.com maybe will be even more valuable , now when you write .... "machine" will be redirected to machine.com in your browser not .... "alpha.machine" or maybe this will be changed too Those domains will have no value for most people , will be like europe.bz ? useless because europe.com will be recognized as nr 1 , or .eu not .europe or site.europeanunion
I really wonder what's going to happen if the grid replaces the internet in the not to distant future, and all of this becomes a huge waste of money
For those who are inclinded to profit from confusion this is a "phishing expedition" in the making. Can you imagine the level of uncertainty generated by adding unlimited new gTLDs? Jane Doe, Web User: "Was that .cc, .ccd, .crcd, .crdcrd, .credcard, .creditcard or .goofy where I signed up for . . ?" More gTLDs means more income flowing to ICANN and the growing need for gTLD regulation leading to the creation of more jobs . . for family and friends? I wonder how strong their anti-nepotism rules are? I wonder how anyone gets a job application for working for ICANN? I'd love the travel benefits, since there's a lot of travel involved with such a global enterprise. More gTLDs likely means a growing travel budget. "Yo! ICANN! People are barely using .Biz and not too many are using .Info or .Net, so where are you really going with this?" Byzantine. Bizarre. .Biz as usual? Sorry. A bit of a rant. This just strikes me as nuts, nutz, nutts, nutsus, nudz, nutds, nsts.
There will be a few of these that will do well, however I think a lot of people or companies with deep pockets will jump into this without understanding much and lose millions. There really is no need for these new TLDs, ICANN will make good money at first but then it will probably realize what a mistake it has made. This will only lead to more confusion and easier for fraud to take place. A good and rather big company is always going to want a .com domain so this whole thing is not really going to make companies and people think differently about domains.
Its quite unfair really, this can be good in a way but not for me...im ok putting $10 on a .com domain but I dont have $50,000 these are pretty much aimed at businesses who can afford it and will probably buy it, but it will cause major confusion for a while.
Yes, a new extension of domain has beginning open for registration in China. That is .me domains. But it is bit expensive of enarly 100 USD.
silly idea, but it may work for certain extensions, such as .xxx this would make the internet safer for people who didnt want to stumble upon adult sites, im sure.
Well...this is the dumbest thing that I have heard this week. Can you imagine the confusion on email addresses ?
The costs that have been cited are for a registry operator to apply to operate a new TLD. The actual cost for a registrant ie. how much a domain in a new TLD will cost will depend on the registry operator. There will be a number of applicants that stand a good chance of getting their registries off the ground, but it will not lead to random rich people setting up vanity domain extensions, as each application will still need to be vetted by ICANN and the various stakeholder / interest groups that get involved with such things
I work for a big company and we are discussing the possibilities of purchasing one of these gtlds. Now the problem is our current website is wxyz.com (this is just an example). We have several products that are more popular than our corporate name. If someone buys our tradename/mark of the product name, will we have grounds to bar them from using them? It is almost decided that we are going to buy: ".wxyz" and promote these larger known products as "product.wxyz" but should we buy ".product" too? For instance, proctor and gamble own charmin. If p&g only bought .pg whats to stop people from buying .charmin?