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Reevaluating New Top Level Domain Names | Domaining Manual — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:11:59 +0000

[...] the introduction of new top level domain names. Look, everyone who’s pushing for new TLDs is in it for the money. And there’s money to be made, so rather than just fight it I’m also looking at how to [...]

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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:46:32 +0000

By: MHB

MHB — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:56:13 +0000

Visitor

Even more importantly the companies you mentioned; Buydomains, NameMedia, Enom (Demand Media) and Godaddy have not contributed a dime to the ICA to the best of my knowledge

By: visitor

visitor — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:50:55 +0000

In response to Everything banner comments, why don’t the forums and blogs display a banner free?

It really boils down to whom is making money from the industry and they should be promoting ICA.

Mike has a small banner at the bottom of this page.
Ron Jackson also has one at the bottom of his front page.
So does Sedo.

No banners on BuyDomains, NameMedia, Enom, GoDaddy, Elliot’s, DNF, DNN or DNW.

By: MHB

MHB — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:19:21 +0000

Everything

You should work for the US government, you seem to be very good at spending everyone else’s money

By: Minds + Machines: New gTLD’s Will Cause Only 316 New Cases Of CyberSquatting | Domaining Manual

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:07:13 +0000

[...] On the panel I sat in last week, predictions for number of new gTLD’s extension for the 1st year ranged from 100-1,500. [...]

By: 3 Reasons Why ICANN gTLDs Will Fail at DamnDomainer™ – SEO Tips for Domainers

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:52:47 +0000

[...] Domainer Michael Berkens has pointed out that the ICANN, a supposedly non-profit organization, is pushing for gTLDs because it is all about money. [...]

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:18:25 +0000

As for .me, porsche.me was a famous case of stupidity indeed.
I also remember that cocacola.me was on sale at namepros – lol. It looks like that name is still in the hands of the individual, unlike the non-hyphenated version.

By: Dot Me of Course!

Dot Me of Course! — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:16:48 +0000

.ME did pretty well as the number of UDRP cases was negligibly small: http://dot-me.of-cour.se/2010/01/22/lessons-of-project-me/

On the other hand, that is rather a ccTLD with a very good element of gTLD indeed.

By: ojohn

ojohn — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:41:42 +0000

Here are a few observations and ideas:

If you want more domainer participation you might consider changing the name ICA to something that domainers can identify with more, like something that emphasizes more on the word domains or domainer rather than Internet Commerce.

The divide between the small domainers and the elite and the opposing interest that some people have in different TLDs has caused many people to take sides and by doing so they can no longer represent all domainers without bias. Some of the people who are being glorified here as the defenders of the domain Industry are the same exact people who ridicule the average domainers and ignore their input and thus have alienated a lot of people who otherwise could have contributed a lot to ICA in terms of support and new ideas.

As I had mentioned in another post here, perhaps the directors of ICA could use part of the donations made by the domainers to create a portfolio of domains (good domains that could be monetized without any issues) on behalf of the organization in order to create a source of revenue and thus make ICA more self-supportive.

ICA might also be able to attract more members by offering exclusive services to domainers and by negotiating discounted rates for them as a group. If domainers can save money on some of the things that they need they might have an easier time convincing themselves to become members and pay their yearly dues.

PS: I think that new TLDs are going to be here eventually and the fact that all discussions about them were discouraged up to now is leaving a lot of room for some unforeseen and unfavorable outcomes such as a few companies taking advantage of unfair trademarks ending up with generic TLDs that in reality should belong to all the people.