When .web becomes available to public how picked over will it be?

[sky]

Who announces when it happens? How many registrars are likely to be selling? Does anyone know the initial pricing structure?

 

[sashas]

Don't know about the .web too muc, but unless and until they market themselves as being a direct opponent to .com, I doubt it'll do much.

 

[Charley]

Don't know about the .web too muc, but unless and until they market themselves as being a direct opponent to .com, I doubt it'll do much.

IMO, .web will be a competitor to other extensions other than the .com, I would also presume that this will be the second most wanted extension once it releases.

 

[RickM]

IMO, .web will be a competitor to other extensions other than the .com, I would also presume that this will be the second most wanted extension once it releases.

That would depend upon their approach to promoting it. If they make a mess of it (ahem, .eu) then it wont be an extension that is considered an alternative to .com

 

[AdoptableDomains]

All new registries will likely not have the free-for-all that .biz and .info had in their sunrise. The .mobi registry saved the top names for auction to bidders, and I forsee other new ones taking that approach. There will also likely be the TM sunrise period where TM claimants also try legitimately or illegitimately to claim good generic domains. I think any new TLD will be picked over to some extent, but there will always be some gems to be found.

 

[RickM]

IMO they would be foolish to launch in the same way .INFO did...giving away the domains for free promotes cheapness and its given .INFO a reputation for being a budget extension...which isn't a good thing.

If they launch in the .MOBI style they should do well...especially if they use the same pricing stucture as .COM/.NET

 

[sashas]

IMO, there is room for only one new extension right now: a direct competitor to .com.

Unless they specifically price and promote their extension as opposite to .com, they will go nowhere.

Think about it: .info was for 'information', .biz for 'business' and .mobi for 'mobile'.
So naturally, .web is for 'website', which positions it directly across .com. Unless they change the name from .web to something else, they're going nowhere with this extension

 

[stscac]

.web ??? A long time coming

-Steve

 

[AdoptableDomains]

IMO, there is room for only one new extension right now: a direct competitor to .com.

Unless they specifically price and promote their extension as opposite to .com, they will go nowhere.

Think about it: .info was for 'information', .biz for 'business' and .mobi for 'mobile'.
So naturally, .web is for 'website', which positions it directly across .com. Unless they change the name from .web to something else, they're going nowhere with this extension

If a .web does come about, I think it actually has a better chance than most of the others you mention. "com" stands for "commercial", but has come to be accepted as the default, commercial or not. Biz is too much like what com was meant to be and narrows it to business. Info is generic, and not thought of strongly as commercial. I can see .web becoming pretty much equal with .net and .info, but still doesn't have a chance at unseating .com. The only problem is see with .web is that it would sort of emphasize web pages and not other Internet uses such as email, VOIP, VPN, or other future uses that use domain names.

 

[randomo]

What ever happened to that outfit that was trying to sell not-quite-legit .web domains about 5 (or more) years ago? I dropped a little money with them to line up some one-word terms, figuring it was a small investment and I could cash out big if they ever reached their goal of bringing .web to the legit market. Guess that didn't happen.

 

[stscac]

What ever happened to that outfit that was trying to sell not-quite-legit .web domains about 5 (or more) years ago? I dropped a little money with them to line up some one-word terms, figuring it was a small investment and I could cash out big if they ever reached their goal of bringing .web to the legit market. Guess that didn't happen.

New.Net??? :p

-Steve

 

[sashas]

there was a post by Frank Schilling about how Google, if marketed properly, could launch its own TLD (Frank suggested .Goog) and upstage .com. There is the scope for another TLD competing against .com, which has had a monopoly pretty much since the interent came to be. .goog or .go (.go sounds so much cooler) or .web, it can be done

 

[AdoptableDomains]

What ever happened to that outfit that was trying to sell not-quite-legit .web domains about 5 (or more) years ago?

If you look here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root, you'll see there have been several who have tried to run .web as an alt root. Affilias submitted *(but never ran) .web and .info in 2000, but was awarded .info. Probably because there were lots of .web in alt root dns servers that might not resolve correctly. :imho:

I think this is the latest and most persistent:
http://www.webtld.com/

.web was not one of new.net's alt root domains.

There are also a few that will resolve any tld you want for those willing to use their dns servers.

 

[randomo]

I think this is the latest and most persistent:
http://www.webtld.com/

Yes, I think it was those guys.

Wonder if I still have the rights to the ones I reg'd back in 2000? (I don't recall it being only a one-year reg period.)

 

[gpmgroup]

there was a post by Frank Schilling about how Google, if marketed properly, could launch its own TLD (Frank suggested .Goog) and upstage .com. There is the scope for another TLD competing against .com, which has had a monopoly pretty much since the interent came to be. .goog or .go (.go sounds so much cooler) or .web, it can be done

I think FS was wrong on this ... The question is why would businesses waht to be tied / brand to another company over which they have no control?

mystore.msn or mystore.goog is a massive risk even more so than mystore@aol or mystore@gmail and their current [email protected] & [email protected] etc.

Bit like the future for compuserve and the aol walled garden

 

[npcomplete]

Yes, I think it was those guys.

Wonder if I still have the rights to the ones I reg'd back in 2000? (I don't recall it being only a one-year reg period.)

You were right about the registrations through webtld.com run by Image Online Design. Here is from the archive:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000817073625/www.webtld.com/Information/

"As this registry is not currently active in the Internet's default root servers, the time period for paid registrations will not begin until entry into the root servers has occured. In other words, a registration for one year will not expire until one year after the registry is entered into the root servers." (from above link, in the oct 17, 2000 archive). This was always the understanding, both written and verbally (telephone).

I have an axfr list of the .web database, back when people allowed open axfr on their dns. In the download I have, there are 21,913 domains that were registered through Image Online Design, with the listed sales price of $35... and the terms (above) do state that your first year will only kick in AFTER the .web is put in the root. It would appear that if you had the .web during that time... and if Image Online Design is associated or involved in any way with running it, then you may want to contact them.

p.s., I have other information.

Marc

 

[uncz]

.info doesn't have a nice strategy. Everyone thinks about them as something cheap

 

[RickM]

.info doesn't have a nice strategy. Everyone thinks about them as something cheap

Ditto...its been portrayed by Afilias as a cheap domain....giving it a poor rep as a "poor mans" domain extension.