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No matter what happens .com will always be King.

• skeletonjelly 14y ago
  There's going to be a point where it'll be impossible for new businesses to choose a domain name that isn't abstracted so far away from their business name as all the domains are taken. I'm curious as to the what the system will be like in 5 years. Surely .com can't be king forever?
  • thristian 14y ago
    We already thought of this problem - we said "hey, there'll be different companies with the same name; we should introduce different namespaces so that, say, a company in Australia and a company in Austria don't clash. Turns out, end-users want a flat namespace, so everybody has to buy names in that namespace. Until ICANN opens up the top-level domain space to arbitrary registrations (instead of the current 'you have to spend $150,000 and run a registrar' deal), that flat namespace is probably going to be .com.
    • bigiain 14y ago
      End-users only want that while it's easiest and it works. I'd argue that both of those conditions are no longer unambiguously true.