Comments on: Rules for New Domain Extensions Announced (gTLD’s)

By: MHB

MHB — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:18:16 +0000

Samit

I agree with Namesugar.

.realestate for example. You don’t think there would be people lining up to bid on newyork.realestate and well as the top 100 markets in the country?

How about houses.realestate or condos.realestate

Likewise .lawyer.

newyork.laywer or criminal.lawyer.

Every city, every town, every specialty will be auctioned off for big money

By: NameSugar

NameSugar — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:33:04 +0000

Samit,

Depends on the TLD. No one is going to pay a premium for an irrelevant domain but I’m sure there will be a few that are popular. The often cited example of .ebay could rake in tons of cash in premium regs if they chose to go that route.

cars.ebay alone could pay their gTLD application fee, which would be capped since most TM holders won’t have to get in a bidding war for their desired extension.

How much would you pay for domains.ebay?

By: Samit

Samit — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:57:30 +0000

Very interesting, but its a big risk game. $185k is not exactly small change, even for ‘established’ entities. Then again, compared to the portfolios some people have, its not much either.

One thing I’ll disagree with is your premium pricing scenario. If there are say 50 new tlds, what makes you think that premium pricing will be paid by registrants for a me too tld?

I’d say that anyone entering this game must for the long haul, its not going to be instantly profitable as some people think.

By: Damir

Damir — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:33:27 +0000

Let’s see what will come out of it LOL

By: Clayton Narcis

Clayton Narcis — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:06:49 +0000

It’s interesting to note that ICANN has included a paragraph explaining that ICANN won’t be making any profits from auctions and excess fund will be decided how it is channel back to the community.

That’s noble, let’s hope it happens and it better be transparent.

If it’s not for auction, what would you guys think it would be a better way to resolve contention?

By: Steve M

Steve M — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:00:32 +0000

…and we thought the Olympics were exciting…let the domain games begin.

By: NameSugar

NameSugar — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:31:18 +0000

“strings cannot be confusingly similar to an existing gTLD”

What about ccTLDs? For example .television would compete with .TV and if New York gets .NYC what is Los Angeles going to do about .LA?

By: GPS

GPS — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:38:47 +0000

I chuckled at their cover letter, stating that they’ve been in “discussions for more than 18 months”, yet “the Applicant Guidebook……is a draft”.

Do you see any chance that a new TLD could emerge from this process any quicker than say 3-4 years?