Comments on: What Does ICANN’s ‘Yes’ Vote Mean to You? Not Much.

By: Brands-and-Jingles

Brands-and-Jingles — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:13:42 +0000

With 250,000 .me domains registered in less than a year, this is indeed a great success.

More to come.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:24:52 +0000

As the online business grows, we need new lands, else it will be too tight. New domains are welcome, but only those that ring the bells in the consumers ears will make it through.
Watch number of .me sites doubling every second week. Now, they took over .asia. Buy.its.me, pizza4.me, remortgage.me are impossible to forget. Buyitsme.com, pizza4me.net and remortgageme.biz are just not the same.
Brands are ruling this consumers, not vice versa.

By: What are .me Domain Names Actually Worth?

What are .me Domain Names Actually Worth? — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:31:32 +0000

[...] more time I spend in the domain speculation world, the more I tend to agree with Andrew that non-.com’s don’t have that much value outside of 2-3 letter and 1-2 high-value [...]

By: Yosemite Sam I AM

Yosemite Sam I AM — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:57:45 +0000

I predict a net result of zero — just as we saw with the addition of .BIZ, .MODI and .TRAVEL and numerous others. All were expected to be huge and to alleviate the overcrowded .COM arena. All fizzled and went nowhere. Oh, and that is without a complete dilution occurring at the same time.

The net needs room to grow. Its current naming structure is ill-thought out and was inadequate from day one. Never in Jon Postel’s wildest dreams did he expect a usage trend as we are now experiencing. Just think about how the net has grown since his death in 1998. Out of necessity, ICANN has attempted to provide that desperately needed room by broadening the playing field; and, now, westward expansion may (just may) be available to those seeking a presence.

This will not, however, stop .COMs from continuing to act as oceanfront real estate just as construction in Arizona does nothing to decrease the value of oceanfront homes.

Location, location, location.

.CC was heavily promoted by NetSol, .TV by Directnic and .MOBI by GoDaddy. No one wanted them. Same with non-English language character domains which were heavily promoted by NetSol in 1999. Those who invested in them saw little return, if any.

Why does the world insist on .COM? Because that’s what the Fortune 500 all have. I don’t see that changing anytime soon. Why does that matter? Well, they constitute 8 out of 10 commercials we see on a daily basis; and, as a result, we tv watchin’ folk get subliminally brainwashed into associating .COM with a quality website.

Go ahead and ask a random room full of people to name their single favorite website. I’ll give you $1,000,000 for every non-.Com you hear. Oh, don’t worry for me, I won’t be handing over any money.

Same scenario with New.Net which has been offering the vanity names for years.

Only time will tell, but I’m not ready to give up on .COM yet.

Disclaimer: The above is my opinion only and not necessarily that of the station’s owners, management or advertisers. True, I saw this referenced at http://www.SubliminalMessages.Com and my eyes were screaming bloody murder at the time, but I nevertheless feel strongly that .COM will be the de facto “King of the Domains” for a long time to come.

By: SEMW.biz » Blog Archive » ICANN Approves Broad Expansion of Top Level Domains (TLDs)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:13:04 +0000

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:14:03 +0000

@ LIam – the way most browser work now, if you just typed in http://www.microsoft it would automatically go to http://www.microsoft.com.

By: LIam

LIam — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:35:33 +0000

I think you will see http://www.microsoft or would just typeing microsoft work?