“We are in the process of opening up new real estate, new land, and people will go out and claim parts of that land and use it for various reasons they have,” Dr Paul Twomey, chief executive of ICANN, told the BBC. "It's a massive increase in the geography of the real estate of the internet."

eBay is a current contender to use its name, aiming to purchase the domain .ebay, while cities such as New York and Berlin have been campaigning for their own domains as well.




http://www.itpro.co.uk/603930/icann-...n-name-changes

I wonder how they plan to control these new TLDs? I mean would ebay then become the registry, or would one general org handle that role for ALL the new generic TLDs? Where would registrars stand in scheme of things?

I guess these things are what have yet to be hammered out. But if this is what happens, I can't imagine any of the current domain business models (domain business meaning anyone who makes their money off domain names) staying the same.

I wonder if they will allow .web this time and let all the old .web registrations stand? Hope so since I have almost 100 of them from years ago which I have assumed until now was wasted money.

dot-web makes a lot of sense and could compete nicely with com net org

more tld's, more dilution, more potential buyers for the .com's as the users of those alt tld's grow. sounds like good news for .com holders to me.

Originally posted by safesys
more tld's, more dilution, more potential buyers for the .com's as the users of those alt tld's grow. sounds like good news for .com holders to me.

Thats what came to my mind when I read this news..........more confusion, better for .com for traffic as well as value.

Even if companies get to use words with no dots at all, it will still be too confusing for people. Say Washington Mutual (big bank in the US) gets to use wm. Wm.com is owned to Waste Management (abother large biz in the US). Washington Mutual then has to say in the ads "go to wm on the web, but make sure and don't put .com at the end". If they put bank.wm in ads, people will go to bankwm.com or bank.wm.com.

It's just easier to put coke.com in ads than to say go to coke on the web; I doubt it will change over the next 5-10 years, and probably not even in several decades.

I think more choice always has an effect on everything else including .com (though probably fairly minimal), would imagine this is worst for the alt extensions, .info, .biz, .us, .mobi etc.

If there are lots of extensions it will help the dominant extensions. For two reasons

1) Only a small percentge of people are pioneers most people simply prefer the safety of following others. Each new extension makes it harder for extensions to gain critical mass because the pioneers are spread more thinly.

2) Secondly is psychology when many people are presented with too much choice they make no decission at all because they are scared of making the wrong decission.

I think there are a lot of people out there who think if they pony up the ICANN fee they can print a pile of cash. After the first couple domainers are going to get fedup with selling to each other and corporate America is going to get mightly fed up with ICANN

It seems to me this is nothing more than a way to cash in on defensive registrations and provide more lawyer bait.

BTW, I got dibs on .goggle

I think even mass the expected mass domainer speculation of new tlds would be challenged if the tld rollout was too great as there needs to be some focus for the domainer hype machine.

It seems to me this is nothing more than a way to cash in on defensive registrations and provide more lawyer bait.

BTW, I got dibs on .goggle

the article reads that this is still a tld application process with a cost attached and an approval process per tld

dot BS

I don't think beyond a handful of companies there will be any real interest in .company extensions

Its likely .microsoft .google .ebay will be pipedreams for those who would like to fill Registry Reistrar & ICANNs coffers.

Whats the point in paying an ICANN fee + aregistry fee + a registrar fee for a subdomain of your own domain? Plus the .com part is so well branded that people will add it anyway

I can see some big companies trying it because they like closed systems which tie in their users in the name/excuse of safety. I can see some thinking what better way to keep their brand alive

For example get sellers to brand on theirsitename.ebay but it's a bit like the walled garden approach of the telecom's early mobile attempts and the even earlier aol / compuserve approach.

I would be surprised if this is something that ICANN would be likely to encourage as it is esentially a non generative process and as such will almost certainly be far the worst approach for the successful development of the namespace as a whole.

.ocm would be cool though

It's a quantum leap backwards...
com.ebay
com.google

It just doesn't fly.

Even if you are directed to go to collectables.ebay
most people will do collectables.ebay.com

Ebay it doesn't exist ebay.com does.(Realistically)
why confuse them even more?
Not decent marketing person will recomend this.

I think IDN TLDs would have a huge effect:

http://www.domainstate.com/showthrea...threadid=59393

Thus allowing totally new ".COM space" for each and every langauge, and end having to enter URLs using 2 languages ...