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> because consumers were expected to just type in, literally, "petstore.com" and then shop there What a fascinating prediction. Its interesting that these days
by Polylactic_acid 7y ago
> because consumers were expected to just type in, literally, "petstore.com" and then shop there
What a fascinating prediction. Its interesting that these days there is almost nothing useful on these "default" domain names and no user would ever type them in without knowing what was on it. Maybe the landgrab actually caused this since "petstore.com" was always owned by someone hoping to sell it later instead of using it for a legitimate website.
- crazypython 7y agoIt came true for thesaurus.com– onelook.com/thesaurus is much better but few people have heard of it.
- Polylactic_acid 7y agoThey have better SEO. Whenever you search, thats the first one that comes up. Maybe the URL got it there, its hard to tell.
- pergadad 7y agoIm sure there is still use in those and massive benefits on owning a true one-word domain name. Think of the number of people that still pay mo they fees to AOL in the US. In a global context there are millions who don't really know how the internet works - from all the new arrivals (usvisa.com, health.in, ...) to many seniors (recipes.com, taxes.com) to in particular the 8-12 year olds arriving each year in the internet with little conceptual background (boobs.com, homework.com). But to be clear: moviefone/phone.com is obviously not one of those valuable domains, or at least will quickly sizzle out as the name is not really intuitive and you have to know about it to type it in (equivalent would be movies.com, cinema.com, etc).