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**SDX** · 05-22-2008, 12:14 AM

Will .COM always be the king of the internet?
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Will domains have a DOT anything in the future?

**bludex** · 05-22-2008, 07:46 AM

I'd say it will depend on the reputation of the United States, it's currency and economy in the global environment of the future.

I hope that English will be the future "One-World" language. It has factually established itself as such by the success of the internet and namely the dotcoms. We can't deny the basic character of the internet as permeator of freedom and wealth, and I want to hold on to dotcoms as the symbol of that.

We domainers are the innovators at the top of the chain and it's decisive what we are thinking and making of it, setting signals.

There have been several occasions in history where especially ISPs have been key to preventing freedoms to be taken away. Think of the plans that MSN was supposed to become "the internet" a decade ago...

Will the right to anonymity (of access to the internet) and privacy (by means of encryption) always remain? Or will there be a fascist movement and and suddenly all TCPA-modules already existing in most PC become mandatory activated?

What's the real basis of the success of the internet?

Keep innovating and don't forget what you have to give thanks to!

**acronym007** · 05-22-2008, 08:25 AM

It has nothing to do with the United States alone. The biggest and most important reason .com is king is because of it's position in history and money spent on promoting this one TLD.

When the first 3 gTLD's were introduced .com was the only domain to be used for profit making companies. All over the world, but mainly in the US, companies spent billions of dollars adverting the .com brand as if .com it is the internet, as if it to say there is no other website but a .com website. At this point in history, we, the consumers, have been trained to use the .com. Ebay, Amazon, Monster, Google, even DNF, is .com. While you and I in here might realize the potential for other TLD's the consumer has to be trained to use other TLD's they're not just going to type in another TLD, the majority are not computer savy and they will think it will not work any other way. So, until other TLD's have billions spent on advertising they will never overcome the .com as the internet, as a brand.

Think about it, really, how can any other tld compete? Ask a non-computer relative about a website. It will be a .com.

Again, this isn't just my opinion but the current state of affairs. I would like to see other TLD's succeed and broaden the base but getting my mom to type something other .com fries her circuit, she doesn't get it. LOL

Cheers,

Paul

**bludex** · 05-22-2008, 10:45 AM

Yes. With .com your are "IN".

**hugegrowth** · 05-22-2008, 10:58 AM

I was looking at Fortune magazine yesterday with the top 500 companies in the states. Along with financial info, they listed the website of each company. I didn't see one url that wasn't a .com

So far no one has come up with a way to navigate the internet without using a dot "something". Imagine you built a website and had to tell someone how to get there, or advertise it. How else could you do it without a .com, .net, dot something? Similar to phone numbers, which have worked for decades and not been replaced. People will always use the simplest way, so it's hard to imagine domains being replaced. Domains are the filing system of the internet.

**sashas** · 05-22-2008, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by hugegrowth

I was looking at Fortune magazine yesterday with the top 500 companies in the states. Along with financial info, they listed the website of each company. I didn't see one url that wasn't a .com

So far no one has come up with a way to navigate the internet without using a dot "something". Imagine you built a website and had to tell someone how to get there, or advertise it. How else could you do it without a .com, .net, dot something? Similar to phone numbers, which have worked for decades and not been replaced. People will always use the simplest way, so it's hard to imagine domains being replaced. Domains are the filing system of the internet.

a 3d internet "road map" of sorts? I find it hard to believe that the current model of accessing the internet will remain the same in 20 years

**DNBA** · 05-22-2008, 02:12 PM

yeah logically you would think .net would of been the trump TLD cause its an abbreviation in internet.

Lately ive been wondering if, we americans would buy or take the .us name more seriously if it were .usa

**QuantumBeam** · 05-22-2008, 02:36 PM

Will .COM always be the king of the internet?

**xc06** · 05-22-2008, 02:38 PM

nice read of this thread. dot com will be a king for long time. However, Is there any chance that a total revolution makes domain in a complete different way?
I think so..

**bludex** · 05-22-2008, 02:57 PM

Originally Posted by alldrop-com

yeah logically you would think .net would of been the trump TLD cause its an abbreviation in internet.

Lately ive been wondering if, we americans would buy or take the .us name more seriously if it were .usa

There's always a trade-off between shortness and descriptiveness.
.usa would be more descriptive and - with increasing information overflow - be more recognizable as being something new and relevant by the users' brains.

I could also imagine training the next billions of new internet users of the emerging economies like India and China by something like .in , standing for for international and internet, for a renewed wave of grassroots growing, giving equal chances to the small again, a new sympathy factor.

You can see the Indian government giving free internet for all by 2009:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/28/i...ernet-by-2009/

I think that's giving a good representation of this paradigm, is physically existing and has the backing of a big emerging economy with a gigantic pool of brain assets.

**acronym007** · 05-22-2008, 02:59 PM

Originally Posted by xc06

nice read of this thread. dot com will be a king for long time. However, Is there any chance that a total revolution makes domain in a complete different way?
I think so..

When will the use of physical property change? Will property in NY become any less valuable in 20 years? Maybe it's more valuable in other places but NY will always have some things other don't as will .com. Prime internet real estate will continue to rise in value for some time. There might be changes in way we use things but we still a space or a place to build these things. Google could die tomorrow but still people will need a way to access a website via an easy to remember format, aka the Domain Name.

I think domains will remain very similar for a very long time to come, domains are only in their infancy IMO.

**SDX** · 05-22-2008, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by acronym007

I think domains will remain very similar for a very long time to come, domains are only in their infancy IMO.

Let's hope...for all of our sakes.

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Great info guys.

**bludex** · 05-22-2008, 07:02 PM

.com is like .txt for file extensions, you can read every file as it's source code, and so is .com the mother of the www-economy namespace. For special applications more and more convenient filetypes are being issued, and so are TLD and ccTLD. Right?