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Originally Posted by Lidador
I think we will have a clear sample of the impact this will have comparing August dnjornal's domain sales report with previous months!
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well you know people have always panicked in uncertain times, that's for sure.
and for sure, nobody knows how this will all pan out.
Personally I feel that if in a future world virtually anyone can register a new TLD without issue, then can you imagine the chaos it would cause. TLDs being run by untrusted people with no technical background, just 'cos they fancied a TLD or bought one for their Mrs, or it seemed like a good idea after a night down the pub.
And who will be running these 2-bit TLDs, 2-bit registries
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I predict ICANN are storing up a massive amount of trouble for themselves if they think the idea that Internet democracy should spread to one-person, one-TLD.
Who knows what the Net will be like in 20 years? What I do know is I would rather own great keywords in .com than great keywords in .shite or .shat. And I trust and believe Google will agree with me.
And the point about being more choices for buyers, of course that is true. But there already has been a big expansion of choice. If you wanted to start a big cars site you could go to .net or .biz or .bz or .ws or .cc or .tv. But in the end, everybody only wants the .com. Check sales figures if you don't believe me.
There are plenty of great keyword domains available in .ws - why does nobody buy and sell them? We had the same crap at IDNF last year when somebody realized you could get almost any IDN in .ws. Loads of people went crazy registering the top keywords because of the keyword value. And the same people are now repenting in leisure and quietly (or publicly) dumping these very same names. Why? Because they have finally realized the so-called uniqueness in domains is actually the marriage of a great keyword with a top TLD. Either-or just doesn't cut it in this business.
Sure, if you think the end of the domainer's world is nigh, carry on, I'll take your .coms off you
