DotGay Domains- Soon To Be A Reality?

[fojames]

Came across this piece of news, thot I should pass it on

Some in the gay community are pushing for the dotgay extension [.gay],

Is it feasible?

SOURCES:
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-13819.html
http://www.metroweekly.com/gauge/las...be-offere.html

[cleverlyslick]

these extensions are getting out of hand

[myst woman]

i think dotgay has major problems.

not onyl does it parse web traffic by supposed sexual orientiation, but the world at large is barely comfortable with the reality.

And gays aren't stupid, they know that a tld marketed to "them" is just as exploitive (in price if not intention) as any other product or service.

What's next, .black or .latina?

What troubles me about dotgay is that the market is ambiguous. Can you convince gay people or gay business promoters they need the clicks dotgay brings? If emphasis is put towards establishing a separate layer of internet for gays, doesn't that limit them from the misison of inclusion in the whole fabric of society they have been trying for for decades/centuries/aeons?

[Gerry]

What matters is on the backend (no pun intended).

Any domain extension being proposed must have a solid business plan and funding.

Gay has one advantage of being able to brand itself to the market it is wanting to reach - gay, lesbian, bi, tranny, etc. That market would be quite significant in size and demographics.

The good part about this domain is it defines a specific market and interest. Advertisers would be able to adjust their ads to that market...gay cruises, gay travel deals, same sex couple legal and other needs...and so on.

[Acro]

Awesome news. Finally one would be able to register "is.gay" and launch an email service
Maybe we could also have .fat, .ass, .lol and .hot (with a subdomain .not.hot)

Jokes aside, ICANN opened the floodgates with this "great" idea of generic TLDs.

[DNBA]

i think we should pull together and get .dnforum since everyone else is wasting there money why shouldnt we?

[Acro]

Imagine the .gay Registry promoting the TLD like TelNic did. Two guys on a train trying to catch the attention of ...another guy. One scribbles his phone on a scrap of paper, the other one writes "ben.gay" on the window with latte. The guy outside the train ends up entering bengay.com in his iPhone

[ftaylor]

Ok, I want to see .christian, .muslim, .jew, .hindu, .buddhist, .white, .black, .straight..... etc.

[katherine]

It's not the extensions that are most ridiculous but the people who will be bidding on them.

[Gerry]

Ok, I want to see .christian, .muslim, .jew, .hindu, .buddhist, .white, .black, .straight..... etc.

um, maybe not too far off...

[whitebark]

It's not the extensions that are most ridiculous but the people who will be bidding on them.

Amen to that.

[Tenkk]

would all these extensions, if approved, increase the value of dot coms?

[Doc]

would all these extensions, if approved, increase the value of dot coms?

don't think so..rather can have a detrimental effect

[fojames]

@Acro

That's a nice one, the idea of the .gay commercial, You almost broke my ribs LOL!!!!

Still LAughing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tristanperry]

This is getting silly now. Generic TLDs is a very bad idea, but this is even worse.

If you have .gay, then surely (since that's classifying visitors in some way) we should have

.notgaybutopentotheideaofit
.notgaybutnotagainstpeoplebeinggay
.straight
.black
.white
.halfcast
.christian
.notchristian
.notchristianbutnotagainstpeoplewhoarechristian
.muslim
.notmuslim
..... etc

Just seems really silly, but I guess the PC society we live in is happy to divide people, hence this TLD isn't too out-of-touch.

[bwhhisc]

Jokes aside, ICANN opened the floodgates with this "great" idea of generic TLDs.

ICANN already had their hands full with the immenent launch of dozens of IDN.IDN extensions across the full spectrum of major languages, not to mention all of the international politics that come with that. These generic tld's certainly could have waited instead of getting piled into the heap and slowing up the IDN project which has been a decade intro the process of implementation.

[Gerry]

These generic tld's certainly could have waited instead of getting piled into the heap and slowing up the IDN project which has been a decade intro the process of implementation.

That outrage is actually why the IDN's were fast tracked and approved before the release of the generic TLD's.

But yes, there should have been a faster time frame than this to get the IDN's going.

[noelius]

I think intead of promoting unlimited TLDs, ICANN should reverse it, and have less domains, because it's impossible for a brand to buy all their related domains in each extension...

[ftaylor]

Do you think major brands like microsoft and google would be in a rush to get their .gay domains?

[tristanperry]

Do you think major brands like microsoft and google would be in a rush to get their .gay domains?

That's a good point; I'd imagine so.

Depending on the cost it may be a good idea to get our name in that TLD too.