I don’t think there will be anyone breaking down doors to buy dotTravel.

Except in some countries with their respective CCtlds, the only TLD that will ever get direct navigation is dotCom. These future vanity TLDs will be entirely search engine independant.

Many people argue that, eventually, everybody will search for names – so why does the TLD matter?

The reason the TLD matters is not the initial search. It matters the 2nd time someone tries to remember the domain name of your business. And as any Marketing 101 student will tell you, this is the essence of branding.

Businesses build based on repeat customers. No business should ever have to depend on the public remembering their company’s domain name based upon their search engine ranking.

.travel is going to be relaunched, lifting the restrictions which doomed the extension from the initial launch.

Most importantly anyone will be able to own .travel domains, not just travel agents.

Look for some of the best of the .travel domains to be auctioned off at DomainFest in January.

After that auction we may get a much better idea of where that, and the new extensions are heading

Comments like that insult people’s intelligence. ICANN somewhat mirror the type of corruption that has crept into government with lobbyists, special interests, pork barrel spending. Kind of an arrogant indifference to common sense approaches and concerns.

I notice that some ICANN reps have a knack for “talking around” a core issue without directly addressing it. This is the strategy adopted by politicians, CEO’s, and others with a suspect agenda.

Let’s hear Twomey quoted as saying “We are taking a serious second look at the new tld proposal. It has come to our attention that the introduction of unlimited new tld’s could actually pose serious problems to the organization of the internet and potentially hurt thousands of companies via unprecedented TM infringement”.

Also, this new TLD seems like an unnecessary expense for “major brands” that most likely already have a strong presence on the web. Why would ICANN assume the new registrations will come from companies and not domainers trying to make a buck.

Happy Thanks Giving to all of you.

Daniel

I will say that this will hurt in a bit way the Tlds’s like .tv, .info, .us, .travel, .mobi in a very big way. .com’s will flourish.

I agree the more the merrier at this point.

The more new extension the better .com will be.

50 new highly targeted extension would work.

1,000 new extension will cause huge confusion.

The only downside maybe, will this mass confusion that we all agree will occur on the released of many hundreds or thousands of new extensions, result in less direct navigation and more usage of search engines?

I think that is a real possibility.

Thanks for your kind words and holiday wishes.

Best to you and your family.

Mike

.asia domain name ext. are search engine friendly

Domain Confusion = .Com Comfort & Familiarity

ps Off topic; but I also want to take a moment to a “Thanksgiving moment” to thank Michael for all the time and hard work he puts in to this blog.

I don’t know how you and all the other leading domain bloggers do it; but I’m certainly glad, and thankful; that you do.

Well said.

Ed – Michigan