The end of .com ? Yes ? No ?

[dominator]

.Com is the King.

in the USA

in Germany, for example, .de is the king

anyway, it's a very bad idea

very confusing for users

there are already enough TLDs

[hugegrowth]

what a mess if they create the possibility for unlimited domain extensions.

[GAMEFINEST]

I want everyone to go after those extensions, Thanks

[Drop Business]

You wouldnt be able to just type www.coke and land at Coca Cola website would u ?

Why not? www.com works doesn't it?

www.coke would be a domain of tld .coke.
It would be no different from accessing the forum via dnforum.com instead of www.dnforum.com.

Surely it has massive resale value if you can get a good tld and charge people for domains.

DB

[500,000]

Bank of America owns Loans.com...
Chase Bank buys the TLD .Loans
Lawyers see green
I see lots of problems for the ones that own (loans).com, .net .org

Who knows, maybe you can buy a domain name from a new registrar called Domain.Loans

BOA.Loans

my2.cents

[Drop Business]

DCG posted a better link describing the situation:

http://www.telecom.paper.nl/news/art...?id=220005&nr=

DB

[lordbyroniv]

This portends great confusion

[gemsergio]

Well I think with time it might actually kill the .com, its innovative I think its just great one day with 7 USD you wil be able to register your own extension.
jhon.smith or is it better jhonsmith.com I take jhon.smith anyday or pictures.jhonsmith
if smith is already taken.
domain.forum
sex.forum
etc...
fly.italy
free.sex
etc...
anyway user are typing less and less the url in the browser so search engine might play a lot bigger role to decide what will win.

[dnol]

.com will always be a king , I can't imagine myself to type www.google without .com

googl.e

[H2FC]

I'm still waiting to read how anyone thinks a $39,000 dot whatever can compete with a $10 dot com.

[Leading Names]

I can see the big search engines going for this and offering them for free to their customers/users, for use with their products e.g. Google Apps. .Go/.Ya anyone?

- Rob

[Banned: theinvestor]

I'm still waiting to read how anyone thinks a $39,000 dot whatever can compete with a $10 dot com.

Was this number in the article? Also...don't forget...it will be nearly impossible to get any .com in the future, let alone for $10.

[Banned: SonnyBurnett]

I'm still waiting to read how anyone thinks a $39,000 dot whatever can compete with a $10 dot com.

Exactly.

[chording]

I'm still waiting to read how anyone thinks a $39,000 dot whatever can compete with a $10 dot com.

The ramifications of this move are unprecedented. One thing for sure, the purported high entry fee to this game is not fixated anyway, so wouldn't you think ICANN will do whatever it takes to maximize its market penetration? They will finetune it, by lowering or raising the entry fee, to achieve the highest possible ROI, laughing all the way to the bank.

[Rubber Duck]

Why not? www.com works doesn't it?

No.

[davidthornton]

No.

www.com works for me in a browser. Always has. Takes me to the web site of www.com

[ebuzconsultant]

Com is King... No other TLD will manage to replace com

[acegoet]

absolutly will make an impact. but not for years. People are creatures of habbit and there will be years of retraining first.

Weak .com's will need to be developed to keep any value.

[David G]

....You wouldnt be able to just type www.coke and land at Coca Cola website would u ?

Actually, based on my understanding of it and my experience with dns the opposite appears to be true where yes you can typein www.coke and go to the website. The www could represent a domain in front of the coke tld. Obviously the coke tld would contriol the possible domains including www which would simply mean having a domain named www.

In fact, it is even possible you can omit the www alltogether and simply type just plain Coke and it could resolve, by using wildcard dns server setup. That means it may be possible for you to typein coke with nothing in front or behind and I believe it may work, again depending on the server setup! How cool would that be as far as popularity goes!

If lots of big companies (plus mid-size firms, maybe even some smalll ones too, including possibly large domainers) buy their own tld based on their brand name it could easily mark a decline in value to domains using other extensions and seriously impact dot-com's popularity and dominance, and also likely result in a significant decline in traffic going to .com and other extensions.

[whitebark]

Good points Trader.

Where are the real users for all these new extensions to come? The vast majority of the Internet now is consumed by parked pages, spam pages, minisites and other lessor websites/domains. More extensions will just mean more clutter. That would make the search engines king and only top-quality/well seo'd websites will be able to rise through the clutter.

Some companies existing now may move to these, others may stick with what they have. A domainer/registry will get .cool, .fun, etc and it will be just another extension with 90% of registered domains parked/spamming/minisites etc. Millions more of these - millions upon millions - just what the 'net needs..