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May 27, 2008
.TV .MOBI .FM - The Multi-Media Web and The Longtail of Domaining
The Web2.0 gTLD's (.tv, .mobi, .fm) vs. The Web1.0 gTLD's (.com, .net, .org) has become a highly controversial main event fight for those sitting ringside in the domainersphere. One that is liken to the age where feuds would tend to notoriously erupt between various schools of thought embodied by a broad, or should I say 'MEGA' subject matter. One just need glance to the physical world to find evidence of such. In Government, we see many politics. In Faith, we see many religions. In Education, we see many institutions. In Love, we see the endlessness of the stars. And in the digital world of Domains, well, will ICANN ever stop introducing new gTLD's?
The fact is, that for as long as there are policy makers, charismatic leaders, and impassioned teachers clustering along side end users; whom of which are actively participating in the various camps; all movements (including new gTLD's) shall continue to evolve. Sometimes expanding, and at other times contracting. And why shouldn't they? We exist in a physical world of multiple dimensions and it only stands with reason that the web should reflect similarly.
Taking the TLD debate to another level. (or algorithm to be geekfully accurate.) How often does one see a .mobi advocate bash a .com traditionalist? It rarely happens right? In fact, it's more often the case that a heavily entrenched .com insider; who is content with the way things currently work; is quick to dismiss every other extension as if the .com is the one and only continent left floating above water ever since the bubble busted. Where as, at the outer rim of the spectrum, there are thousands of new fish swimming in, causing billions of bubbles to jetstream through the screen. It's only natural that the old fogies rocking on their parked pages be a little alarmed.
The debate is far from dead. Content specific, multi-media domain extensions such as .tv, .mobi, .fm and all .ccTLD's are steadily traveling up the value chain and being filled with user interfaces and meaningful databases of information. As long as this is the case, true value will continue to be tacked into and onto these young, perfectly capable domain name extensions. It would take more than an uprising by traditional web revolutionaries to knock any of these new fronts out of their current naturalization processes.
It is the bright domainers, and the bright developers, along side the bright global users that will make up the broader (and even brighter!) ever evolving wireless marketspace. Every game is changing across the board. NO reputable player is disputing that. There will be NO industry left untouched or unturned by the paradigm shifting innovations manifesting from The Information Age. This includes habitual old school domaining practices like forever parking .coms in hopes of direct navigation type-ins with jackpot click-throughs. Or even more forlorn beliefs, such as, only one TLD extension is to be the salvation of the web.
The forward thinkers who choose to stay the course by instituting calculated but consistent developments into their diversified domaining strategies as the technologies evolve, will be the ones who are recognized as the evolutionary pioneers that paved the wireless-way for The Mobile Multi-Media Web to flourish. Furthermore, once the controversial multi-media TLD extensions have been integrated by development (not by auctions or aftermarket sales stats) into the broader web user space, we will then know without doubt what we have believed all along.
With all ego's aside, those who really care about proclaiming themselves as a pioneer of a certain space are the ones that quite simply just never got IT in the first place. We're building the broader, global, semantic web as a unifier, not a manufacturer of brickwalls. I'd like to believe that this thing we are constructing is a bridge builder, not a top down infrastructure, middle man facilitator. Indeed, what a travesty it would be if the web was being specifically designed by it's so called "pioneers" to harness, control and capitalize upon the rising populaces. Which ironically without, it would not even exist.
This beast called Web1.0, called .com, called fear and old school capitalism, is pissed and it's fury is being notated. OK, so as a self-appointed liberator of the underdog domainer I guess I'll throw a few jabs back at the traditionalists among us. It is with jealousy, glaring from the corner of it's yellowing eyes, and with its nostrils flaring and bellowing smoke, that this dragon's inflated head spins back to see it's spiky longtail being filled with a million-billion miles of purpose and meaning.
The thing is definitely not happy, and it is not planning on going down easily. But the beautiful part about it is that the angrier it gets, the more defiant the David's become. It is truly a modern day reinterpretation of the infinite symbol of the ouroboros. Yet in this case, the dragon, the immortal, perfectly constructed animal, is in tangled in it's own self defeat and responsible for its own eventual demise.
As creators, as developers, as Do-It-Your-Selfers we are all deeply embedding ourselves into this transitional moment in history. Unlike the speculators and profiteers whom have brought only shame and discourse to the industry of the web, my intentions, although many fold, are being carefully crafted and are valiantly reliant upon an in depth participatory conversation with the larger, global community. Because, it is in here, among these breathless pixels that I believe, many of today's most brilliant minds and human spirits do gather for change.
I write this with a deep sincerity and I'm anxious to meet more of you who are committed to continuing with the building of IT with an unwavering allegiance to the Truth. If we are capable of bringing to our planet, and to the other inhabitants that exist here with us, a more meaningful and compassionate existence, by inventing and utilizing human centric technologies over the Internet, then by all means we should do it and never second guess our decision to do so. Overall, I believe that by acting on these aspirations it should lead us to a collective bettering of the human condition.
OK.. I'll remove my Chi Guevara beret and finish this post. But, I must reiterate that I find it disenchanting and absolutely remarkable how so many credible, domain industry veteran investors appear to still be missing the mark when it comes to understanding these fascinating domain extensions. Instead of exploring the many possibilities and communities that are building up around these unique extensions, they continue their relentless attacks. Presumably in hopes of sanctifying their past admittedly profound achievements? What's really going here?
Dotcom has come along way, but so has the web. Dotcom wouldn't mean anything to anyone if it were not for the very passionate and creatively smart development teams and evangelizers, who have taken to the streets despite the risks and warnings. Along with billions of dollars in venture capital that stuck around after the ".com meltdown", these visionaries are responsible for resurrecting and re-invigorating the web as we know it today. There is no real difference in scenarios happening now. We're just a little older, and I'd like to believe, a whole lot smarter. I find it truly amazing to imagine what the webs of tomorrow may resemble.
It took over 10 years for broadband internet access to become ubiquitous in the home, along side 10 years of nay saying. And now we move forward to a similar adoption cycle of another revolutionizing technology implementation. The utilization of TV whitespace or the dark fiber/700 megahertz wireless spectrum is gaining ground. If that confuses you click here, but just know it's a very realistic future that will no doubt be readily in use by 2012.
In closing, I'd like to say that I hope my posts are not becoming too long winded for you to read and that you are not being too belabored by my sometimes tangent-like bewilderings. I truly do appreciate you taking the time to scan my thoughts and just want you to know that if at anytime you feel lead to ask a question or compelled to leave a comment, be it critical or complementary, please do so. To me, extending these conversations that are going on inside of our heads is really what these blogs are all about.
I'll leave you with this last meandering of a thought. Globally, meaningful, multi-media TLD development and it's widespread adoption among users should take less than half the time that .com/.net/.org took. Specifically due to, one, the current low cost of robust desktop connectivity. Two, the global talent infrastructure that is in place to help perform aggressive development tasks. And three, the law of compounded artificial intelligence or what some refer to as the exponentially ever-expanding cloud. In essence, the internet is doubling in intelligence every time we click publish. OK it's late...
Until the next time that I get an urge... Keep making them great!
Jamie Parks
Domainer/Developer/User
P.S. Yahoo to raise domain registration price to $34.95/yr! Looks like Network Pollutions will have some competition in the highway robbery profession.
Source: http://www.domainerdeveloper.com/2008/05/tv-mobi-fm---th.html
Best,
A
.TV .MOBI .FM - The Multi-Media Web and The Longtail of Domaining
The Web2.0 gTLD's (.tv, .mobi, .fm) vs. The Web1.0 gTLD's (.com, .net, .org) has become a highly controversial main event fight for those sitting ringside in the domainersphere. One that is liken to the age where feuds would tend to notoriously erupt between various schools of thought embodied by a broad, or should I say 'MEGA' subject matter. One just need glance to the physical world to find evidence of such. In Government, we see many politics. In Faith, we see many religions. In Education, we see many institutions. In Love, we see the endlessness of the stars. And in the digital world of Domains, well, will ICANN ever stop introducing new gTLD's?
The fact is, that for as long as there are policy makers, charismatic leaders, and impassioned teachers clustering along side end users; whom of which are actively participating in the various camps; all movements (including new gTLD's) shall continue to evolve. Sometimes expanding, and at other times contracting. And why shouldn't they? We exist in a physical world of multiple dimensions and it only stands with reason that the web should reflect similarly.
Taking the TLD debate to another level. (or algorithm to be geekfully accurate.) How often does one see a .mobi advocate bash a .com traditionalist? It rarely happens right? In fact, it's more often the case that a heavily entrenched .com insider; who is content with the way things currently work; is quick to dismiss every other extension as if the .com is the one and only continent left floating above water ever since the bubble busted. Where as, at the outer rim of the spectrum, there are thousands of new fish swimming in, causing billions of bubbles to jetstream through the screen. It's only natural that the old fogies rocking on their parked pages be a little alarmed.
The debate is far from dead. Content specific, multi-media domain extensions such as .tv, .mobi, .fm and all .ccTLD's are steadily traveling up the value chain and being filled with user interfaces and meaningful databases of information. As long as this is the case, true value will continue to be tacked into and onto these young, perfectly capable domain name extensions. It would take more than an uprising by traditional web revolutionaries to knock any of these new fronts out of their current naturalization processes.
It is the bright domainers, and the bright developers, along side the bright global users that will make up the broader (and even brighter!) ever evolving wireless marketspace. Every game is changing across the board. NO reputable player is disputing that. There will be NO industry left untouched or unturned by the paradigm shifting innovations manifesting from The Information Age. This includes habitual old school domaining practices like forever parking .coms in hopes of direct navigation type-ins with jackpot click-throughs. Or even more forlorn beliefs, such as, only one TLD extension is to be the salvation of the web.
The forward thinkers who choose to stay the course by instituting calculated but consistent developments into their diversified domaining strategies as the technologies evolve, will be the ones who are recognized as the evolutionary pioneers that paved the wireless-way for The Mobile Multi-Media Web to flourish. Furthermore, once the controversial multi-media TLD extensions have been integrated by development (not by auctions or aftermarket sales stats) into the broader web user space, we will then know without doubt what we have believed all along.
With all ego's aside, those who really care about proclaiming themselves as a pioneer of a certain space are the ones that quite simply just never got IT in the first place. We're building the broader, global, semantic web as a unifier, not a manufacturer of brickwalls. I'd like to believe that this thing we are constructing is a bridge builder, not a top down infrastructure, middle man facilitator. Indeed, what a travesty it would be if the web was being specifically designed by it's so called "pioneers" to harness, control and capitalize upon the rising populaces. Which ironically without, it would not even exist.
This beast called Web1.0, called .com, called fear and old school capitalism, is pissed and it's fury is being notated. OK, so as a self-appointed liberator of the underdog domainer I guess I'll throw a few jabs back at the traditionalists among us. It is with jealousy, glaring from the corner of it's yellowing eyes, and with its nostrils flaring and bellowing smoke, that this dragon's inflated head spins back to see it's spiky longtail being filled with a million-billion miles of purpose and meaning.
The thing is definitely not happy, and it is not planning on going down easily. But the beautiful part about it is that the angrier it gets, the more defiant the David's become. It is truly a modern day reinterpretation of the infinite symbol of the ouroboros. Yet in this case, the dragon, the immortal, perfectly constructed animal, is in tangled in it's own self defeat and responsible for its own eventual demise.
As creators, as developers, as Do-It-Your-Selfers we are all deeply embedding ourselves into this transitional moment in history. Unlike the speculators and profiteers whom have brought only shame and discourse to the industry of the web, my intentions, although many fold, are being carefully crafted and are valiantly reliant upon an in depth participatory conversation with the larger, global community. Because, it is in here, among these breathless pixels that I believe, many of today's most brilliant minds and human spirits do gather for change.
I write this with a deep sincerity and I'm anxious to meet more of you who are committed to continuing with the building of IT with an unwavering allegiance to the Truth. If we are capable of bringing to our planet, and to the other inhabitants that exist here with us, a more meaningful and compassionate existence, by inventing and utilizing human centric technologies over the Internet, then by all means we should do it and never second guess our decision to do so. Overall, I believe that by acting on these aspirations it should lead us to a collective bettering of the human condition.
OK.. I'll remove my Chi Guevara beret and finish this post. But, I must reiterate that I find it disenchanting and absolutely remarkable how so many credible, domain industry veteran investors appear to still be missing the mark when it comes to understanding these fascinating domain extensions. Instead of exploring the many possibilities and communities that are building up around these unique extensions, they continue their relentless attacks. Presumably in hopes of sanctifying their past admittedly profound achievements? What's really going here?
Dotcom has come along way, but so has the web. Dotcom wouldn't mean anything to anyone if it were not for the very passionate and creatively smart development teams and evangelizers, who have taken to the streets despite the risks and warnings. Along with billions of dollars in venture capital that stuck around after the ".com meltdown", these visionaries are responsible for resurrecting and re-invigorating the web as we know it today. There is no real difference in scenarios happening now. We're just a little older, and I'd like to believe, a whole lot smarter. I find it truly amazing to imagine what the webs of tomorrow may resemble.
It took over 10 years for broadband internet access to become ubiquitous in the home, along side 10 years of nay saying. And now we move forward to a similar adoption cycle of another revolutionizing technology implementation. The utilization of TV whitespace or the dark fiber/700 megahertz wireless spectrum is gaining ground. If that confuses you click here, but just know it's a very realistic future that will no doubt be readily in use by 2012.
In closing, I'd like to say that I hope my posts are not becoming too long winded for you to read and that you are not being too belabored by my sometimes tangent-like bewilderings. I truly do appreciate you taking the time to scan my thoughts and just want you to know that if at anytime you feel lead to ask a question or compelled to leave a comment, be it critical or complementary, please do so. To me, extending these conversations that are going on inside of our heads is really what these blogs are all about.
I'll leave you with this last meandering of a thought. Globally, meaningful, multi-media TLD development and it's widespread adoption among users should take less than half the time that .com/.net/.org took. Specifically due to, one, the current low cost of robust desktop connectivity. Two, the global talent infrastructure that is in place to help perform aggressive development tasks. And three, the law of compounded artificial intelligence or what some refer to as the exponentially ever-expanding cloud. In essence, the internet is doubling in intelligence every time we click publish. OK it's late...
Until the next time that I get an urge... Keep making them great!
Jamie Parks
Domainer/Developer/User
P.S. Yahoo to raise domain registration price to $34.95/yr! Looks like Network Pollutions will have some competition in the highway robbery profession.
Source: http://www.domainerdeveloper.com/2008/05/tv-mobi-fm---th.html
Best,
A
