Will Dot.Com's Become The Dinosaurs Of The Internet?

[the_poet]

During the Internet bubble, you were an automatic millionaire if you owned a one-word domain name that matched your business (example: Car.com, Hotel.com and Sex.com etc). Now that all the good ones are taken, it seems to be more than popular to snatch up a domain name with a crazy extension.

Source: BusinessInsider.com

 

[MeanerDomainer]

There's nothing to ponder. Voice recognition by itself CANNOT and WILL NOT replace .com.

Things that could replace .com (and all other or most extensions) include:

1) Apps
2) Truly intelligent search (whether accessed via keyboard, voice, or, don't laugh, thought reader does not matter at all.)

 

[dotker]

3) .CO & other CCTLD pretending to be GTLD. :P

*ducks for cover

 

[pcp]

We need a few more forum, I admit. lot of times, I read hings and go, "This doesn't belong here" but after looking. I can't find a forum that truly befits the thread. I think I'll talk to the other mods about that

I have to disagree with this. I think there are too many different forums, resulting in half of them being dead. The Google Adsense sub-forum of PPC/CPC is an example of this: unnecessary IMO. And how the hell does the SEO/search engine forum get so few posts?

I think that if anything, some of the separate forums could be merged. Just my opinion.

 

[Domainate.com]

You've all been titleraped. Just another example of someone making a ridiculous article just to draw people in with the ridiculous title.

 

[DnEbook]

dinosaur bones are worth heaps to collectors

 

[Archangel]

You are so dead-on.

You've all been titleraped. Just another example of someone making a ridiculous article just to draw people in with the ridiculous title.

 

[DU]

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[DnEbook]

The more intelligent and evolved people killed off the dinosaur... same is happening again imho.

..yes, it's a joke

But yes. By 2020 all extensions will be rendered useless by the modernization and obliteration of the common internet. The change is going to happen. Embrace it.

You probably think a.m radio is soon to be gone because of f.m and digital changes

How long with tv be with us may i ask ?

:bah:

 

[DU]

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[DnEbook]

i just think that everything has a title and domains/websites will always have a title and the other thing the money invested in this industry up to date, i think change would be resented by many ?

point about radio was , it exists and has not really changed from day one

 

[carob]

i just think that everything has a title and domains/websites will always have a title and the other thing the money invested in this industry up to date, i think change would be resented by many ?

Domains are at best virtual properties and if they become less important or are not used at all domainers will lose what they paid for them and no one else will care, except registrars.

Domains have resale value due to demand and scarcity, at least of short keyword domains in popular extensions.

Have you noticed big companies quoting addresses for themselves like facebook.com/mycompany ?

Have you notice companies marketing themselves by telling you what to put into Google to find them?

Isn't it possible that voice activated search queries will be longer and more natural than typed ones, so "Findmethenearestcheappizzadeliverynumber".com would be a great keyword matching domain. The longer the acceptable domain name becomes, the greater the supply of saleable names and the lower the prices.

If people can navigate to what they want without domains or typing they'll be happy with that.

 

[MeanerDomainer]

dinosaur bones are worth heaps to collectors

When was the last time you bought one?

Once domains lose their role in accessing information, they are unlikely to have much value because their true value is tied to their potential to generate a revenue stream. (Of course someone will probably want to own sex.com or business.com just to have it, but will be worth a lot less than today, unlike antique cars or paintings, for example.)

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i just think that everything has a title and domains/websites will always have a title and the other thing the money invested in this industry up to date, i think change would be resented by many ?

point about radio was , it exists and has not really changed from day one

Some different scheme will eventually replace domains.

AM radio went from being the only way to access over-the-air media to a very minor and shrinking share. Same will eventually happen to domains.

There is already a whole generation of kids who go "online" but in reality never venture outside of facebook the entire time.
Domains are already irrelevant to that generation during the majority of their online activity.

 

[futuretaster]

their is one massive insurance policy against .com's ever becoming obsolete - it's called Google.
best regards

 

[MeanerDomainer]

their is one massive insurance policy against .com's ever becoming obsolete - it's called Google.
best regards

Don't be too sure. Don't you think that Google would prefer it if you had to type "cars" into Google search and you could not type "cars.com" into your address bar and skip viewing Google ads?

Facebook (and similar future) "gated communities" appear to have the potential to become a major threat to the relevance and value of domains. Such communities are also a major threat to google because Google can't play in their sandbox.
I agree with you there, hopefully Google will turn out to be an "insurance policy" by figuring out how to bust open the gates of closed communites or smoke out the members :D in favor of a more open web.
Or will Google instead choose to attempt to build or buy/consolidate a bigger gated community or strike deals to become the search provider and ad server inside gated communities?

 

[Archangel]

I highly doubt domains will EVER lose relevance. Sure, they might be accessed differently in the future (voice, mind control, whatever) but I have extreme doubts domains will ever lose out.

BTW I've never bought a dinosaur bone but ha ha, I'm not a collector.

 

[MeanerDomainer]

I highly doubt domains will EVER lose relevance. Sure, they might be accessed differently in the future (voice, mind control, whatever) but I have extreme doubts domains will ever lose out.

NOTHING lasts forever. Of course domains will eventually loose relevance. It's only a matter of time.

BTW I've never bought a dinosaur bone but ha ha, I'm not a collector.

If you own domains today you have purchased (FUTURE) dinosaur bones and you ARE a collectore of (FUTURE) dinosaur bones. And unfortunately not the kind that hold or go up in value (after domains become irrelevant).

 

[bmugford]

As long as there is an internet, and billions of people using it, domains will never become irrelevant.

Brad

 

[DU]

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[MeanerDomainer]

As long as there is an internet, and billions of people using it, domains will never become irrelevant.

Brad

I wish that it was possible to guarantee that...

But, that would be just like saying "as long as there are many people traveling, the stage coach could NEVER, EVER, EVER become irrelevant."

 

[bmugford]

I wish that it was possible to guarantee that...

But, that would be just like saying "as long as there are many people traveling, the stage coach could NEVER, EVER, EVER become irrelevant."

Are phone numbers becoming irrelevant anytime soon?

What is going to replace domains?

Brad

 

[MeanerDomainer]

Are phone numbers becoming irrelevant anytime soon?

Eventually, yes. When you think about it, having to remember or look up or call up a series of 3+7 numbers is not at all an efficient way to access someone at the other end. A more efficient method of access will replace phone numbers.
If you have to look up the number by the name of the person or the business, why not just call the person or business based on their name or description and cut off the numeric middle-man?

Are phone numbers becoming irrelevant anytime soon?

What is going to replace domains?

Some other method of access.

 

[Archangel]

Nothing lasts forever but let me ask you: What would the domain substitute be? There likely could be one but there is no chance in hell that ICANN, the registries, or investors would EVER let the domain become extinct or irrelevant. Things end, true but there are things that ride the wave until the very end. It's an unrealistic belief that the domain will become extinct beforte the Internet does. And like TV and radio (and porn despite its critics and the fur/leather industry despite PETA), the net has no signs of ever becoming obsolete and/or a relic. So yeah, the net might die one day but it's as perennial as the other things I've mentioned. And it'll likely never cease to exist at least for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time. Chances are, you great great great great grandkids will know what a domain is, even if they access it differently.

NOTHING lasts forever. Of course domains will eventually loose relevance. It's only a matter of time.



If you own domains today you have purchased (FUTURE) dinosaur bones and you ARE a collectore of (FUTURE) dinosaur bones. And unfortunately not the kind that hold or go up in value (after domains become irrelevant).

 

[DU]

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[MeanerDomainer]

Nothing lasts forever but let me ask you: What would the domain substitute be? There likely could be one but there is no chance in hell that ICANN, the registries, or investors would EVER let the domain become extinct or irrelevant. Things end, true but there are things that ride the wave until the very end. It's an unrealistic belief that the domain will become extinct beforte the Internet does. And like TV and radio (and porn despite its critics and the fur/leather industry despite PETA), the net has no signs of ever becoming obsolete and/or a relic. So yeah, the net might die one day but it's as perennial as the other things I've mentioned. And it'll likely never cease to exist at least for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time. Chances are, you great great great great grandkids will know what a domain is, even if they access it differently.

Market forces do not give a crap about how much you or anyone else has invested in domains.

 

[DU]

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