news The End Of .COM

[DomainVP]

With the new Google acquisition of ABC.XYZ Lori Anne Wardi recently wrote an interesting article on "The Dawn of the Post Dot Com Era".

https://www.neustar.biz/blog/the-dawn-of-the-post-dot-com-era

It's notable to point out that Lori also was a representative of the .CO extension, when Twitter was using no_url_shorteners and Amazon bought A.co, Z.co, and K.co in 2011.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/17/amazon-buys-the-a-co-z-co-k-co-and-cloud-co-domains/

“We’re not looking for a major brand to switch over to .co, but every day new companies are starting and can’t get the domain name that they want,” says Wardi. “We want to be the domain of the next Twitter and the next Facebook.”

Big companies that bought new extensions; do you think the end result will be the same for .XYZ?

 

[venturefile.com]

Would you say a2zvids.com is better than a2zvideos.net...?...just wondering...

I would say that none of them are worth reg fee.. So they are equally very bad.

 

[lolud]

Long live the domain king..........com

 

[Fancy.domains]

The COM died, but then sold it's Vegas for +$30 million.

Pretty intense death-throes, I must say.

 

[Skip66]

I would say that none of them are worth reg fee.. So they are equally very bad.

what do you think makes them worthless...?...just curious and what do you think of LovelyVideos.Com...?

 

[venturefile.com]

what do you think makes them worthless...?...just curious and what do you think of LovelyVideos.Com...?

This is not the appraisal forum.. So if you are looking for appraisals post in the appraisal subforum..

 

[BhuvaneshKV]

.com is a king! never end.

 

[Charles Sweeney]

.com is a king! never end.

The King is dead, long live the King!

 

[lolud]

Now let's reason it out:

Those who believe that. Com is dead are those who had put their hard earned money into buying of new extensions.

Long live the king of domains
The other extensions are the subject of the king


A king always have subjects

 

[Genius327]

.XYZ will end up like .CO and so the other gTLDS.

 

[Charles Sweeney]

Something that hasn't been mentioned. .com is less popular outside the US because other countires have country code domains which are sometimes preferred to .com

The US until very recently didn't have a country code domain so it was .com for them.

I am in the UK. On one of my websites I use the .co.uk name. I have the .com name but prefer to use the .co.uk name to show the site is in the UK and is aimed at the UK. So for me, the .com has little value in this case.

This could explain why not everyone is welded to .com

 

[nomen]

Something that hasn't been mentioned. .com is less popular outside the US because other countires have country code domains which are sometimes preferred to .com

The US until very recently didn't have a country code domain so it was .com for them.

I am in the UK. On one of my websites I use the .co.uk name. I have the .com name but prefer to use the .co.uk name to show the site is in the UK and is aimed at the UK. So for me, the .com has little value in this case.

This could explain why not everyone is welded to .com

.US was established in 1985...

Edit: But you're right about that ccTLDs are most of the time preferred in other countries than US. If the businesses operate only on a national level, that is...

 

[disaac81]

GTLD's have always been used mainly by companies whose target audience is their country. So if you were a moving company you may choose your gtld. GLobal companies tend to prefer dot com for obvious reasons.

 

[Kate]

Something that hasn't been mentioned. .com is less popular outside the US because other countires have country code domains which are sometimes preferred to .com

It's something I have mentioned quite often but it's true
This is another reason why new extensions will struggle.
In fact, the relative market share of .com vs ccTLDs has been in constant decline for over a decade.

 

[VRdommy]

Someone just show me any of the TLD's that have sought after value like .info,.me,.TV, .cc before you try to make a point with me about any TLD since those being a sought after value and I will believe you.

Things are likely to change in the future 5-10 years but I'll deal with that when it comes. Today it is the reality on the ground here on earth that concerns me.
A bad name is a bad name in any extension and until there is value in .info & .biz, everything else will wait with exception to certain keywords that will help plow the way for something new to take hold.... but when ?.

 

[sOliver]

Wouldn't be the first time and I am sure it ain't going to be the last time

Exactly what I thought. It's just a reference and the extensions fit .. also because of the 'hipstar' marketing Negari did. This extension is still worthless and he knows it .. he's smart and now starts buying other extensions with that money he made. No matter how much you hate XYZ you got to admit that marketing was genius and he pulled off something incredible. That's one of the reasons why I would never consider buying a million dollar COM, that money is much better spent on marketing. Of course if you run a billion dollar company its worth it in the long run but for small business owners its usually better to spend on marketing especially with the availability of so many gTLDs now. INFO/ORG/NET will see massive drops due to gTLDs because they are now basically considered worthless unless they are ultra premium keywords...and ORG is doing a price increase? Incredibly stupid move by the manager. ORG will be 1/10 of what it is now in a few years, kudos to the operators.

 

[AMRO1001]

.xyz alone will Kill .com? What about the other 1500 gTLDs? including Brand gTLDs such as .google,.amazon...etc

.com is the king for very few years only...

 

[disaac81]

GTLD's have always been used mainly by companies whose target audience is their country. So if you were a moving company you may choose your gtld. GLobal companies tend to prefer dot com for obvious reasons.

I meant ccTLD not GTLDs

 

[Kenny]

It's like Deja Vu all over again.
This thread (same name, different date) has been resurrected so many times over the years that it reminds me of some running gag.
Except perhaps for their own country codes, outside of those of us directly involved, the general public still has such a limited understanding of what comes after the dot.

Questionable sales of the new .whatevers have been going on since .Info and .Biz were introduced way back when, and the hype will continue with each new extention as they are released.

Now some will say that new search methods will make the C/N/O's less popular. I have to disagree.
The same was said about direct type ins, that search and the ability to just click a link will nullify the advantage of the Com.
Never going to happen.

Yes, there is money to be made on some new exts, but the C/N/O's will always be prevalent in the minds of the non industry public.

Peace,
Cy

 

[Fonzie]

.US was established in 1985...

But it wasn't made available to the public until 2002 and by that time, .com was so far ahead in the minds of the public that it never stood a chance and has remained a massive underperformer (relative to its intuitive potential) to this day.

It (.us) is actually a great choice for a local business since you can get keywords that are otherwise long gone in .com and people intuitively seem to understand it, it has plenty of success stories however anecdotally, we made a local ag operator a site on a HisDomain.us and he suffered from communication breakdowns with his customers who would type in HisDomain.com or HisDomainUS.com.

Given enough time and energy, its possible that in a generaton or two, .com might lose its spot, or at least decline in preeminence but in the year 2015 and for all forseeable future, with the entirety of the grown-up internet on .com and not a single meaningful marketing budget poised towards marketing anything else (try to persuade a Michigan Avenue advertising war room to use a non .com and see how far you get), it ain't going anywhere any time soon and the kinds of people who report of its 'death' are the same idiots who were buying .tel, .co, .etc.

 

[Peter]

It's like Deja Vu all over again.
This thread (same name, different date) has been resurrected so many times over the years that it reminds me of some running gag.

Are you seriously suggesting that smart tv's etc haven't killed domains and the browser market :P

God damn it people were so sure.

 

[Soofi]

short lived hype!

 

[Maxwell]

If .com would ever die down the transition would take so long anyway that it's not even worth worrying about. People outside of this industry don't know about any of this; normal people don't even know there is anything other than .com, .net, and .org, .co, and .gov - because of this it would take long, long time to entirely convert.

Plus, some of biggest domain sales of all time occurred this year (vegas.com, porno.com, 360.com, etc.) It's honestly hotter than ever it seems like.

The only people that say it's coming to an end are the people who have stake in it's downfall.

 

[RU]

TheEndOf.com is taken since 2005 LOL

 

[kemjika11]

The fact that people have to come on a thread and shout ".com is still king" means that this king's dominance is weakening.

Just take a look at our world today!! Convention is being upturned and thats why for me, despite respecting .com, i have already accepted that there are profitable, in demand extensions other than .com. i mean how insecure can some .com lovers be? If .com really is the king then why does anyone have to come out and ask or confirm that its still king? like my saying goes- "insecurities are just like popcorn- they always have to jump out". so the more of you that come out to say what we all always assumed- that .com is king, youre only proving that .com is weakening. And yes, price is very important and .com is losing the price game(because its becoming a rich man's game and we all know the rich are so few in the world compared to average people). Few people have $xxxx to spend on a domain talk less of $xxxxx and even FEWER have six digits to spend on a domain so maybe thats why .com is weakening. Remember when everyone assumed the US economy will dominate forever? Well now we ALL KNOW its going to change very soon. Remember when we never thought the US would have a black president? well it already happened. So the world is going through some big changes now and i feel confident the domain market for alternative extensions will be very healthy in the near future.

 

[Kate]

This is a discussion forum, opinions are all over the place, so you also have to counter silly arguments all the time.

First of all, the end-of-dotcom spin always comes from the same people:

• ignorant story writers
• registries or registrars who have a vested interested and want to sell you something
  
• domainers who invested in new extensions and are looking for validation of their opinions. If they must knock down .com to make a point - they are insecure... Bitterness at missing the boat. Maybe you have also noticed they are newbies most of time, and don't have a lot of sales and experience under their belt. I have bad news for them: If you failed at dotcom, new extensions will not be your savior.

Next point: the relative market share of .com vs ccTLDs has been in constant decline for over a decade. But .com has continued to grow at a brisk pace. It outperforms all new extensions combined. Says something isn't it. With +110 milion registrations the accumulated mass is so enormous that quite frankly a shift is not going to occur overnight.
This is reality. You don't make good investment decisions by discarding reality.

I don't agree that .com is overpriced and out of reach. Most sales are in the low $,$$$ range, good domain names are even being bought for less than that. They are affordable for businesses. It's generally businesses that buy domain names, private persons usually won't pay a lot. People who don't want to pay a premium have always had alternatives available to them. Nothing has changed here.

The only thing that matters is reality so look around you, pay attention to the changes but don't believe the hype.
If .com is dying, why do people continue to register .com domains like crazy ? Why are we witnessing record sales ? What is your environment like ? The people around you, the corporations, do they use .com, ccTLDs, or new extensions ?