The fact that there are so many of them makes it more difficult for me to recall which ones were applied for.
I live and breathe domain names, and research what’s going on with new TLDs on a daily basis.
But when I’m put on the spot and people ask me for examples of some of the new domain names coming out, I often freeze.
I can think of a few, but after that I start questioning to myself: wait, did someone actually apply for this domain about about to mention?
Was it Boston or Chicago that is getting its own domain? Did someone end up applying for .automotive, or just .auto? Or was it .cars?
I don’t want to make a mistake and rattle off a domain that didn’t end up being applied for, especially when speaking to another reporter.
If you ask me to write a list of new TLDs, I can churn them out all day. But put me on the spot and it’s a bit more difficult.
I’m not the only one. Check out this recent USA Today interview with GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving. He manages to list a bunch of new TLDs that are coming out. But when pressed for more, he says some that aren’t in the current round.
They’re mostly near misses: photographer instead of photography, plumber instead of plumbing, etc.
Of course, near misses don’t bode well for the general public when trying to remember domains, either.
“Honey, was the plumber’s website joesmith.plumber or joesmith.plumbing?”
No worries, Andrew, it’s just another trait of getting older 😀 Have you tried Lumosity.com ?
That must be it. I’ll go check out Lumo.City right now.
Rick is going to be all over this post in 3… 2… 1….
It’s not meant to be a blast against new TLDs (other than the confusing between plumbing and plumber type of thing). I think it’s just so overwhelming with so many domains right now.
A pretty spurious argument against the new Domains. Everything takes time to be assimilated into usage with greater recall associated with that.
Go ahead and dismiss the confusion factor. Yes, go ahead.
A very smart domainer, Andrew Allemann, is claiming to be confused with the sheer quantity of verbs, nouns, singular, plural, adjectives, on extensions that are often over 12 digits long, and you want to blame it on Rick Schwartz….of course, a great straw man.
But nobody can forget .SEXY. : ) It’s the only one I can remember (Yeah baby!)
I typically remember your first two (.sexy and .tattoo), but I always end up misspelling the latter!
Welcome to the twilight zone. And your web address is what again?
It’s like what one of my kids once said to me, “If I have to think hard to remember it, or not, it’s probably not that important, and why waste my time?” Put simply, if Joe Public gets confused about it, you probably have an uphill battle.
Domain Investors: Wake UP
This is a ploy designed by your overlords at Google to trick you in to confusing the absolute shit out of your current customer base.
If there was not new TLDs Google could not profit off the confusion.
Confusion = SERPs and not Type-ins.
Don’t allow the trojan horse of new gTLDs in to the arena.
Then why are you using an .io domain, Jake?
There is no confusion. Brands are TLD-agnostic.