discuss The official "Dot Com is King?" thread.

[PowerUp]

I've read alot of comments of domainers putting forth their ideas of why or why not dot com is King and which are the other possible extensions having potential to follow the rise of the .com.

Perhaps we could all appreciate these ideas better if we could bring (or dig) out facts and figures for analysis.

Below is a list of top 100 sites from Alexa ranking as at today. If anyone has a top 100 list from last year, then we could compare and see if there are any extensions gaining publicity faster than the others.

I encourage everybody to share more figures with us.

Alexa Top 100 (50 out of top 100 domains isn't a .com.)

1. yahoo.com
2. youtube.com
3. live.com
4. google.com
5. myspace.com
6. facebook.com
7. msn.com
8. hi5.com
9. wikipedia.org
10. orkut.com
11. blogger.com
12. rapidshare.com
13. fotolog.net
14. megaupload.com
15. google.fr
16. skyrock.com
17. friendster.com
18. microsoft.com
19. baidu.com
20. megarotic.com
21. google.cl
22. yahoo.co.jp
23. ebay.com
24. google.com.br
25. google.es
26. mail.ru
27. google.com.mx
28. seznam.cz
29. dailymotion.com
30. photobucket.com
31. youporn.com
32. google.pl
33. imdb.com
34. imageshack.us
35. vkontakte.ru
36. nasza-klasa.pl
37. qq.com
38. google.co.uk
39. flickr.com
40. megavideo.com
41. odnoklassniki.ru
42. google.de
43. metroflog.com
44. amazon.com
45. google.co.ve
46. redtube.com
47. google.com.ar
48. free.fr
49. wordpress.com
50. uol.com.br
51. google.com.co
52. imagevenue.com
53. mininova.org
54. wretch.cc
55. google.com.pe
56. onet.pl
57. aol.com
58. allegro.pl
59. yandex.ru
60. go.com
61. sina.com.cn
62. deviantart.com
63. google.co.in
64. bbc.co.uk
65. google.ca
66. craigslist.org
67. google.sk
68. adultfriendfinder.com
69. livejournal.com
70. globo.com
71. iwiw.hu
72. google.com.vn
73. wp.pl
74. netlog.com
75. perfspot.com
76. google.co.hu
77. googlesyndication.com <--- Adsense bot traffic?
78. google.it
79. terra.com.br
80. ebay.fr
81. google.cn
82. veoh.com
83. fc2.com
84. google.co.th
85. fotka.pl
86. orange.fr
87. rambler.ru
88. onemanga.com
89. badongo.com
90. google.com.tr
91. 51.com
92. geocities.com
93. taobao.com
94. mediafire.com
95. ebay.de
96. megaflirt.com
97. ebay.co.uk
98. sexyono.com
99. apple.com
100. google.co.jp

# .org = 3
# .net = 1
# .fr = 4
# .cl = 1
# .co.jp = 2
# .com.br = 3
# .es = 1
# .ru = 5
# .com.mx = 1
# .cz = 1
# .pl = 6
# .us = 1
# .co.uk = 3
# .de = 2
# .co.ve = 1
# .com.ar = 1
# .com.co = 1
# .cc = 1
# .com.pe = 1
# .com.cn = 1
# .co.in = 1
# .ca = 1
# .sk = 1
# .hu = 2
# .com.vn = 1
# .co.hu = 1
# .it = 1
# .cn = 1
# .co.th = 1
# .com.tr = 1

 

[equity78]

Trying to convince them to pay big money for a domain is like me trying to visit a Dunkin Donuts and recruiting people to join me for my Saturday morning sprint interval workouts in the South Florida summer heat.

That was good.

 

[JB Lions]

Most new websites that rise up are built by young entrepreneurs. I'm only talking about the future. I'm not talking about the now. I don't think people are generally using ngtlds at the moment. However sites under "csgo trading" is a good example of how it could be in the future.



Sorry for bumping an old one but glad it can be used for archaeology.

There are lots of old threads on this. Most startups are avoiding new gtlds like the plague, just go look at the numbers. These type of threads are always silly. Not one person can give me 1 extension that would surpass .com.

 

[HotKey]

Not really sure what you are talking about? Where did I say I don't care. I said these kids and models don't care and don't care about my opinion on domain names. When I get outside the people I know from domaining, everyone else family, friends, etc... They think domaining is either the dumbest or most boring thing they have ever heard, I have gone to parties where someone asked me to please not talk about domain names.

That was little harsh and incorrect, I apologize. I guess I'm just used to the people I call friends and family, colleagues and business associates having an open mind to what I have to say, out of respect at the very least, even if the DN passion isn't shared. This is where the fight for awareness/acceptance begins. And over time, I've found, people will go out of their way to ask me, rather than me have to probe: what's up with the domain name game, where is it headed, is this a good name, etc..

Not to say, too often am I asked, "so do I have to put .com after that?" on a gTLD name discussion. But a gentle correction is all it takes. Though, I have had people laugh in my face. Examples of real world usage helps too. I've been using a gTLD email address for almost 4 years now, with business contacts and family, they all understand now .com is not the be all and end all.

But you're right, DN's in general aren't an important issue to most unless its ones craft, or a business needing a presence.

I think to get people to talk about DN, is all about presentation. Com has been around for so long, it's tough to generate excitement on it. Whereas new tld entrants pose all sorts of angles that get me excited, and am able to reflect that in conversations.

 

[MapleDots]

also there are like 10 google.(local tld) on that list, I doubt that shows any cctld strength, simply a lot of people live in Poland, Mexico, Brasil etc.

Actually, I beg to differ...

google.ca is 65th on the list and the country only has 37 million people.
The .ca TLD is widely used in Canadian Business and is almost at par with .com

A lot of that is because for commerce Canadians trust .ca and the fact that they are reasonably priced against their .com counterparts.

ccTLD's are indeed very strong and on their own would be considered a great success. It is only once you measure them against a global powerhouse like .com that they show weakness.

.com is and always will remain king but that does not mean there is any weakness in ccTLD's. It is simply a numbers game of regional vs global. We know that a country code can never compete against the dominant global extension but nonetheless the ccTLD's have some respectable numbers in a lot of countries.