Comments on: Editorial: Why I’m Opposed to New Top Level Domains

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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:56:54 +0000

[...] May I wrote an editorial titled “Why I’m opposed to new top level domains”. I outlined six reasons that I didn’t like the current proposal for new top level domain [...]

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Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:40:53 +0000

[...] written before about why I’m opposed to how ICANN is releasing new top level domain names, even though I stand to benefit financially [...]

By: T

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:21:04 +0000

I think the real damage that would be done would be the crowding and confusion of search results. MyBusinessName.com, that previously would be at the top of the page when searching “My Business” could potentially be lost in a sea of MyBusinessName.whatevers

By: John Berard

John Berard — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:50:54 +0000

I suspect most of the potential confusion that might be caused by an explosion of new names will be settled by an increased reliance on search.

Ultimately, their success will require CMOs from well-known companies to change their minds.

Rather than defend the value of a single site at dot com, if they come to see the value of many sites at a TLD of their own, the new extensions will take off.

By: trey

trey — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:05:27 +0000

“Why do people believe in imaginary returns, frauds and fakes?… Do we believe things because it is in our self-interest? Or is it because we can be manipulated by others?”

By: D

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:59:08 +0000

I believe one day will be technically possible to register *.* so I do not think *.ext is something I should care about

By: Rob Sequin

Rob Sequin — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:52:13 +0000

Well thought out and I agree but just to play the other side and look for a positive here…

Say .disney and .ebay get approved.

Both companies might roll out multi-million dollar ad campaigns promoting these new “opportunities” for people to get a great domain name.

So, that would put domains in general on peoples’ minds which would be a great thing for all of us.

Many people will say why would I want mysmallbusiness.ebay? Why don’t I try to buy mysmallbusiness.com?

Never know. Something good might come out of it.