Comments on: E-Commerce Times gTLD Article Makes Little Sense

By: Radman

Radman — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:58:04 +0000

I really liked the way they came off

By: Domain Offerings

Domain Offerings — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:21:21 +0000

I think they should take all tld’s away except for one. It seems to me that it would be easier to combine words than to try and remember which websites with the same name but different tld’s was visited before. There are a lot of combinations of 3 or 4 word names for one tld to be sufficient for all webs.

By: Duane

Duane — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:03:39 +0000

@ Andrew

I find these new gTLD’S a pretty good idea!

They would be very fortunate. Mentioning the problem of what would you put in front of the .dell or .ibm is easy to answer.

I think ICANN is just trying to make it easier for Companies to expand to different planets.

Users could then know with what location of .dell or .ibm they are communicating. There could be mars.dell or venus.dell or moon.ibm

I just find ICANN is a bit early with this opportunity. lol

By: Kevin Ohashi

Kevin Ohashi — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:51:26 +0000

What a god awful piece of writing. And sorry to whoever paid $150 for anything this guy wrote. Most expensive kindling ever purchased perhaps.

@Larry: I really don’t think it’s that easy to retrain 2-3 generations of internet users. They still struggle with subdomains, folders, www. (it’s NOT required!), etc. You advertise services.ibm, they type services.ibm.com. Why not just learn to manage 1 domain properly rather than waste money on a whole new extension? Just doesn’t make sense.

By: jp

jp — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:02:12 +0000

The first quote kinda sounds like tech talk in broken english IHMO

By: Larry

Larry — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:32:34 +0000

These new gTLDs seem pretty intuitive to me. If I’m Dell, I’m gonna own .dell and use sales.dell, support.dell, or say locations.dell, laptops.dell, servers.dell etc etc. That also makes sense to me as a user, and the logic will apply to other top brands that will also do this.

For say Dell it focuses your name, you catch more traffic and this opens up many many sub-sites that become more easily navigated, increasing the namespace – instead of everything running through your main.com, you are now the vertical. As said though, very different considerations apply where generic or geo gTLDs.

By: Jothan Frakes

Jothan Frakes — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:15:29 +0000

I have been taking a hybernation from domain name media since last Thursday but I saw this guy’s article mentioned and I am relieved to read in the comments that folks could see it at face value.

I’ll explain my basis for my opinion of his opinion, but candidly, I have a filter in my email inbox that sends anything even mentioning his name into the garbage.

Why: I wasted 150 dollars to buy Mr. Javed’s first book “Domain Wars”.

Paying this much for a book sets one’s expectations fairly high. I cannot put into words my deep disappointment with what it turned out to be.

The book contained 8 pages of the market-speak about branding followed by 245 pages which were in essence a database dump of the IANA records for each of the ccTLDs.

Branding expert… certainly. He “branded” (aka tricked) me out of 150 bucks by setting an expectation of what could be expected.

Unfortunately, the book was something someone could have put together in a cyber cafe in a few hours.

He may be a branding guru (or not), but the statistics and research claimed in most of the articles that get picked up refer back to his own research service called ABC Namebank as the source.

If you look at ABC Namebank it looks like the best website that 1995 had to offer.

Anyone who wants to debate new TLDs and their place in the world with Mr. Javed is welcome to it.

On the bigger topic of new TLDs, I’ll be at DomainFest next week and would be interested to hear different perspectives on this from within our community.