.COM.COM

May be it's a new gtld gtld that we don't know off

 

[atinc]

I don't know. I look at all gTLD's as a horse race. If I go to the track what are the chances of picking a trifecta? And that is with 10-15 .horses.
How do I pick the top 3 with 1000 .horses?
There will be 997 .horses that don't make the top 3.
975 .horses that won't make the top 25.

I think same counts for .Com as well.
There are millions of domains registered with .Com
The probability to register good names today after the establishment of dot com back in 1985 doesn`t give domainers much chance to pick a winning horse.

But for new gTLD investors, there is and will be more opportunities if they invest on domains smartly.