The future relevance of domain names

[Pommy - The DN Doc]

(Apologies for the abstract nature of this post.)

I think that it is easy for domainers like us to be caught up with our own inward looking thoughts and think in a tunnel vision sort of way. Does anyone else worry about a time when something else quicker and cheaper than the net will come upon us and all our DNs will become worthless?

I dont know what that might be, but technology keeps improving etc. The status quo gets superceded. For example, if you owned prime spot phone boxes you may have a steady income at one time but now everyone has a mobile phone. What about if you owned a newspaper, sellng ads to companies. I think we know where some of that revenue has gone.

It seems very fad based that a .com is worth a multiple of .net etc. OK .coms were there first but we are talking about virtual pieces of property anyway.

The current system of typing in a DN is open to typo errors and spelling levels are going down in much of the west. There could be commercial pressure to get a better system, although reassuringly, most companies have sorted out their .com presences and are guarding them zealously.

Just thinking aloud. Reassure me please, so I can get back to my cheap .info rereg hunt!!

 

[deleted984054565403]

I'll believe it when there are universally-used different ways to call someone on the telephone other than a string of numbers. :hehe:

 

[jacal1]

There will always be a need to rank or otherwise order the "results" of a query. While you are absolutely right that something else - probably voice activated - will come along that makes typing obsolete, the answers one gets in return still need to make sense. So, if I want some vodka, and I tell my computer "I'd like some vodka" it still needs to "think about" what answer(s) to give me. There will always be a need for ways to assess value and relevance, but whether tlds go away and are replaced by something else is a great question.

 

[Pommy - The DN Doc]

There will always be a need to rank or otherwise order the "results" of a query. While you are absolutely right that something else - probably voice activated - will come along that makes typing obsolete, the answers one gets in return still need to make sense. So, if I want some vodka, and I tell my computer "I'd like some vodka" it still needs to "think about" what answer(s) to give me. There will always be a need for ways to assess value and relevance, but whether tlds go away and are replaced by something else is a great question.

If TLDs do go away, we will be left "holding the baby"

 

[DDC_Cyn]

It's an interesting thought. Certainly Sony never thought Beta tapes would be replaced by VHS and then DVDs. It reminds me of a year or so ago when there was talk of forcing all adult domains to be a .xxx. If that had come to pass then all adult domains that were .coms would have become instantly worthless. Made for more than a few sleepless nights for people in the biz.

 

[Pommy - The DN Doc]

Thats the sort of thing that I was thinking of, except that was potential legal "innovation". What about some new technology that meant that the address bar was more like a google search bar. You type something in and it chooses a site for you. It already happens for a very limited number of terms, such as "microsoft" and btw I dont use MSN to search for the address toolbar.

This system seems to bypass the concept of TLDs.