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In the long term I think domain names are going to become less important and will gradually fall in value. People will start to use a portal like Google or Bin
by SimonPStevens 16y ago
In the long term I think domain names are going to become less important and will gradually fall in value.
People will start to use a portal like Google or Bing to access the web. Rather than typing a domain name, many non-tech people I know just search for the company name.
Coupled with ICANNs plans to open gTLD registration up I think we will eventually see the focus move away from .com domains and the prices will start to fall. As the .com space becomes increasingly crowded and a wider range of gTLDs become available it will become more and more acceptable to exist in other TLDs so there will be less competition for .com domains.
- arkitaip 16y agoI think Facebook and other social networks will have a better chance of creating flourishing portals than Google or Bing because they already have a working combo of people+data+interaction. The Google approach to portals would just be very AOL-ish. You are 100% right about people googling services and companies, though. Hell, we know for a fact that people google Google or Yahoo or even Bing... As long as you don't pick a offensive name, most people don't seem to mind about the domain name or tld.