Comments on: Wired.com Interviews ICANN’s Beckstrom, & Covers The New gTLD’s, Trademarks & More

By: █████ my OLPC design █████

█████ my OLPC design █████ — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:29:14 +0000

months ago, on my ghostNASA.com blog, I’ve proposed the .Space .Moon .Mars TLDs for the space station, the astronauts, the space outposts, the human colonies and the space tourists…

By: David Wrixon

David Wrixon — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:50:36 +0000

The credibility of Domain “Investors” gets stretched everyday. Clearly the creation of on New TLDs in the past has done little help diversity or generate profits but apart from IDN this has been done at the behest of Domain “Investors”, many of whom have already lost a packet on the likes of Dot Mobi, Dot WS and Dot Name.

The same community also not only whines about the confusion, but also the prices that provide any exclusivity whatsoever. Most cannot even be bothered to appraise themselves on the development of ICANN policies before spouting their drivel. But then if they were all Geniuses then the rest of would have struggled more to make a fortune on the opportunities that have been are still out there.

Lets be 100% clear on BS Development. No amount of restriction on the issuing at top level is ever going to stop this, until Google starts to use algorithms that control “keyword rich” domains.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:56:36 +0000

Good post on summarizing the article by Wired and good comments too.

It seems like professor David Faber hit right on the nail:

1. “ICANN needs to counter its reputation for holding meetings in fancy places, where members live the high life on fees paid to ICANN through domain registrations.”

2. “I don’t think that creates innovation, I think that creates rapid confusion.”

I think the introduction of additional gTLD domain names for anyone who has money pretty much is a bad sign to credibility of ICANN that it has exhausting every day. They need to be more selective on who is chosen to run these new TLDs.

I do think the new CEO of ICANN does have a good argument on how the introduction of new TLDs will generate more new ideas. This is natural, but it looks like his method of execution could probably be tweaked a little.

I am thinking worst case scenario it will probably drive up the prices of .com domain names even more then the way they are already going up.

Its a shame ICANN can’t force some form of price increase for .com domain names to shake up the traders and force all the additional profits to building a better ICANN foundation around the world.

By: snicksnack

snicksnack — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:07:39 +0000

I doubt that registrars will make a lot of money from the nTLDs. The registry providers might, the registries themselves might to in some cases but in most cases I doubt it. Some big companies might go after their own extension, just to find out that it will cost too much money to market this extension to the consumers. I don’t think that nTLDs will increase the value of .com or of .ccTLDs, but it once again will demonstrate the power of type in traffic versus the traffic you have to “buy/create” when promoting an extension nobody know and uses.

By: Famous Quotes in Domaining

Famous Quotes in Domaining — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:57:15 +0000

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By: ::: Very Good Domains :::

::: Very Good Domains ::: — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:53:23 +0000

there is no problem with the TLDs’ inflation since the useless TLDs slowly vanish in tbe fog… e.g. do you own, use, buy, remember the .name domain names?

By: David J Castello

David J Castello — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:33:47 +0000

@Peter Y
That’s not what I said, but I wish you the best.

By: Peter Y.

Peter Y. — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:13:42 +0000

Ah, it’s your selfless concern for TLD investors that prompts your comments. New TLD applicants take note – David Castello believes you are making a mistake, and for your own sake, is seeking to stop the process!

By: David J Castello

David J Castello — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:14:44 +0000

@Peter Y
On the contrary, we’re in favor of the new Tlds. They will be great for dotCom. The problem is that a lot of investors will get burned and that is good for no one. Hence the reason we speak up.

By: Peter Y.

Peter Y. — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:32:34 +0000

“Memory based dot com domains will increase in value in spite of this.”

You’d think if new TLDs were going to be such a boon to premium .com holders the Castello brothers wouldn’t be on every new gTLD thread of every last domain blog lobbying against the new gTLD program.