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What happened to the new TLDs? Is there not interest or not user understanding? I remember explaining them years ago to some end users who objected to the idea;
by hackuser 11y ago
What happened to the new TLDs? Is there not interest or not user understanding? I remember explaining them years ago to some end users who objected to the idea; they wanted to hold onto the familiar ".com", even though it did nothing for them.
I thought they would greatly increase supply of popular second-level domains. Also, I thought large organizations who could afford it would setup their own TLDs and leave behind registrars and the associated issues. For example, why doesn't IBM use .ibm instead of ibm.com?
But it looks like the vast majority still want only .com.
- dingaling 11y agoMany of the new TLDs are prohibitively expensive for individuals or SMEs. For example .club is nearly €6000 per year through Gandi versus €20 for a .org or €7 for .org.uk The prices may drop in future to try to stimulate demand but right now they're mostly hilarious.