Opening A Big Can of Dinosaurs
A Shout out to TheDomains.com for the heads-up on this absurdity
ahhh ha ha.
Someone had said “will .com become the dinosaurs?….”
How about “Will television become the dinosaurs”
Will bread become the dinosaurs?
Will underwear become the dinosaurs?
Will 800#s become the dinosaurs?
Will malls and shopping centers become the dinosaurs?
Here’s my take on why I’m sticking to .com’s (some .orgs too) primarily:
.com had a chance to grow and florish without the mad trampling of rush registrations.
Personal and business endusers all had a chance to register a .com domain name and build a website on it.
This is before domainers really started to seriously invest and speculate in domain names.
The roots of .com are deep and healthy.
.com grew and grew without much interruption. It became the standard worldwide.
It is still growing.
The vast majority of aftermarket sales for good domain names are still .com.
The problem I’m noticing with the new TLD extensions, are the fact that they are killed before they really take root. Since no ones wants to be left behind on the next “coming of the .com” gold rush, we go crazy mad registering every keyword variation in existence.
You know what happens?
There is no natural growth. Real endusers discover all the general keywords are gone. The new TLDs don’t grow any roots.
Of course the registrars will shout “success!” when a half a million of these new extensions get registered.
Endusers soon find these new domains for sale with prices that match .coms.
They’ll say, “Hell no, I might as well pay for the .com!”
So now there’s the real chicken and egg problem for the new TLD extensions coming out.
Since it will be hard for any natural growth to take hold. It just won’t.
Just imagine hundreds of TLDs coming out. One after another in rapid successions.
Lets pretend here we’re making a pot of soup. The water is the internet. The meat in the soup is .com.
The .net and .orgs are the carrots and potatos. With “I think” .TV being onions.
It makes, well for a nice pot of soup.
Now pretend every single spice on your rack are the new TLDs.
Take all of ‘em and dump it in your pot of soup.
Well now, it makes for a nice pot of crap.
The only thing you’ll still recognize are the meats, carrots, potatos and some onions.
Do you understand where I’m driving at?
The question really is, will we become the dinosaurs? Eventually.
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LOL, well after reading that, I’m heading to the cheese Cake factory, I’m starving. Hopefully, I don’t choke on the .TV, err onions. Nice article.
@Uzoma – You getting soup? lol
well i hear what you are saying and it makes sense. However, we live in an era of increasingly disruptive technologies and innovation so EVERYTHING is fair game. The only thing certain in life is CHANGE.
@adinfinite – ” The only thing certain in life is CHANGE.”
Absolutely, I didn’t mean to imply that nothing will EVER change
Hell, I might give up bread and stop wearing my underwear!
Nahh, too disruptive.
Interesting soup analogy…. I’d suggest that the soup is a cauldron sized crock pot that’s been plugged in for 30 + years with few new ingredients.
There are many who speculate on what the impacts will be from new TLDs, but it might be worth coming to San Francisco in a couple weeks to the .nxt conference to get some facts.
http://dot-nxt.com
I’m trying to imagine what 30 year old, continuous cooking, soup would taste like….
Thanks for the helpful link! I left it up for others to get more info on the conference.