New gTLD Applied-For Strings

Post by zokier » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 3:07 PM UTC

AndrewDucker wrote: post #97

twelvechairs wrote: post #87

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Possibly. But say I'm starting a video-sharing website - I'm at a big competitive disadvantage when my customers need to type and remember an extra domain-name level compared to my competitors (who own '.video', '.movie', '.youtube', etc. while i might own '.bobsvideo.fail').

Except that, as discussed above, "youtube" by itself is not a valid host name. It would have to be "mysite.youtube" Still easier than you having "mysite.bobsvideo.fail" I agree, but frankly most people don't even find sites via the domain name. They'll google "Bobs Video" and see what comes up.

Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 3:12 PM UTC

dmaz wrote: post #13

seiji wrote: post #3

Google wants: .ads, .and, .android, .app, .are, .baby, .blog, .boo, .book, .buy, .cal, .car (no .cdr?), .channel, .chrome, .cloud, .corp (great way to snoop on poorly configured intranets), .cpa, .dad, .day, .dclk, .dds (New: Google Dentist!), .dev, .diy, .docs, .dog, .dot, .drive, .earth, .eat, .esq, .est, .family, .film, .fly, .foo, .free, .fun, .fyi, .game, .gbiz, .gle, .gmail, .gmbh (really?), .goo, .goog, .googl…

Skimming through the page, Amazon is going for a landgrab too with 76 gTLDs. Interesting to see how the major web player prioritized this. Microsoft went for 11 highly relevant gTLDs and Facebook for none.

Post by scoot » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 3:13 PM UTC

user24 wrote: post #108

goatforce5 wrote: post #99

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> Ironically anyone vain enough to reserve ". " is surely ALSO going to keep a death grip on " .com" Monter (the job people) and Monster (the expensive audio product people) are both going for .monster How do they resolve that? Toss a coin? Auction it?

It's ICANN! It'll be an auction.

Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 3:15 PM UTC

jerf wrote: post #101

tucson wrote: post #77

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> this will do nothing to improve the size of the name space It opens new options for "local" addresses: biketour.berlin biketour.paris antics.london etc wether this will stick is another story.

biketour.berlin.ge biketour.paris.fr antics.london.uk Nope, there's room for all of those things in the current scheme. Might I add that none of those cities are the only city to have that name, and that the country part carries real information?

Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 3:21 PM UTC

scoot wrote: post #125

user24 wrote: post #108

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It's ICANN! It'll be an auction.

I Can Auction Another Network Name? (Sorry, completely valueless - couldn't resist! :)