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<blockquote data-quote="mole" data-source="post: 10548"><p>Good luck on your sale to this .com pany.</p><p></p><p>Yes, .com still commands a generic hold on domain addressing. It is a catchall address and therefore much more versatile than any other extension.</p><p></p><p>However, that does not necessarily suggest that .info and .biz names have any lesser value. As site names, .info, in particular, hold a lot of high ground imagery on information.</p><p></p><p>When ICANN released the 7 new gTLDs in 2000 after over 18 years of .com nothingness, it was their intention to provide the internet with more meaningful addressing of content - .info and .biz being the only real contenders with mass appeal. </p><p></p><p>The irony of it all is that it is near June 2002 today, and a huge amount of the best names for .info are still unusable. Over 50,000 of the best .biz names were unusable until about two months ago. Even today, many are being locked by STOP procedures.</p><p></p><p>To compound the problem, many of the best names are also in the hands of sophisticated speculators who grab huge chunks of namespace and deprive or discourage webmasters from using the name unless they are truely interested and buying from the aftermarket. It is difficult at this point to justify an expensive after-market purchase to management, who probably never heard of the extension before.</p><p></p><p>.info and .biz are less than a year old, with its best names trapped and unusable, while .com is an aging 18 year old extension, full of history, full of baggage. There is no reason not to believe the future will slowly migrate to more meaningful web addressing as a norm. The question, often debated in circles, is when?</p><p></p><p>And when that time comes, most of us will be like the populous whiners hoping we were smart enough to have bought .com names back in 1994.</p><p></p><p>History repeats itself. We never learn.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mole, post: 10548"] Good luck on your sale to this .com pany. Yes, .com still commands a generic hold on domain addressing. It is a catchall address and therefore much more versatile than any other extension. However, that does not necessarily suggest that .info and .biz names have any lesser value. As site names, .info, in particular, hold a lot of high ground imagery on information. When ICANN released the 7 new gTLDs in 2000 after over 18 years of .com nothingness, it was their intention to provide the internet with more meaningful addressing of content - .info and .biz being the only real contenders with mass appeal. The irony of it all is that it is near June 2002 today, and a huge amount of the best names for .info are still unusable. Over 50,000 of the best .biz names were unusable until about two months ago. Even today, many are being locked by STOP procedures. To compound the problem, many of the best names are also in the hands of sophisticated speculators who grab huge chunks of namespace and deprive or discourage webmasters from using the name unless they are truely interested and buying from the aftermarket. It is difficult at this point to justify an expensive after-market purchase to management, who probably never heard of the extension before. .info and .biz are less than a year old, with its best names trapped and unusable, while .com is an aging 18 year old extension, full of history, full of baggage. There is no reason not to believe the future will slowly migrate to more meaningful web addressing as a norm. The question, often debated in circles, is when? And when that time comes, most of us will be like the populous whiners hoping we were smart enough to have bought .com names back in 1994. History repeats itself. We never learn. [/QUOTE]
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