news The end of Dot COM

[john_karr]

Dot COM will always be KING!!!

The Internet's long-restricted virtual real estate market is open for business.

Hundreds of new so-called top-level domains (TLDs) like .photography, .expert and .pizza are available now that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the domain name system, has expanded access to suffixes.

A handful of companies that prepared years ago to take advantage of this land grab are in a position to profit handsomely for years to come.

The new opening will also be a boost for brands looking to strengthen their online presence, but have been thwarted by domain-name squatters charging top dollar for the last remains of the dot-com universe.

Dot-com to .pizza: Welcome to the Web domain rush

 

[tomcarl]

Notice how every article about "The downfall of .com" sounds as if it was written with a bias point of view, throwing around words like "hoarder" and "squatter"

It's like if someone you turned down for a date had to write an article about you as a person.

 

[bmugford]

I don't know if it was local expression or not, but when young, xyz is what we would tell someone who forgot to zip their zipper after restroom.

Yep. XYZ = examine your zipper.

This is a good reason why .COM is not dead. New start ups still choose .COM at much higher rates than every other extension combined.

http://dngeek.com/2015/05/newly-funded-startups-and-their-domain-names-week-20/

Many of the ones who don't will upgrade to a high quality .COM later.

Brad

 

[iowadawg]

Just another article on .com.
You can read all about .com and why it is still KING and will be KING.
Right here on namepros.

 

[johname]

That article has a link blast from the past like it's happening today lol

 

[JB Lions]

thats a bit of a fallacy tbh. Not everybody alive right knows what a "dotcom" is. Likewise, as the new domains take off, more people will become to understand .xyz etc is a alternative for .com / .net etc. Likewise, not everybody alive will understand what a .xyz etc is. And that is why dotcom may not always be king.

Sorry, but that's wrong. It's basic math. Let me know when xyz even hits 1% of a .com. If you say may not be king, then you must have in mind what will be. So which one is going to top 117 million and rising every day?

Reading the article and fasttwitch

"he's encountered some frustrations in being an early adopter"

"Consumers, like machines, have to adapt to an all new Internet. Millions of new sites are certain to create some level of chaos and abuse."

"It's a conversation piece"

Yeah, not too bright. He'll probably pay a lot more long term than he would have coughed up for the .com. All that could have been avoided. But the world is full of people that don't think things thru and they become a part of some article, used as some example.

 

[The New Guy]

Usually articles like that are written because some PR person got ahold of a reporter and gave them a 'story idea'.

Those articles tend to end up looking like promotional pieces aimed at the people not involved in the industry.

 

[NameYourself]

"More importantly, companies finally have options and aren't forced to pay ridiculous prices.."

Whoever wrote this article clearly has not done adequate research to understand that the most valuable names in the new tlds are costing upwards of $60,000 per year to register. They do mention that on average most regular names sell for about twice what a .com would cost, but the premium keywords, are still going to cost you a hefty, inflated sum, whether it be the new tld registries themselves (via yearly premium fee) or a private market domain investor.

 

[NameFit]

Hi - I have followed this thread very religiously and I feel that we are missing an important angle here - user/consumer/visitor. What makes an extension/domain popular is he visitor and his/her word of mouth and not the site owner. They are the ones who drive the popularity.

Let me bring up a user scenario. I go driving out, I seen signs for

gocars.com
then I drive further, then I see go.cars
then I see cars.ninja.
Wait a minute, I see cars.agency, or was it agency.cars
then I see autocars.com
then on radio I hear cars.auto
then on TV I see ad for auto.cars

What do yo think is going through my mind. I think I am going cars.nuts!

Do you think I will remember any of these names, so what will be my starting point when I get to my computer? I have couple of options -

i) I can search in google just 'cars' or 'auto' and I will see what Google wants me to see and not what I want to see
ii) type-in directly the site name in browser, where do you think I will start?

I will leave it to you since you are the user!

 

[Mads]

Whenever I see some bloke from the corner comes up sayin KINGs Dyin!!
I picture this...

 

[enterscope]

Plus dot Com just sounds cooler.

 

[brandnow]

The problem with these retarded articles is do they really think there will be enough end users of .PIZZA and .TIRES who are willing to spend $50 a YEAR or much more for so-called premium domains to support an entire registry (such as .PIZZA and .TIRES). WHY ON EARTH would anybody? When anyone can grab a .COM or a .CLUB for $10 a YEAR? It just doesn't make any sense to invest in .PIZZA when it probably won't even survive more than a few years and you're spending a fortune just to own an extremely confusing domain name extension for consumers, which the consumers then have to put the work into recalling.

 

[jamesosix]

Why .com will always be king -

Sometimes on social networks you can enter a URL but not as a link.

For example as the title under your avatar.

When the user sees ChickensAteMyDinner.com they know it is a website. When the user sees ChickensAteMyDinner.xyz they don't necessarily know it is a website.

thats a bit of a fallacy tbh. Not everybody alive right knows what a "dotcom" is. Likewise, as the new domains take off, more people will become to understand .xyz etc is a alternative for .com / .net etc. Likewise, not everybody alive will understand what a .xyz etc is. And that is why dotcom may not always be king.

 

[dordomai]

The problem with these retarded articles is do they really think there will be enough end users of .PIZZA and .TIRES who are willing to spend $50 a YEAR or much more for so-called premium domains to support an entire registry (such as .PIZZA and .TIRES). WHY ON EARTH would anybody? When anyone can grab a .COM or a .CLUB for $10 a YEAR? It just doesn't make any sense to invest in .PIZZA when it probably won't even survive more than a few years and you're spending a fortune just to own an extremely confusing domain name extension for consumers, which the consumers then have to put the work into recalling.

that is exactly what i was thinking. The ultra killer commercial generic strings that were valuable in .com like pizza.com, vodka.com, diamonds.com don't work well on the right of the dot. There aren't really that many vodka producers or diamond sellers. the new gTLDs are not easy to sell far more difficult in a niche market. Talk about .horse? There isn't enough demand for these extensions to really make them take off.

 

[Alice Wonder Miscreations]

Why .com will always be king -

Sometimes on social networks you can enter a URL but not as a link.

For example as the title under your avatar.

When the user sees ChickensAteMyDinner.com they know it is a website. When the user sees ChickensAteMyDinner.xyz they don't necessarily know it is a website.

 

[NameOmnia]

I think that .com will still be the pack leader for a while then some new gtlds will gain popularity..maybe the .xyz and some others.

I think that they can easily coexist and one doesn't exclude the other.

 

[Alice Wonder Miscreations]

.xyz I think is a fad, it doesn't really mean anything. But .blog and .news and .music I predict will survive and see common usage, hopefully being used for content related to the extension.

.rocks and similar might survive too because the extension has marketing value, put the customer into a positive mindset before they click.

We'll see I suppose. A lot of stuff I predict doesn't go the way I predict. If it did I'd be able to afford .rich

 

[brandnow]

.xyz I think is a fad, it doesn't really mean anything. But .blog and .news and .music I predict will survive and see common usage, hopefully being used for content related to the extension.

.rocks and similar might survive too because the extension has marketing value, put the customer into a positive mindset before they click.

We'll see I suppose. A lot of stuff I predict doesn't go the way I predict. If it did I'd be able to afford .rich

dude somebody needs to do a kickstart though for your .rich idea

 

[hawkeye]

The problem with these retarded articles is do they really think there will be enough end users of .PIZZA and .TIRES who are willing to spend $50 a YEAR or much more for so-called premium domains to support an entire registry (such as .PIZZA and .TIRES).

?? Not sure anyone writing these types of 'retarded' article(s), really thinks about or cares about (or even why they should), how many or how much endusers spend on a domain or two, to support an entire registry! Seems that would be of a concern of the actual registry themselves, not a writers or an endusers concern. And least us not forget, $50 a year for a business to rent a domain, is not a big expense at all! Network Solutions has proven that for years! Heck, phone numbers cost a lot more a month. The only people that are 'affected' by $50 yearly domains, are domainers who want to reg many more than one or two domains.

 

[john_karr]

James Merder just spend the money and buy FastTwitch.com,get rid of Fasttwitch.training. .poormarketing

 

[Alice Wonder Miscreations]

I don't know if it was local expression or not, but when young, xyz is what we would tell someone who forgot to zip their zipper after restroom.

 

[Genius327]

.COM prices will continue to rise exponentially with the increasing demand.

It will get to a point where the prices of .com will get out of range for most of the people, and the masses will begin diverting to new extension. What will be that extension? Only time will tell.

In my opinion, no one stays the king forever. No one has and no one will.

 

[Cloud iVape]

well, unless the english dictionary expands, adds a few more letters and such, .com value isnt going anywhere but up IMO -- but that doesnt mean that non com's cant be equally as valuable. some gtlds just make me shake my head like..'am i on quaaludes or is the owner of this gtld?' haha

 

[nomen]

FastTwitch is a sucky name to begin with... Like really bad. The guy, and his firm, would have been better off by re-branding, i.e. buying an aftermarket name for a couple of thousands. Then that would have been the conversation starter/topic.

 

[dordomai]

"More importantly, companies finally have options and aren't forced to pay ridiculous prices.."

Whoever wrote this article clearly has not done adequate research to understand that the most valuable names in the new tlds are costing upwards of $60,000 per year to register. They do mention that on average most regular names sell for about twice what a .com would cost, but the premium keywords, are still going to cost you a hefty, inflated sum, whether it be the new tld registries themselves (via yearly premium fee) or a private market domain investor.

Yeah in fact the new gTLDs have taken squatting to a new level. Now a registry can virtually index anything they want to. Full control over their namespace. Most good keywords were expensive right from the start. Everything that is worth more than reg fee will get squatted sooner or later if it hasn't already.

The only reason why prices haven't exploded yet is because the demand isn't there. If there is demand you will see the prices exploding sooner or later.