Rod Beckstrom and ICANN have called the new gTld program an opportunity, and that it should increase choice and lower prices.
Guess what? People want the good names, not what is left over after “Founders programs” and auctions of all the good domains that were held back.
By the time the average person interested in .xxx gets a chance to spend $70 to $80 for a one year registration, all the great names will be gone.
Frank Schilling and Michael Berkens and a bunch of other wealthy domain investors got to pick through the good stuff, before the public can register an average domain. I have no problem with Frank or the registry. The registry is the king of the extension and its good to be king.
With .xxx as an example, other extensions will do the same. They will be consulted by people like Michael Berkens’ rightofthedot.com to hold back all the top keywords. Hold back all the LL,NN,LLL and NNN domains. To auction these names for maximum profit. Again not a problem from a business standpoint.
On the other hand it goes against the ICANN mantra of “more choice, lower prices” When these new extensions come out, people will want the good stuff. They will want short names that they could not get in .com. Who wants a two word .shop? You might as well get an average .com. If people want the names that matter in these new tlds they will have to pay up. If they are not domainers, auctions and the like will be very confusing to them.
So its not a new opportunity, it’s business as usual.
Spot on, these new tlds are not needed.
You won’t read an article like this on the shill blog for new tlds,the domain blog of the year. hahaha. excuse me I have to chuckle.
I tell you what will break records…..
the .xxx drops
a river of crap will drop
I won’t be touching this or .co or any other NEW tld
I don’t care what ‘messiah’ is preaching about it
.com , .org and quality country extensions like .co.uk and .de is where it’s at
imo
Well most domainers are douchebags so they will probably fall for each one.
thanks for all the credit.
You should know that there are NO LL.xxx or NN.xxx allowed by ICANN
actually there will be no two letter domains for any new gTLD either.
Also ICM was required by to reserve all countries and capital cities, they will not be sold or made available under ICANN rules
ICM has less than 2K domains reserved there are 999 possible combinations of NNN.XXX domains and 18K combinations of LLL.XXX domains and as I said less than 2,000 domains are reserved.
Finally ICM has invested over $20 million to get approved, added to the root and now a few more in marketing.
If they would allow sex.xxx to be sold for a registration fee of $100 then they certainly wouldn’t be very good business people and never made the $20M+ they did to invest into the registry.
Like most other things in life, If you want the good stuff you have to pay for it.
Thanks for taking the time to post Mike.
I hope I made clear,I see nothing wrong with it. Its business. My point was that ICANN is the one who looks foolish here, by saying they did all this for one reason and that reason IMO will be diluted. The names people want they will still have to pay up for. They might as well just pay up for it in .com.