I have a post scheduledaround 10pm tonight.

Read that and see where I’m coming from building out a business based on an alternative extension and we will chat over there

“.biz has 5M registrations but their value has not impressed most observers.”

“So if you want to build a site around them go ahead, but as an investment you would be better off buying those five figure .com’s that you seem to hate.”

I’m not looking at this from the perspective of a domainer; I’m looking at it from the perspective of consumers, which goes back to my point that consumers do not need to be “educated” as to why they need to be spending five figures for a half-decent .com domain. The addition of new TLDs helps consumers, most of whom could care less what the “investment value” of their domain is and simply want a descriptive name for their website(s) at a reasonable price.

I believe the restrictions on .travel were lifted a while back as the registry sold some at domain shows last year.

.biz has 5M registrations but their value has not impressed most observers.

I’m pretty sure there have been few that have ever reached the five figures.

So if you want to build a site around them go ahead, but as an investment you would be better off buying those five figure .com’s that you seem to hate.

.info has 5 million +, .biz has 2 million +, .mobi has around a million I think, others in the high hundreds of thousands.

As I’m sure you know, restrictive TLDs like .travel failed due to things like this:

“A .travel domain name will be available to all travel suppliers who meet the application criteria to become a .travel certified provider. Each applicant will go through an accreditation process to evaluate their business fitness based on the submission of a comprehensive application that will include business plans and financial requirements. The applicants will submit their application directly to an accredited registrar, who will transfer the information to the IATA .travel accreditation staff for review and verification. Once approved, the Registry Operator will be instructed to proceed with DNS zone file generation. At this point, the domain name will go live on the .travel TLD.”

“”They need real choice, as represented by new top level domains.”"

We will see.

So far consumers haven’t really taken advantage or shown any interest in any of the new choices so far like .travel, .mobi, .tel and even .biz

StubHub is a distribution channel for the leagues and is more analogous to a registrar in the domain ecosystem. Domainers are analogous to the guy who buys up tickets on StubHub and resells them on CraigsList or on a street corner outside the stadium.

Consumers do not need to be “educated” as to why they need to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a half-decent domain name. They need real choice, as represented by new top level domains.

Actually those that use to be called ticket scaplers now are called stubhub.com and ticketsnow.com both of which the NCAA, NFL and other major leagues not only endorse but use on their official site and sites of their teams to move tickets.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/tickets/

This is education of the consumer and the maturing of an industry