By: Raymond Hackney
Blake Irving sat down with AZ TechBeat and discusses the new gtlds. Irving starts out talking about how there is a lot of domain name pollution, that his kids think .fail is awesome and that no one uses the address bar and instead of everyone goes to Google.
The video is 4 minutes long and is worth listening too.
Nice find, Raymond. Congrats!
It’s too bad a man in his position knows nothing about domain name traffic. He says things that are untrue and presumptuous based on absolutely no facts and only his feelings.
How would he possibly explain direct navigation if what he says is true?
This interview is almost as bad as the recent Forbes article on domain names.
Also, he says there are and were no domains available. He’s saying that GoDaddy did three whois searches and settled on the third one because the first two were gone? They are not gone, they are owned by other people. So what he’s saying is there are no free lunches anymore with domains.
Well, guess what? That’s how it is with everything in the world. Nothing is free, and any of us can find a name like GoDaddy right now in a handful of whois searches. He’s trying to sell a fallacy.
It is an interesting argument that since .coms are exhausted, the flurry of new gtlds will be dream come true for many small business owners. But, I believe that what is more difficult is for the general public to grasp this concept. Maybe in 10 yrs or so , they may be successful, but I don’t see them rocketing at present. For example, .travel has been around already. Do all travel agencies go after that extension?
I don’t think so.
there is restrictions on .travel so i think the new gTld will be different. i dont think they will all take off but i can see around 5-10 of them really takong off. the key will be identifying which ones they are..