Watch the new TLD session from last week’s WHD.usa.
I thought the new TLD panel at last week’s WHD.usa conference in Phoenix was one of the best I’ve seen on the topic. I give a lot of credit to Paul Mockapetris (inventor of DNS and SMTP) for asking tough questions in a non-defensive way. It probably also helped to have this discussion away from a domain name conference.
The video embedded below was recorded by InterNetX. It picks up a few minutes into the session. A few points of interest are:
appx 6:00 minutes – Discussion about the lack of demand for IDNs
13:55 – Have any new TLDs crashed and burned?
32:00 – Discussion about plural and singular top level domains
The panelists, from left to right:
Joel Rasquinha, Radix
Crews Gore, InterNetX
Vern Jurovich, Uniregistry
Brad Lemire, Sedo
Colin Campbell, .Club
Paul Mockapetris, Moderator (on stool)
scrivener3 says
Why do people need these business category gTLD’s? If you think of every business that you know of, you know their business segment without it being in their name or address. Google is an online company, Ford is a car company, Coke is a soft drink company, Fox is a TV network. You, and they, do not need a Google.online, Ford.cars, Coke.beverages, Fox.tv.
If you are in an email app (gmail or thunderbird or microsoft mail) you don’t need an internet address yahoo.email; it adds nothing, whatever address you type in will connect to the email presence of that thing. If you are in a web browser like chrome you don’t need to use x.online or x.website. Why do we need moonster.jobs when we know Monster.com is about jobs. Do you need facebook.social?
I think the whole thing was misguided.
Tony C says
The gTld’s were NOT necessarily meant to replace the One-word Domains. It is a new option of branding to avoid long and/or convoluted domain names.
Gui says
You are SO wrong! You are talking for yourself… Someone who doesn’t know monster.com is about jobs, they CENTAINLY know it is about jobs when they see monster.job helllooooo???? U need to step up your game sir
DUH
Tony C says
I’ve noticed many “Domainers” are threatened by the new gtld’s because it makes the domain investing game much much harder while possibly decreasing the values of their .com’s, .net’s and .org’s. But HEY these gtld’s are serving a great purpose. I personally have over 1,000 “.com” domains and many strong one-worders (Storks.com , Lullabies.com , Institutions.com , etc) but lately I have put a big emphasis on gTld’s and dropped my long “.com” domains. I have invested in many gTld’s that make sense to me. I have purchased 100+ “.city” domains (Phoenix.city, Dallas.city, Boise.city, etc) To me “.city” makes more sense in this case than a “.com”. Phoenix is a City not a Com or Commercial. Don’t discredit gTld’s. That’s not going to make your “.com” portfolio any stronger. Sorry, I know this is not what most domainers want to hear.