Accountant (answering phone): Smith CPA, may I help you?
Salesperson: Hi Mr. Smith. Did you know that you can now get a web address that ends in .accountant, rather than your existing .com domain?
Accountant: I didn’t. Why would I do that?
Salesperson: It will help you get more business online. Visitors will instantly recognize that you’re an accountant. And it’s only $25 a year.
Accountant: Interesting. OK, I’ll take smith.accountant.
Salesperson: Great!
One month later…
Accountant (answering phone): Smith CPA, may I help you?
Salesperson 2: Hi Mr. Smith. Did you know that you can now get a .accountantS web address, rather than your existing .com domain?
Accountant: Oh, I already have my new smith.accountant domain name.
Salesperson 2: Are you sure? It says right here that smith.accountants is available.
Accountant: Yeah, you guys called me last month and I bought it for $25. The charge is already on my credit card.
Salesperson 2: I’m sorry, Mr. Smith. There must be some confusion. Our domains are $50, and smith.accountants is still available.
Accountant: Wait, did you say dot accountantS or dot accountant?
Ron says
Where does the madness end, stick with .com, R.S. has it right, companies have already spent to much into their .com development.
Companies will try to get rich off this little gold rush, but don’t expect to many domainers to back it. All the good names will be withheld for bigger auctions, not like .com’s which were free, and clear back in the day.
Bill says
More like ring ring… Dot huh? So I own my dot com for the last 10 years and am doing just fine. Click.
AbdulBasit Makrani says
Loll. This confusion is going to happen in future for sure.
John UK says
LOL, that is great advert for why these tld’s are going to cause nothing more than confusion and litigation. Oh well.
Adam says
Calls like these will be the butt of many future jokes and will be the new thing that makes domain business hated by many more.
Nanda says
Crazy, but makes perfect sense! ha ha this is how they will sell one million and one fancy domain extensions that makes no sense in future, adding to existing mental load. I may be wrong, will correct myself if market decides otherwise.
PS: Looking at the domain forums, I see that in the past we used to give and get trader ratings like there is no tomorrow! Now It is hard to find a domainer with double digit trader rating. It already means less business to me. These custom gtld’s look like end user things where domainers have little to make or lose.
RAYY.co says
Some of the problems of .anything is the long tail extention…..
JohnSmith.accountant is too long to type-in, not good in mobile device.
JohnSmith.com is short to type-in
Andrew Allemann says
@ Rayy.co – of course, that accountant will also be able to select .cpa
RAYY.co says
@Andrew Allemann
That’s true. Short gTLD .cpa has a better chance of using.