8 TLDs I’ll Express an Interest In
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
At $100 a pop, I’d submit an Expression of Interest for a bunch of new top level domain names.
Tomorrow ICANN’s board will consider accepting “expressions of interest” for new top level domains from applicants. On DNW Radio a couple weeks ago, Minds + Machines founder Antony Van Couvering suggested that these expressions of interest require a $55,000 payment. I agree that a substantial fee should be required to make it predictive of actual applications.
Others have suggested a lower fee, such as $100. At that price point, count me in. I want to throw my hat in the ring for a handful of new TLDs, just for the fun of it. Here are 8 TLDs I want and why.
.Catholic – The Pope won’t be excited about this. But think of the marketing opportunity! I’ll charge $1,000 per domain, which includes forgiveness for one sin or a marriage annulment.
.Things – The .sport Policy Advisory Council thinks no one should be able to apply for a TLD that falls “below” .sport, such as .basketball. So I’ll apply for .things and say .sport shouldn’t exist. I figure I’ll save .sport a lot of wasted money, anyway. Who would really want a .sport domain name?
.xxx – I’m just pushing along the arbitration process here.
.Comm – This stands for communists. Seriously, that’s the only reason I want one of these.
.Mobile – Can .mobi fight this?
.Park – All domains under .park will be parked.
.Advertising – Uh oh, here come AOL’s lawyers.
.You – After seeing how much fun people had thinking up names like Screw.me, I think this TLD will be a hit.
Feel free to add your own.
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.huh – only 4 and 5 character names are allowed and they must be completely unpronounceable.
.101 – saves me a bunch of reg fees for all those Something101.com’s I keep getting.
.si, .see and .c – If you have to ask why, then you obviously don’t register enough typos.
.cel – mobile competitor to .tel
I could probably do this all day.
.Sucks
.squat – all domains must be trademarks, but not your own trademarks.
The dispute policy entitles you to transfer of a domain name if you prove the registrant actually has a trademark for the name.
I like the .Catholic biz model, although it´s hardly an original idea… St. Peter´s Basilica in Rome was financed in the same way
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence#Abuses
RT @klaikong: RT @moui: คนนี้ตลกดี อยากได้ .comm สำหรับหมายถึง communist http://bit.ly/7ajkBs
The people’s choices rarely change. ICANN will find THEY have to pay to have new TLDs considered by vISPs with Set-Top Boxes.
10514 INC
9264 ONLINE
7288 NET
6472 USA
4481 GROUP
4101 WEB
3891 TECH
3077 UK
2762 DESIGN
2570 SYSTEMS
2542 IT
2415 US
2378 SOLUTIONS
2322 LINE
2209 LAW
2171 CONSULTING
2161 INFO
2033 SERVICES
2027 WORLD
1966 SOFTWARE
1940 INTERNATIONAL
1932 INTL
1880 CORP
1874 CO
1803 SHOP
1795 FRANCE
1720 HOMES
1671 S
1638 ART
1603 TV
1587 TRAVEL
1555 MAIL
1534 EUROPE
1529 DIRECT
1491 MEDIA
1487 MALL
1431 E
1419 LTD
1417 ASSOCIATES
1411 1
1361 SERVICE
1342 2000
1339 Z
1301 NETWORK
1289 NEWS
1269 INT
1232 SA
1218 ENTERPRISES
1217 CENTER
1216 CLUB
1202 MARKETING
1177 REALTY
1161 MUSIC
1149 STORE
1144 INSURANCE
1108 I
1101 COM
1083 PRODUCTS
1070 REALESTATE
1068 JP
1045 GMBH
1041 X
1022 SALES
1018 PLUS
1000 LINK
999 AMERICA
I know I know! I made one up that will be huge! I call it “dot com”. Oh, wait.
There will be more tlds than people interested in registering domains in that tld.
Thats actually the aim of icann.
Aside from making money at the cost of the small business, as usual.
Just in case someone wants to spend $ 55K.
Here are some possibilities
.sin
.car
.beer
.wine
.soda
.diet
.lite
.boat
.dirty
.lamp
.tool
.meat
.meds
.dnw
.dnj
.dnf
.flower
.gift
.cats
.dogs
.money
.bank
.stock
(comment by the real domain investor.
)
.scam
Figure it might make it easier for all those nigerian prices to get the domains they really want.
.con
.dot
.god
.ted (these are all mine!)
.marijuana
.pot
.cannabis
When the deals were cut with The Clintons and Ira Magaziner in 1997 & 1998, people could not imagine a domain industry.
One of the selling points of ICANN to Ira Magazinar was that ICANN would ONLY do Proof-of-Concept Market Trials. The IANA “task” was not slipped in the back-door at the time. That happened while people were not paying attention.
As a TLD Market Trial company ICANN was supposed to develop ways to encourage “Communities” to form. People could show
their Expression of Interest by registering
a name and developing it.
As people have seen, time has been needed to
re-architect the DNS system. It is very
different from 1998. Root servers are not
used and ICANN has no exclusive control.
The U.S. government wants to make ICANN one
of many at this point.
People will now see that Free Market Forces
and a competitive domain industry will shape
the future. Premium Registrars pulled from
the Domainer population will now emerge.
One could not produce those in 1998 because
there was no domain industry.
Many Chicken & Egg situations have now been
solved. There are many Chickens and many
Eggs. Some people do not like that. It is
part of the Internet Evolution. More changes
will be coming. There will be winners and
losers. That is life.
.web – if the original applicants don’t get it that is
.hotel – readymade billion dollar industry
.solar – renewable energy is the only way forward
.sale – cheap stuff, on all the domains
Though at $100, I’d probably also want .surname
Enough dreaming, back to the real world. How many of these new extensions do you think will even be popular?