I've just been browsing the net for buying domain names. I stumbled across a site: www.new.net and noticed they were selling domains with extensions I have never heard of, with everything from .free .club .inc .law .auction .xxx etc Heaps of short domains are available with these extensions, to you reckon there would be any resale on them? Can they even be transferred? How would search engines treat a domain extension like this? Any help would be much appreciated, Thanks
Dont even think about it. I once registered there and lost my money. Read everything carefully. I think their software plugin is required by anyone who is wanting to view that site. Which means if you register xyzabc.inc then you yourself will have to install that plugin first otherwise the site wont open. That was what i understood. You can check again. Regards, GAUHAR K.
Okay, thanks for the help. I have just been doing some reading on Wikipedia and they are not a Top Level Domain anyway.
Yes, definately stay away from this crowd in my opinion. Thier domain extensions are proprietary and not normal TLDs. I know that many anti-malware scanners will identify thier software as something that needs to be removed.
Soon, ICANN will be opening up the domain extension system so that any company can own whatever TLD they like, so you'll be seeing .anything all over the place! But until they've released it, stay away from them ones
I'm afraid I don't know how soon at the moment, and this information is very well known in the domaining world. It came about in June sometime and you can easily find loads of information on it by simply typing in something like 'ICANN Domain Shake Up' into Google. I find BBC News (UK) to be very reliable so here is a link to their article on it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7468855.stm This news basically means that anyone they want could apply to have (for example) .gingerapple or .anythingyouwantreally and then they could allow people to pay them for a domain with that extension. However, to set up one of these new names you would have to prove to ICANN that you have a valid reason for wanting that particular extension (I could argue I wanted .gingerapple because it was my forum name on many sites and part of my e-mail address, basically I coined that name) and you would need in excess of a few $100k. Not easy.
Thanks for the info Ginger ! I dont think the .coms and others would hold much importance/value after that ? (Well atleast the other tlds) Regards, GAUHAR K.
I would disagree. dot com is synonymous with "the internet" and is typed by MANY people habitually. This is the essence of typin traffic. People will just type in whatever word they're looking for followed by .com. It's natural.
I agree with Deef-Thp here. As soon as I heard this a month or two ago I began rapid posting on specialised domain name forums asking what everyone thought the repercussions would be, and everyone thought that it would only increase the value of .coms as they are, and always will be, the hottest extension in domains!