opinion Which suffix do you think will be the next .COM and why ？

[jim h]

After decades of development,.Com domain name has been basically saturated, and there is no good investment opportunity in the existing market like before.So..

Which suffix do you think will be the next .com and why ？（Or close to its height）
Or
Do you think the domain name system will be replaced gradually ？By what?（Within ten years）

Welcome to leave your opinion.

 

[frank-germany]

After decades of development,.Com domain name has been basically saturated, and there is no good investment opportunity in the existing market like before.

I really love it when a "discussion" is started with a wrong preamble
stating something which is not true
and then start a manipulative discussion

you should think of a career as a politician instead of a domainer career

 

[NameBuyer.com]

A lot of people told me that some of them have no customers. I think it's a market problem. The demand for domain names is shrinking. After all, there are not so many new start-ups every year, and the demand is limited. The trading between middlemen is also an important part of the domain name market. Therefore, it is less likely that the domain name system will be replaced in a short time. After all, the number of existing users is huge.

The number of startups in general have increased over the years up until 2019. The chart below shows around 250,000 business startups per quarter in the US. So right around 1,000,000 per year. That is big.

There will always be a percentage of the population that are business owners.

In March, at the start of the pandemic, I had my highest sales month in my 17 years of domain investing at over $40k. Once things get back on track, I don't see anything as declining.

 

[CraigD]

There are going to be 1400+ extensions gulp.

OMG!

This from Wikipedia page on GTLDs (2011):

Criticism
Following the vote to expand gTLDs, many trade associations and large companies, led by the Association of National Advertisers, formed the Coalition for Responsible Internet Domain Oversight. The coalition opposes the expansion of gTLDs, citing "its deeply flawed justification, excessive cost and harm to brand owners." In a statement to the US Congress on December 9, 2011, National Restaurant Association vice president Scott DeFife stated, "Even beyond the financial toll the gTLD program will exact on millions of U.S. businesses, the Association believes that ICANN’s program will confuse consumers by spreading Internet searches across hundreds or even thousands of new top-level domains."

Another opponent is Esther Dyson, the founding chairperson of ICANN, who wrote that the expansion "will create jobs [for lawyers, marketers and others] but little extra value."

 

[BaileyUK]

I think if you can get the wording right for its applicable application. And you really do need the mindset of a developer to run with this one. Then dot App still has a lot of legs. You are going to have to keep your eyes on the mobile world and strictly run with the domains/words where there are multiple competing applications. The mindset that will be required is to focus on the USERS outcome experience in the wording and of course very short.

No I don't own any .App extensions myself.
Buyer beware though, nothing is going to replace .com as the be-all in the foreseeable future

 

[DomainRex]

Hard to replace the .com

Probably won’t ever happen, but I do agree that the .vr domain has a lot of potential especially with everything being in Virtual Reality in the future.

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

hmmm interesting question.

I've always been partial to the idea that someone should buy a cheap island somewhere in third world country.

Call it Victoria Royal or Rainbow or Raven or even Virtual Reality.

And then apply for .vr domain extension

plenty of companies using the "suffix" of VR to make .vr valuable.

 

[CraigD]

I think we have more than enough extensions already.

I strongly believe that .com will remain the commercial king, followed by its gTLD siblings Org, Net, Edu, Gov, Mil, and country codes.
People trust the extensions they know.
There are some newer extensions that I just won't click on for various 'trust' reasons.

 

[BaileyUK]

I've always thought .web might be the next big thing, but they would need to price it competitively ($5/y?) and refrain from the domainer-registry approach (no "registry premium" domains). Then and only then I think it will be a strong contender.

It's a shame because I agree .web would have been a preferential extension to .com had it been around at the beginning. The problem is that it doesn't denote anything different that .com doesn't already encompass today . I appreciate ,com was intended to denote Commercial at the beginning. But I can't see .web having a great standing in the future - that would almost be akin to reinventing the proverbial wheel

 

[Jimmysun]

hmmm interesting question.

I've always been partial to the idea that someone should buy a cheap island somewhere in third world country.

Call it Victoria Royal or Rainbow or Raven or even Virtual Reality.

And then apply for .vr domain extension

plenty of companies using the "suffix" of VR to make .vr valuable.

I had an exactly same idea in mind but due to it must be a country tld so I think it’s lack of international image. Another reason is that China restrict using other cctld as legit domain name except.co so it’s gonna lose 1.3 billion potential end users.

so I tend to invest .xyz it’s 3D axes in animation engines and I think it make sense for vr.

 

[lock]

There never will be but there will be reasons to buy other extensions whether geo targeted industry targeted or exact type ins and reuse of popular keywords.

What i think we will see is a boom in dot US when people realize they want to keep some of the money in house rather than trying to just own the internet. Dot com will always have some power over any extension.

 

[lock]

I think we have more than enough extensions already.

I strongly believe that .com will remain the commercial king, followed by its gTLD siblings.
People trust the extensions they know.
There are some newer extensions that I just won't click on for various 'trust' reasons.

There are going to be 1400+ extensions gulp.

 

[lock]

Well why these gTLDs actually work better put them to use.

 

[mAd MaX]

.xyz

 

[pb]

None of the currently available TLDs can replace .com, because they are either bad, or too expensive, or ccTLDs. The "replacement" needs to be stable, with no restrictions, cheap and totally generic. I've always thought .web might be the next big thing, but they would need to price it competitively ($5/y?) and refrain from the domainer-registry approach (no "registry premium" domains). Then and only then I think it will be a strong contender.

 

[BrandAptly.com]

hmmm interesting question.

I've always been partial to the idea that someone should buy a cheap island somewhere in third world country.

Call it Victoria Royal or Rainbow or Raven or even Virtual Reality.

And then apply for .vr domain extension

plenty of companies using the "suffix" of VR to make .vr valuable.

Does it have to take the purchase of an entire island or the renaming of a country to apply for the .VR extension? What are the application prerequisites?

 

[pb]

Does it have to take the purchase of an entire island or the renaming of a country to apply for the .VR extension? What are the application prerequisites?

double-character TLDs are reserved for countries and territories.

 

[jmcc]

After decades of development,.Com domain name has been basically saturated, and there is no good investment opportunity in the existing market like before.

It has not. The problem is that most people don't realise that about 43% of new .COM registrations do no renew at their first renewal. The blended renewal rate is around 72%. If the .COM was saturated then there would be no deletions.

At the moment, .COM is struggling in many countries where there is a strong ccTLD and the new registrations volume is shifting to the ccTLDs. The main reason that .COM is so strong is not the fact that it is the best global gTLD but rather that it is the de facto ccTLD for the USA. The .US ccTLD is the de jure (official) ccTLD for the USA. The .US ccTLD is now operated by Godaddy. The .US under Neustar mouldered in competition with the .COM in the US market. With a new registry operation, and the potential for marketing on Godaddy, things might change.

Regards...jmcc

 

[CraigD]

Yes first time I have heard of it also.
From the ICAAN link I posted it appears this extension was first proposed in 2012? and I can find nothing to confirm it went ahead, so I'm not sure how the OP considers that "ecom is expected to replace .com the instant .ecom becomes available" - that's a really really really big call in my opinion.
Nothing NEW replaces something tried and true, instantly.

It appears that the application for .ecom (Application ID: 1-2016-12429) was last modified in 2013, and has since been withdrawn.
Interestingly, if you read through the legal documents, the proposal for .ecom was challenged at one point for being too similar to .shop, but that objection was dismissed.

 

[King]

I don't think that will ever happen as long as .com keeps simple decent pricing & no premium reg priced domains. .com is kind of instinct for consumers at this point.

By the way it looks like there is no claim on .vr as far as I know.

There was a petition on creating it lol: https://www.change.org/p/icann-boar...-off-second-level-vr-domain-names-for-charity

I wonder why it hasn't been claimed yet...

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Definitely .cyou

It has just the right combination of meaninglessness and forgetablity to really give .COM a run for its money.

Not...

I don't believe that there ever will be a new king unless there's a need for it. It might not be the Internet as we know it, but there will need to be some kind of unforseen evolution to knock it off the top spot.

Some people thought that would be mobile apps, but it didn't happen.

 

[Jimmysun]

If you are talking about next .com it should be using it in general and worldwide international purpose, I would say is .xyz, of course .com seemed the most branding choice due to its solid means Commercial , Company or Community, etc.
The reason I say is .xyz because naturally it has rebellious potentials in looking it’s very bold and easily stand out of other extensions, I believe especially designers like it, the other clue is when I walk down the streets young people are looking more and more personalized and ego in their dressing, it’s obvious the whole world is getting neutral the color getting purple and the homos are rising up, also women leaders and presidents coming out.
2. In natural I think most American don’t like words X and Y and Z (except tech industries) Because I see a clue that there are merely has those words in states, Texas is only one has X for example.
3. There are many countries are developing out of US such as Africa, Asia, Middle Asia, South Asia etc. they are new internet populations in next 10years, they don’t have the same emotion that how the way American see .com, it’s like you knew “A-li-A-Do” in Japanese means “Thank you” but you don’t have any feeling per se, instead they like words X,Y,Z etc.
4. The world is going more digital including digital currencies, VR, 3D, 5G, if next 10 years people consider their 2nd world is in virtual reality, I think .xyz will become next trends in domain world, I think it’s reasonable because .xyz the first adoption functioning as digital wallet, think of that if you play games in VR and you earn BTC and ETH in the game and cash out in Exchange, that would be definitely the 2nd real world and I definitely think it will happen in the future, right now the 2D games with crypto currency in online page is just a transitional period.
5. Any domains want to mimic .com I think will fail eventually I don’t see why we need .co, just like I said before it’s fake Rolex, fake Rolex has good market in the world definitely.
6. People say no matter what .xyz is meaningless it’s nothing whatsoever angrily, that the other reason I investing it, it’s too obvious why they hate it, because their heart can feel it.
Above are the reasons I invest it not pig headed it.

 

[NameBuyer.com]

What matters is the delta and it is only 20-30 thousand × 4 per year per chart. And that is not just startups in tech meaning, but also mom and pop shops, landscapers etc who often work without a website or rely on an awful domain for business.

I'm not following. Why would the delta matter if the number of new businesses keep rising?

I only posted that chart because the OP was saying "The demand for domain names is shrinking. After all, there are not so many new start-ups every year, and the demand is limited.". The chart shows they are not declining in any way whatsoever. There is a limited population here, businesses can't double each year (also shown in the chart).

That chart is only births and deaths. We aren't selling to businesses going under anyway, right? If an old business drops a name, the incoming one still likely needs to buy their name. I realize many businesses don't have one, but even my landscaper has one.

 

[Daniel Owens]

.ecom but like all domains will die. The use of domains is already lowering each month as apps replace them. For example doordash is an app very few go to the actual domain to order food. Facebook is a .com yet 99% of its users use an app. Uber very few use its .com just use the app for rides. Domains are the video rental stores of America thus domains too shall be very few and eventually none. Even the internet will die and be replaced by something faster and even more app friendly. We are seeing both the end of domains and the end of the Internet

 

[jim h]

Even though an app essentially need a domain name like house numbers, internet users and domain need will increase, but the bad news is the domain’s value will decrease a lot, Finally the winner is registries and registrars, the brokers and investors will be diminishing, famous companies still will prefer to have a good domain.

The value of domain names is indeed declining, due to the emergence of apps and many new TLDs.

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

Hard to replace the .com

Probably won’t ever happen, but I do agree that the .vr domain has a lot of potential especially when everything will be in Virtual Reality in the future.

I mean just look at .to and .io

Also, I remember watching a tv show once where some native fishing village were processing clams and shells for food and just dumping them in the middle of the ocean that at some point there was so many shells that it created an island.

Don't know what the rules are as far as getting a status of your own island country but this would work. lol

Victoria Royale (.VR)