The Potential For Tld Wars

[Commerce]

No, it is not Armageddon, but I just got a spam from a .Info marketing the .Host TLD from Australia. You have to wonder if the registries themselves are going to get frustrated by their early entries in the market being painted negative by spamming affiliates. The .CC registry had great promise as an alternate to .Com back in the 1990s and started gaining some traction on what was then a still quite young commercial Internet... then spammers came out of the woodwork and did some pretty serious harm to that TLD's reputation. Obviously, those days are long past, but given the sheer volume of TLDs coming out of the woodwork these days, it will be interesting to see who gets painted as the problem TLDs of today.