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I think there might be more pressure on .COM (nobody cares about .net and .org only if you're anything non-profity - it's still the 800 lb gorilla). A lot of TL
by ohashi 6y ago
I think there might be more pressure on .COM (nobody cares about .net and .org only if you're anything non-profity - it's still the 800 lb gorilla). A lot of TLDs, people don't even know or recognize. There's questionable billing policies/pricing policies. A lot of it feels like a gold rush from registry side, not to actually benefit consumers. Premium domains from registry, get that nice one word domain you want - but instead of a one time fee, pay it to us yearly to the registry. At least with a .COM the fee is low post acquisition.
- ryan29 6y ago> There's questionable billing policies/pricing policies. I blame ICANN. A few years ago Uniregistry changed pricing for a bunch of TLDs including existing registrants and ICANN did nothing. All of the other registries routinely reclassify domains as premium when they drop and it's really short sighted IMO. Domains would make an incredible, pseudo-anonymous, collision free web identity system, but many of the registries (AFAIK) are owned by private equity and can't see past the next quarterly earnings report. It's really sad. The new domains could have been an opportunity to expand the market by convincing regular people to buy domains for email, identity, etc., but instead we got a bunch of short sighted price gouging :-(