Thread: Domain Names Technology

Woho, in 2009 everyone will be able to register their own domain name extension.

Instead of .com you could register .anything, like .google, .nowakfilip, .webtalkforums.

But the prices will be starting from millions of dollars from those domain name extensions.

I also heard about this (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/te...6ef&ei=5087%0A)

What does this mean for all us webmasters? Is it good or bad?

This is such a massive change I cannot even imagine what effects this will have.

Originally Posted by NowakFilip

But the prices will be starting from millions of dollars from those domain name extensions.

/me starts saving the pennies mg:

Yeah, that's true. And also theses extensions may be great coz as benjamin had mentioned here, they can be used as search.yourname or music.yourname or something like that. That will be a great idea indeed...

But costing in millions, that's too much...! I wonder who would buy it other than companies like Google, Yahoo and other reputed ones...!

Originally Posted by zeus

But costing in millions, that's too much...! I wonder who would buy it other than companies like Google, Yahoo and other reputed ones...!

What about country/city names, e.g:

.australia
.canada
.japan

etc.......

.sydney
.chicago
.tokyo

etc.......

It will be interesting to see what other ideas people will have.

Originally Posted by GameOver

What about country/city names, e.g:

.australia
.canada
.japan

etc.......

.sydney
.chicago
.tokyo

etc.......

It will be interesting to see what other ideas people will have.

A group of people have been after .nyc for a while. Well that is what BBC news said last night

I would love to see any extension you could think of, but why on earth is it so expensive? that is ridiculous. what is the purpose of limiting us? what benefits are there by confining us

Country wise names will also be useful. Like, for the government, it'll be like, gov.India or gov.Australia and suchways... Also, they can be used for many such words like sports, finance, education and all such name...!

Originally Posted by zeus

Country wise names will also be useful. Like, for the government, it'll be like, gov.India or gov.Australia and suchways... Also, they can be used for many such words like sports, finance, education and all such name...!

Yeah but I don't get what is wrong with gov.au and gov.in. It is the same thing. It's even shorter..

Originally Posted by benjaminp

Yeah but I don't get what is wrong with gov.au and gov.in. It is the same thing. It's even shorter..

Yeah, I agree. I think ICANN is just doing this for $$$.

It will create more confusion in IMO

Originally Posted by WikicyloN

I would love to see any extension you could think of, but why on earth is it so expensive? that is ridiculous. what is the purpose of limiting us? what benefits are there by confining us

They will probably cost different amounts. Dot casino, poker, creditcards etc. will probably be on the big bucks tier, while other less searched for keywords will probably be on a cheaper tier.

Originally Posted by GameOver

Yeah, I agree. I think ICANN is just doing this for $$$.

Methinks so too.

The only upside of this is I can think of is making the general public more aware of the other 200 odd extensions that exist right now.

Dot unicorns will probably be in the highest tier. Just think:
//wikiloves.unicorns/

Originally Posted by i13

It will create more confusion in IMO

Yeah, it will be so much confusion that people won't be able to remember anymore domain names.

Most of the time right now you have .com and then on each domain anme it could be .anything.

You could remember the beginnign of the domain __________. but then you won't remember the end of the domain name .__________

So, that will be really confusing.

Not starting from millions...its starting from 100k...

Hurley4540 added 0 Minutes and 37 Seconds later...

It will also make .com more popular.

That would be wonderful!

At first, I thought it was a dumb idea, however after being sarcastic on Namepros and made a comment, I think this could be a good idea.

Take for example the many possibilities of .CITY's...like:

.boston

Now this could be very good because there can be:

vist.boston
food.boston
drinks.boston
airport.boston
clubs.boston

ETC, this could really help narrow and make searches easier....this could make the 100k(That is what the rumored price is, not millions, not 10k!) price for your own tld a reasonable one.

HOWEVER, I only see potential in .CITY's ... not some other ones that could come of this. IMO .citys and a few others will only be decently popular.

Threads merged.

Originally Posted by benjaminp

Yeah but I don't get what is wrong with gov.au and gov.in. It is the same thing. It's even shorter..

Nothing wrong, but you can gave the full form instead of the short form that's it..!

And ya I agree with GO... they are just doing for the sake of money...

Originally Posted by Hurley4540

HOWEVER, I only see potential in .CITY's ... not some other ones that could come of this. IMO .citys and a few others will only be decently popular.

What about brandnames?

cars.ford
trucks.ford

locations.mcdonalds
menu.mcdonalds

diet.mountaindew
amp.mountaindew
codered.mountaindew

Originally Posted by Red Hot Mama

What about brandnames?

Bad idea.

Originally Posted by Red Hot Mama

cars.ford
trucks.ford

locations.mcdonalds
menu.mcdonalds

diet.mountaindew
amp.mountaindew
codered.mountaindew

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Originally Posted by i13

It will create more confusion in IMO

why would it create confusion? do you now just randomly type in urls and see if they work? or do you go to a specific site because you know its address/got it from a search engine? google will still be able to tell you were to get the big boob pics, and if a company has a good name you'll still remember it. I remember zombo.com because it is catchy, there is no reason I wouldn't be able to remember zombo.amusement if I thought that was catchy also.

Originally Posted by Halobitt

Bad idea.



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Not if those companies are the ones buying them....

Originally Posted by WikicyloN

why would it create confusion? do you now just randomly type in urls and see if they work? or do you go to a specific site because you know its address/got it from a search engine? google will still be able to tell you were to get the big boob pics, and if a company has a good name you'll still remember it. I remember zombo.com because it is catchy, there is no reason I wouldn't be able to remember zombo.amusement if I thought that was catchy also.

bigboob.pics? :sroll:

Originally Posted by WikicyloN

I remember zombo.com because it is catchy,

Not to forget the zombiephobia you have (zombophobia?) :twisted:

Originally Posted by Red Hot Mama

Not if those companies are the ones buying them....

True dat.

Well I found a site that does sell these sorts of names with .shop, .inc, .family, .xxx, .club, .travel, law, club, tch, med, ltd, sport, mp3, so is this a ripoff? They are selling them.

Originally Posted by Rhiannon

Well I found a site that does sell these sorts of names with .shop, .inc, .family, .xxx, .club, .travel, law, club, tch, med, ltd, sport, mp3, so is this a ripoff? They are selling them.

That's rubbish thought up by a company called new.net
You need to install a browser add-on to visit these domains. What it does is take your url (domain.xxx) and add on .new.net at the end... so, your actual url is domain.xxx.new.net

Originally Posted by joseph

That's rubbish thought up by a company called new.net
You need to install a browser add-on to visit these domains. What it does is take your url (domain.xxx) and add on .new.net at the end... so, your actual url is domain.xxx.new.net

Yes but you have to read all their adverts carefully to find this out. I didnt know whether to put up that address or not.

I don't blame you for being confused... back in '99 or so, I remember seeing a bumper sticker for Yahoo.shop
They suckered Y... not bad for them.