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with all due respect, I say bananas. "good" domain names are not terribly difficult to come by. Good branding, can be though. Hulu, Google, Yahoo, Comcast are
by cleverjake 14y ago
with all due respect, I say bananas.
"good" domain names are not terribly difficult to come by. Good branding, can be though. Hulu, Google, Yahoo, Comcast are all fairly meaningless words, until they were branded as such. It may be true that for someone that can't afford the buy a ~$100-$5000 domain from a broker may have to look/think harder to find a suitable domain, it is not THAT hard.
Country codes showed us that average users don't want other TLDs, unless they are domain hacks and can be spoken easily (.ly, .it, etc). They almost always prefer the .com, unless they can get a translated version using their own country code (google.tld, etc).
This is purely to raise money for ICANN. I understand they need money, and I understand they can do this, it just feels...bleh.
- jack-r-abbit 14y agoand if the good ones are taken in the current TLDs, adding new TLDs to register them is only going to cause someone heart ache.
- circa 14y agoYeah I agree. Its not that hard and with tools like http://domai.nr http://domai.nr its easy!
- nopinsight 14y agoIf additional good domain names, even if it's few in number, become available at a lower cost, it will only help innovation, startups, and experimental projects. Apart from aesthetics, what's your reason for feeling 'bleh'?
- jack-r-abbit 14y agoBut it is not "additional" domain names... it is the same domain names with a different TLD. How does making facebook.lol, ycombinator.doc or whateverisalreadytaken.google help anyone but the entity that controls the TLD?
- paolomaffei 14y agoTo be honest Italians prefer .it to .com, and I wouldn't be surprised if other countries did the same (It seems to be the case here in the UK, too). Also hulu.com even before meaning something would have retailed for the sum that you mentioned.
- treitnauer 14y ago> Country codes showed us that average users don't want other TLDs, unless they are domain hacks and can be spoken easily (.ly, .it, etc). They almost always prefer the .com Wrong and a typical US-centric view... Germany's preferred TLD is .DE and has >15 mio registrations, .UK > 10 mio just to name the two largest ones. Generally speaking the easier (and cheaper) to register a ccTLD the more wide-spread it is in a country.
- cleverjake 14y ago"They almost always prefer the .com, unless they can get a translated version using their own country code (google.tld, etc)." ccTLDs are never easier to register the gTLDs. Ever. Every single one of them require more than a .com/.net. Also, registrations != user preference.