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.

 

[jim h]

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.

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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.

Thank you for your convincing data

 

[jim h]

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.

Thank you for sharing your opinion

 

[jim h]

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."

This news is really strange.

 

[jim h]

.xyz

The number of. Xyw has really grown rapidly in recent years

 

[jim h]

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

well,thank you,I just want to listen to everyone's ideas. English is not my native language. I may have some problems in expression.

 

[jim h]

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

Your point is very representative.

 

[jim h]

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.

Yes. Com is irreplaceable at present

 

[jim h]

I am not commenting about the ccTLDs but .io seems to be pretty strong lately.

yes,.io is really growing fast.

 

[jim h]

If there is Louis Vuitton there must be eg. Prada, Gucci, Polo around(different design different styles and different clients), much same in the domain world.(different extensions different meaning and different areas)
From 1946-1964 there was baby boom that’s made today real estate flourish, in other hand, in past 20 years was internet boom that will make next 50 years domain industry flourish.

Your metaphor is very vivid.

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

You're right. Things may change gradually

 

[jim h]

I would like to share my view on. IO domain name. IO will attract more virtual currency investors with the progress of blockchain technology. Although this may be an artificial hype, the increase in transaction price is obvious.

 

[jim h]

up

 

[jim h]

Which suffix do you think will be the next .com and why ？（Or close to its height）
ecom is expected to replace .com the instant .ecom becomes available.
Do you think the domain name system will be replaced gradually ？By what?（Within ten years）In less than 10 years domains will be replaced by apps.

Yes.
Apps, especially those ecotype apps that are similar to integrated websites, do pose a great threat to the way of searching websites by inputting characters in browsers.

 

[jim h]

Daniel,
I'm not sure how an address can be replaced with an app.
It would still need users to be identified to a registration system or email or something tangible.
Could you explain please?

PS: I've never heard of .ecom.
Edit:
OK found it: https://icannwiki.org/.ecom

Still, I disagee.

.ecom is a proposed TLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program. The applicant is Ecommerce Inc.[1]

I heard it for the first time. Some kind of interesting

 

[jim h]

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.

Yes，you're right

 

[jim h]

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...

Support you, today's reading shows that the number of. Com is far more than the sum of other suffixes, which is the reality.

 

[jim h]

OP's premise is a little off. There will be no extension to be the next .com as it has already held up over the test of time and is universal and in the mass psyche, while other extensions only have niche interest. Also, I don't believe it's valid to say there is no good investment opportunity in .com.

I like seeing the optimism for VR taking over as the next platform, but actually, I think .XR would make a lot more sense than .VR. I anticipate both will eventually come to be in the next 10 - 20 years as WebXR becomes widely used. But from a recent experiment, I can tell you all that people aren't ready for WebXR quite yet.

It is a direction that can be observed continuously

 

[jim h]

OP's premise is a little off. There will be no extension to be the next .com as it has already held up over the test of time and is universal and in the mass psyche, while other extensions only have niche interest. Also, I don't believe it's valid to say there is no good investment opportunity in .com.

I like seeing the optimism for VR taking over as the next platform, but actually, I think .XR would make a lot more sense than .VR. I anticipate both will eventually come to be in the next 10 - 20 years as WebXR becomes widely used. But from a recent experiment, I can tell you all that people aren't ready for WebXR quite yet.

Webxris a new thing, we need to continue to observe.

 

[jim h]

.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

You're right. Maybe a lot of people refuse to admit it, but that's what's going on.

 

[Mytz.com]

Hard to replace the .com

 

[jim h]

Hard to replace the .com

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