New TLDs - thoughts?

[wlanboy]

Call me an ole fart, but .com, .net and .org is what I still and always will consider as domains.

Don't forget the country level domains.

I know a lot of people that like to use .se .co.uk or .dk.

 

[BuyCPanel-Kevin]

I think instead of promoting new TLD's we should be promoting people to become domain name registrars, it took me forever to figure out how to do it and when I found out it turns out it costs a ton of money to do (which I'm still not entirely clear on why it costs so much)

 

[Royal]

I think instead of promoting new TLD's we should be promoting people to become domain name registrars, it took me forever to figure out how to do it and when I found out it turns out it costs a ton of money to do (which I'm still not entirely clear on why it costs so much)

well how much does it cost million's? i'm interested in knowing opcorn:

 

[peterw]

Numbers of registrations are bad.

.guru               37k

.photography  21k

.today               8k

.technology       7k

Older ones

.pro               113k

.tel                147k

.name           159k

.asia             362k

.mobi         1,058k

.us             1,814k

.biz            2,656k

.info           5,709k

 

[BeastVM_Aaron]

I think they will be confusing minds in the future.. New 5 TLD wont make problem but hundreds of will.

 

[24/7/365]

I don't know if the TLDs will take off but I certainly hope not.

With the explosion of TLDs it's going to be very hard for the less technical to know if a website is legitimate or not.

As it stands, there are people losing tens of millions on phishing scams.

The only people that stand to benefit from all this are the scammers and domain registrars.

For the rest of us, it's confusion, complication and a needless cycle of name registration to fend off squatters and cyber pests.

 

[vampireJ]

real.estate

new.ventures

new.holdings

sex.*

sexy.singles

some cool domains to have. but obviously no longer available fast