news The Domain Industry Is About To Change BIGTIME!!!

[daj]

The net could see its biggest transformation in decades if plans to open up the address system are passed.

The net's regulators will vote on Thursday to decide if the strict rules on so-called top level domain names, such as .com or .uk, can be relaxed.

If approved, it could allow companies to turn their brands into domain names while individuals could also carve out their own corner of the net.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7468855.stm

 

[daj]

but...some of those domains don't make much sense....
food.boston or boston.food
drinks.boston or boston.drinks
airport.boston or boston.airport
clubs.boston or boston.clubs

the latter sound a lot better..and get more searches..

 

[Len]

I feel you are going to need a hell of a lot more than the proposed $100,000 to have any chance of the "Novelty Tld" surviving.

Firstly are they going to have to have enough appeal that people are going to buy the domains? For instance, with a pricepoint of $10 per reg you would have to attract 10,000 buyers just to break even!

Second, you would need a massive advertising campain to encourage users and buyers alike...This is not going to be cheap and there will be many flops if the general public reject these exotic reg's as some rich individuals/companies giant ego trip!

Thirdly, who is going to sell them? Sell them through established registrar's where they take their own cut from the sale? Or would you set up your own ICANN accredited registrar? Either way, more $$$$$'s, more potential losses!!

Finally, I think there would be a lot of TM issues with many of the potential ext's, which could result in it being lost to some giant comglomerate along with all the invested $"s.
JMO :blink:

 

[Hurley4540]

but...some of those domains don't make much sense....
food.boston or boston.food
drinks.boston or boston.drinks
airport.boston or boston.airport
clubs.boston or boston.clubs

the latter sound a lot better..and get more searches..

Either way, it will help people out by finding them easier.

 

[dotnom]

Another question maybe this :

What is better ?
- Take a short domain and sell subdomains (like centralnic does)
- Take a new extension ?

Do you think this will make people more open to services like this ?

 

[dotnom]

Yes this would be perfect for boston.com owner
Do you think that people will stop at .boston (for example) and not type .com ?

 

[Michael]

I think the last thing this industry needs is more pointless extensions.

 

[SonnyCooL]

Yes this would be perfect for boston.com owner
Do you think that people will stop at .boston (for example) and not type .com ?

yes ... some day they stop
i don't type google, yahoo even namepros with header or closing ...
FF3 do the job ....

 

[bfluid]

Another question maybe this :

What is better ?
- Take a short domain and sell subdomains (like centralnic does)
- Take a new extension ?

Do you think this will make people more open to services like this ?

Not imo. Would you rather type in .co.uk or .uk? Obviously the last... I hope. :D

 

[Hurley4540]

WorldDomination.Google

 

[newsiness]

if ICANN allows any tld...why not they allow non tld domain...
for example: user needs to type namepros instead of namepros.com

I think they want to make big money from having many tld(s).

 

[Hurley4540]

That would....not just work.

 

[dotnom]

Not imo. Would you rather type in .co.uk or .uk? Obviously the last... I hope. :D

Well i see what you say but i don't know if the examples are right

So would you prefer :

1. domain.lasvegas
2. domain.us.com


The 1st case made a deal with ICANN. May it's insured too
The 2nd case is backuped up from Verisign and he may be insured as well

 

[DnEbook]

WorldDomination.Google

Ha HA Ha

 

[PROXUS]

IMHO this new extensions idea make some sense ....but only in case, where registration price is high enough, to limit interest to serious companies and application process is screened. It could help big corporations, if they really, really want their separate domain and/or run multilevel sites (.ebay, .apple, .microsoft, .bmw, .audi)
It will be more like .travel / .pro / ,museum (by the way... personally I never use those extensions)

For the regular players, it will mean nothing. People will always type .com up to the point where actual PR and quality of SEO will be more important than domain itself.

I don't see situation where chicago.com will be replaced with for example: start.chicago or home.chicago

How about longer words like classifieds or realestate ? add prefix to that and you have a lot of typing :D

Personally I would be scared more about growing role of search engines than those exotic ideas made by ICANN. You could have PIZZA.com with PR1 and still loose in search engine with better developed NyPIZZA.net with PR7.
The time is coming where actual content will determine the value of the domain, not a name or extension.

 

[onlinelife]

For the regular players, it will mean nothing. People will always type .com up to the point where actual PR and quality of SEO will be more important than domain itself.

I don't see situation where chicago.com will be replaced with for example: start.chicago or home.chicago

How about longer words like classifieds or realestate ? add prefix to that and you have a lot of typing :D

The time is coming where actual content will determine the value of the domain, not a name or extension.

:bingo: Good point, Its like Pizza itself Vs Anything.pizza

 

[cityforums.com]

IMHO this new extensions idea make some sense ....but only in case, where registration price is high enough, to limit interest to serious companies and application process is screened. It could help big corporations, if they really, really want their separate domain and/or run multilevel sites (.ebay, .apple, .microsoft, .bmw, .audi)
It will be more like .travel / .pro / ,museum (by the way... personally I never use those extensions)

For the regular players, it will mean nothing. People will always type .com up to the point where actual PR and quality of SEO will be more important than domain itself.

I don't see situation where chicago.com will be replaced with for example: start.chicago or home.chicago

How about longer words like classifieds or realestate ? add prefix to that and you have a lot of typing :D

Personally I would be scared more about growing role of search engines than those exotic ideas made by ICANN. You could have PIZZA.com with PR1 and still loose in search engine with better developed NyPIZZA.net with PR7.
The time is coming where actual content will determine the value of the domain, not a name or extension.

New browsers like FF3 will help .anything

 

[johntv]

These are the stock prices of Marchex, who owns over 200,000 domain names, mainly all .com, for the last 10 days:

06-16-08: 12.61
06-17-08: 12.53
06-18-08: 12.42
06-19-08: 12.86
06-20-08: 12.81
06-23-08: 12.85 - day of announcement
06-24-08: 12.85
06-25-08: 13.39
06-26-08: 13.20
06-27-08: 13.64

The day before till the day after the announcement there is not much change, after that the stock is even rising.

It's probably still too early to call, although investors seem to be at the very least 'neutral' about it so far and not negative at all.

 

[raredn.com]

These are the stock prices of Marchex, who owns over 200,000 domain names, mainly all .com, for the last 10 days:

06-16-08: 12.61
06-17-08: 12.53
06-18-08: 12.42
06-19-08: 12.86
06-20-08: 12.81
06-23-08: 12.85 - day of announcement
06-24-08: 12.85
06-25-08: 13.39
06-26-08: 13.20
06-27-08: 13.64

The day before till the day after the announcement there is not much change, after that the stock is even rising.

It's probably still too early to call, although investors seem to be at the very least 'neutral' about it so far and not negative at all.

Very interesting post!

Thanks for sharing, rep added :tu:

 

[Pred]

Check out the Icann Paris Video here:

http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/487258-video-of-icann-announcement.html#post2877258

 

[briman1970]

I'm kind of neutral about this whole thing, but I'd love to see .sucks and .nsfw implemented sometime in the future. If .sucks ever comes out, I hope the owner of the TLD bans all corporations from registering.

If this scheme becomes a success in a few years, I actually think it could help exts such as .name finally become viable! Wouldn't that be a hoot. :o