Rob Hall Of Pool.com on The Coming New gTLD’s : If I Was A Big Domain Holder I Would Start Dumping Domains
Today at opening session of the Dot Nxt conference entitled: Setting the Scene, a questions was asked what would you tell large domain holders in anticipation of hundreds or thousands of new gTLD’s
Rob Hall of Pool.com made stated “if I was an owner of a large amount of two, three and four word .com’s I would dump them as new gTLD generic terms will be worth more than the .com equivalent in the future.”
“If I owned Shoes.com I would probably keep it, but if I owned Greatshoes.com, or GreatShoesforsale.com I would dump them”
I spoke to Rob for a while after the session to get further clarification and he used the example of “Ottawa Pizza”
Rob thinks that once there is a .Ottawa and a .Pizza the domain names Pizza.Ottawa or Ottawa.Pizza would both be worth substantially more than OttawaPizza.com.
I asked assuming if GreatPizza.com is worth $50K today what would it be worth a few after say a .Pizza is live.
He said there would be an immediate loss of 20K in value and the decline in value would continue but slow.
Finally he asked me to tell him a domain I owned, so I said Stuff.com.
“So would you rather own Stuff.com or .Stuff for $185K?
“If you owned the TLD don’t you think you could sell 10,000 registrations a year at $10 or make $100K a year.”
Maybe you would sell 50,000 registrations a year and now make $500,000 a year and that would be an annuity in perpetuity.
“So why wouldn’t you sell your generic .com’s and use the money to fund new gTLD’s”
Its certainly a radical approach to domains and one I haven’t heard anyone discuss so boldly an publicly.
So what do you guys think.
Do you think the additional choices in the domain space will cause value of other than bang on one word generic to fall?
Would you rather own stuff.com or .stuff?
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Frankly
I don’t think
.com
is going to survive.
.Co
will succeed it,
just like Windows Vista superseded Windows 98, etc.
Constant improvement is the only sure thing.
au revoir mon .com ami
Hi,
@Gnanes
If we all need invites from “MHB”, more than the “.co cheerleader” might be out of luck…me included.
“MHB” does a great job of managing his blog and allowing most everyone to voice their options…within reason.
What I do in this particular case you mentioned…is just ‘scroll by’ a bit faster
Peace!
‘D’
@Robert….
Within reason…mean anything at all to you?
@Gnanes
Did not “scroll” fast enough this time
Peace!
‘D’
Robert Cline. Are you mad?
I have been very generous by adding the question mark.
RobHall.idioto
Well, let us look at this logically.
Answer this one simple question. Yes or No
Do you agree that the only constant is change ?
Yes or No
If yes, then answer the next question
What will .com change to ? Or What will .com evolve to ?
The logically answer is it will evolve to:
.Co
@Anunt
I understand what you are saying, but in my opinion Google will NEVER let it get to the point where users are typing “xxxxxx.whatever” into the URL box when they are looking for something. Why? Because that would bypass Google’s search engine- the way they make their billions and billions of dollars.
So if at any point in time there becomes a chance that gTLD’s take off, and people can type “pizzashops.houston” to search for pizza shops in Houston …. Google will simply make gTLD’s rank AWFULLY, or also come out openly and say they don’t rank well to discourage them.
To me this just seems like it would be the rational approach for a billion dollar corporation if its flagship/fundamental product – search – is threatened.
So maybe in a weird way you are right, ultimately Google will benefit. But I can’t see them letting “xxxxx.gTLD” make too much progress.
“If yes, then answer the next question
What will .com change to ? Or What will .com evolve to ?
The logically answer is it will evolve to:
.Co”
.COM, the most widely used extension in the world, with 25 years of history, trillions of dollars in advertising, and close to 100M regs, is going to be replaced by the ccTLD of Colombia. That makes sense in your world?
Brad
Rob has some good points especially with the pizza.ottawa example.
Rob made some very good points wich crossed my mind also.
Also the adaption rate. If you look at the speed of FB and other social media it is unreal how fast that was adopted. Will we face the same expierence with the new gTLD’s ? Or will it be slow ?
Regardless the price erosion will kick in.
If that the case, why don’t he sell off Pool dot com and get dot pool.
People who owns generic domain names do not mean they are expert, it means they are arrogant BS-ers.
Anybody can own a generic name via money.
Rob Hall is clueless
On that basis Rob Hall, I will contact BankRate.com and bid on the portfolio, they will realise the terrible mistake they made.
http://www.thedomains.com/2011/08/23/looks-like-bankrate-com-is-a-huge-domainer-spending-over-90-million-in-domains/
“Will we face the same expierence with the new gTLD’s ? Or will it be slow ?”
After 20+ years millions of people still don’t know if domains can be worth more than $10 godaddy regfee
Guys thanks for all the comments.
As someone who owns 75,000 domains I would say .com is going to be the most valuable extension for quite a while.
I’m 50 but for the younger people lets remember that things change.
Who knew 5 years ago that people would spend much of their day on facebook and twitter?
You can’t take .info or .mobi and just say they didn’t work so these new extensions won’t work
Please remember up to this time there may have been 1 new extension every 2 years.
Now we may have 500 or 1,000 in a year, including brands that will all be sending out a message that what you type to the right of the dot is as important as the left.
So NO ONE knows what is going to happen long term when the right of the dot expands from 22 extensions over 25 years to 1022 extensions in two year.
NO ONE knows.
We all have opinions but its just that
So as I always urge you to do, keep ahead of the game, play smart and leverage your position.
At age 50 with Alzheimer, one will never forget dot com.
Mike,
Lets remember we have the conversation about new TLDs as domainers and investors butnew TLDS are really about others most non-domainers. To think that others particularly technophobes will suddenly become guessing geniuses and spend oodles of time trying to figure out if it is pizza.ottawa or ottawa.pizza is a huge stretch. In fact mye experience is that users will type the direct navigation url into even a goog search box which is why I think meaningful memorable dotcoms are and will be king since they are the standard and don’t require guessing or work to remember.
Simplicity is what Internet users crave which BTW is why twitter and FB and lets not forget Googs are so popular. In addition those of us who buy sell dotcoms and have seen the non success of some of the other top tlds recently announced can say that yes some tlds will be sold but will they devalue the .coms drastically? My guess is over the next 5 – 10 years no.
to follow up Mike, I want to distinguish that just because I think that the masses of new tlds that may soon be introduced will not take hold on the net short term primarily because internet users will not spend time trying to figure which to use doesn’t mean that from an investment standpoint they are or are not worth the risk.
Look at the tons of .cos that are on auction and that obviously therefore some speculators once bought.
I bet .FB will make an appearance soon…
@Cline:
Thanks for the belly laugh! To the contrary, the fragmented marketing power of 1000 separate companies, each trying to promote their own silly gtld, will have absolutely NO chance of offsetting the awesome marketing power of .com .
Know any major ,BIZ websites? Me either. And that was sponsored by ICANN after their research showing a need! You really think that a little company will be able to promote their little crappy one better than that?
Those that would benefit from the marketing efforts of 1000 little gtld companies will solely be the owners of the correlating .com equivalents since that is where the visitors will inadvertently end up when they go to type in the intended destination and accidentally go to the .com version instead.
Mike you argued against your point, 1000 at a time makes it more probable that there is so much confusion that nothing gets accepted.
Yes it does make sense to question biz,mobi,info,jobs,travel,name.pro. To look at their adoption and usage rate as some guide to the new gtld. I mean that goes against the rightofthedot.com or TomG Encirca mantra, but it makes sense to anyone without a horse in the new gtld race.
You for got .museum, .cat, .aero, and my favorite, .coop!
All .disasters at a period when there were few other sanctioned options.
Yeah, you just keep on thinking that the new ones will catch on better!
Read between the lines, short domains will be worth a lot, longer domains, not as much as they are now.
But even then PizzaOttawa.com will be worth MORE than ottawa.pizza or pizza.ottaway, at least for this generation.
The total amount of money spent in developing and promoting .COMs will not be surpassed by any other extension in the next twenty years at least and therein lies the value.
I’ll take Pool.com off his hands!
a $50,000 .com domain will decrease in value to $20,000
start selling before others sell in a stampede, which incidentally has already happened I believe from the list of domains that are coming online for sale right now.
And if you don’t think the coming of the new right of the dot era
will not have an influence on the value of your domains
you are, well, lets just say … f***ed
“The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated” – Mark Twain… and the same can be said of any established extension today, specially .com
The people who will make money in the ‘new right of the dot era’ (lol) will actually be the registries, registrars and other sundry domain service providers, not domain investors.
Read this, it might help you understand better – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle – though with your .COloured lenses, probably not.
@Samit Madan -
“But even then PizzaOttawa.com will be worth MORE than ottawa.pizza or pizza.ottaway, at least for this generation.”
Ottawa.Pizza or Pizza.Ottawa will make OttawaPizza.com worth even more !
The day that it is not is the day the Internet gets replaced by something new the Al Gore invents.
Wonder how .EU went for Pool.com? Or .ASIA? Or .MOBI? Or .CO?
It seems that all these people pushing the new gTLDs want to concentrate on the wonderfulness of these yet to be confirmed TLDs while conveniently ignoring the mistakes of their past. With dropcatching Pool/Snapnames et al had a great business but it was erroded and once the larger registrars figured out they could make more money by shunting expired domains to their own auction house or auction partners, Pool/Snapnames etc never quite recovered. I think that Rob Hall is just pushing the latest salestalk to sell domains to the unsuspecting newbies who follow his “advice”.
Now for the really cynical bit. Most of the new gTLDs will fail. The TLD world is quickly splitting into a ccTLD/CNO market. While .COM is still growing, many of those new registrations have their equivalent in ccTLDs. The only other significant gTLD with high growth is .INFO. The ccTLDs are where real growth is talking place and what happens when these ccTLDs become dominant in their local market is that businesses no longer consider the brand protection registrations package necessary. They drop the outlying gTLD registrations. They don’t drop their .COM registrations. The .COM is a truly global TLD. This ccTLD/COM axis is one that the new gTLDs will struggle to make a dent in on a country market level. In most developed countries, that ccTLD/COM axis accounts for upwards of 80% of the domain market. New gTLD registrations at a country level might only account for hundreds of new registrations or a few thousand if the new gTLD is particularly lucky. Some new gTLDs might break the 1 million domains mark in the first year but most will struggle like .ASIA, .TEL and .PRO to gain significant market share.
I do not trust Rob Hall’s opinion.
Robert Cline, you make my eyes bleed because you base everything on NOTHING but your own wishful thinking. You have a one track agenda and I hope Mike starts to remove your comments as they have no place other than a pump and dump agenda that nobody appreciates. JMO. I am sure nobody agrees with me.
Agree with you Rick 100%. IF .com is f ‘d then .co is obliterated. This is becoming laughable. Opinions are great, they really need only to be given once in a post. The same thing over and over is just laughable.
There is this need to believe that one is the end all be all, its not.
There are people who have become wealthy by selling luxury cars and others by owning vending machines, and everything in between. Pick what you like and do it.
The key is the plan from the get go not trying to be all things to all people. The average domainer needs one pla,n he or she does not have the budget to multi plan.
Interesting replied from everyone. Great to see a fully informed community debating this.
Let me try and be more clear on my opinion. I do not think that .com erodes to no value as some have stated. .COM will for a very long time be the premium domain. And with the introduction of new TLD’s the generics and great domains in .COM will still have value.
However, the marginal domains in .COM that have some value now I believe will lose some of their value fairly quickly. There are a lot of marginal (ie: long) domains out there that will easily be replaced by a much better generic in a new TLD. So if I had a portfolio long on marginal domains I would be selling those. I would definitely be hanging on to any premium .coms.
And what of other TLD’s and ccTLD’s now ? Would you hang on to “ILoveOttawaPizza.org” or “BestPizzaInOttawa.ca” ? I would argue the value of these will drop when an enduser can buy a .Ottawa or .Pizza domain easily and at near Registry cost.
As to those who commented on Google search, I disagree. New TLD’s will make Search much more valuable. As the consumer mind set shifts to recognize there are now many new TLD’s (they largely ignored the last rounds), search will become even more important.
And I believe Google is in the business of trying to provide results of what a consumer wants. So I believe that they would rank a TLD that was in the search term of a user very highly. Search for Pizza in Ottawa, and I would be willing to bet that Ottawa.Pizza would score very high, as Google would think that is a domain that is clearly close and in a vertical to what the user is searching for.
On the topic of buying new TLDs rather than holding marginal second levels, I think it is a bit of a no brainer. I would much rather own .insurance than insurance.eu for example.
And thanks to those of you who think I should sell the domain Pool.com. If it was just a domain it would be easier to think of it like that, but it is a Brand for a profitable company. So it would be evaluated on the value of the business, not just the domain itself. Using your logic, the most valuable domain sale ever was when Google bought the domain youtube.com.
Rob
Shorter domains will become even more valuable, long-tails will become worthless as groogle begins to base search results on relevancy, not the domain name (keywords).
Zip.ca, a DVD rental service (owned by Momentous, which also owns Pool; Momentous also owns many registrars) appears to have really suffered lately (I ended my membership there recently, as have others if you read their forums). So I think part of Rob’s position is wishful thinking and maybe a wee bit of desperation, as they might *need* a source of short-term profits. MelbourneIT also recently reported weak earnings, and are looking to new TLDs to boost their profits (e.g. making money from helping companies with their applications, etc.).
Registrars *should* be pushing for a re-bid of the dot-com contract, so that VeriSign can’t keep raising prices 7% per year. Why aren’t they doing that? Registrants should be paying $2/yr or less for a dot-com renewal, and registrars would also be better off if that was the wholesale price. Of course, some of the registrars *want* to become registries, and so are not acting in the best interest of registrants.
As another poster suggested, it’s wiser to follow the “smart money”, like BankRate. Big companies like Microsoft, etc. continue to do stealth acquisitions for great dot-coms, too. When have you seen anyone do a stealth acquisition of a “great .biz” or a “must have .co”??!!??
The one great “positive” of new TLDs (not outweighed by all the negatives) is that they provide a distraction — how many competitors slept, while great .com domains were being acquired by the “smart money”?? (e.g. my company’s acquisition of School.com might not have been possible, had others not been distracted by new TLDs or other Fool’s Gold)
I certainly hope that some “weak hands” start selling their .com domains at firesale prices. I doubt you’ll find the big players, the true “smart money” like Anything.com, Digimedia, National A1, etc. being in that camp. The smart money will stick with .com and look to buy when others are looking to sell. If new TLDs were able to be “shorted”, the smart money would sell them short, just as the “dumb money” is looking to buy them. Of course, some “smart money” is not taking a position in them directly, but just wants to be a “middleman”, i.e. facilitating applications, etc., laughing all the way to the bank. However, there’s only a limited supply of “dumb money” that they can get at over time.
Why gTLD’s will fail:
1) too many
Old habits die hard
2) consumers like simplicity, not confusion
3) still 2 years away and plenty of opposition from governments/business organizations on the way
4) super high costs
5) different languages … whereas .com/.net/.org are used universally by people in all countries
6) Google will NEVER let it get to the point where people can type “ottawa.Pizza” to search for Pizza. That will bypass their search engines and BANKRUPT them. Sorry, that’s just an obvious but overlooked fact. Google controls the internet.
7) .COM has had 20 years to grow and end up in the hands of END USERS, thus accumulating quality.
Where gTLD’s can maybe succeed:
1) .MajorCorporatebrandsThatCanAffordToBlow $1 million +
2) .whateverOrganizationLookingtoBuildaCommunity
3) .aFewRandomOutliers
Rob the examples you gave of second tier names like BestpizzainOttawa.ca is already worthless.
I am not sure what makes everyone think the non techie/non domainer will pay attention at all.
I was at a party a couple weeks ago and two 30 year old women did not even know what the listings on the right side of Google were. I said those are sponsored ads, they both were like, “I only click the left hand side of the screen.”
This new tld party may be thrown and the average web user may not show up.
Rob: You mention “Ottawa.pizza” and other examples where “long tail” domains can be replaced at “registry cost”. But, isn’t it true that ICANN has done little to protect domain registrants from price gouging by new TLD registries (recall, the economic studies were a direct result of people like myself who opposed the attempt by .biz/info/org from removing price caps from their registry agreements)? Indeed, isn’t your own company planning to auction off all those supposed “good” names, anyhow, on behalf of those registries? Good luck! As I said previously, there’s only so many times one can go to the well of “dumb money”.
@MHB
Please don’t remove Robert Cline from these postings. Every palace needs a Court Jester. I know that most of the readers here have very red foreheads from continuously palm slapping it after reading his posts, but domaining is a very serious business and we are in dire need of the levity.
“NO ONE knows. We all have opinions but its just that
So as I always urge you to do, keep ahead of the game, play smart and leverage your position.”
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Sounds like the ICANN and ISOC strategy
THEY will be happy to extract millions from your wallet(s) and entertain you at their next meat-space meeting.
Time to build a new Internet – the U.S. FCC and IEEE are more honest forums
Registrars *should* be pushing for a re-bid of the dot-com contract, so that VeriSign can’t keep raising prices 7% per year. Why aren’t they doing that?
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One of the fascinating aspects of the so-called Internet.Community or the Eco.System is the TINY Role (voice) that Registrars have. There are also only
a couple of Registrars that matter. They hold most of the domains, in their
centralized Client-Server (Non-Internet) Architecture DNS.
Peer-2-Peer DNS will end the Verisign .COM era. Your domain will be flashed
into your $50 routers and modems. You can hold it in your hand. There is no
CENTRAL (Big.Brother) Registry. The Network forms the Registry.
Microsoft just cut a deal with China. It is ironic that it involves the control of
open source Linux. You can also bet China and M$ want to control Peer-2-Peer.
Skype was a strategic P2P purchase.
Client-Server (ICANN) DNS is just another Walled.Garden. Obviously many
people understand it and profit from it. It does not conform to the true
Internet Architecture, which is P2P.
Rob – I don’t think that you really understand the domain landscape outside of .com TLD. The ccTLDs have a very different dynamic to the TLDs like .COM where generic domains are best.
With ccTLDs, (and your .Ottowa example would be far closer to a ccTLD than a gTLD), people actually don’t have to remember the extension because they identify with it in a way that they don’t identify with .COM or the other gTLDs. This means that brandnames and location type names are far more important. Owning Pizza.Ottowa might be great for a domainer but the average person is going to call Dominos have their pizza delivered locally. And that’s what ccTLDs are – local. They are local in the same way that .COM is global.
As for .EU, Pool got demolished on that one as did a lot of non-EU speculators and domainers. What most of them did not understand was that the .EU ccTLD was a joke of a TLD whereas the main TLDs in the European Union are the real ccTLDs. Most of the junk that appeared in .EU was the same kind of stuff that people thought was valuable in .COM. The .EU ccTLD was incompetently run by a bunch of people from a third rate ccTLD registry with absolutely no expertise in running what was effectively a gTLD. It was speculated to hell and back by people who thought that every ccTLD was just like .COM and therefore whatever English language term was valuable in .COM was valuable in .EU. The problem was that most of these target domains were English language phrases and the EU is a market with around 27 different languages. In the English language areas of the EU, the .EU ccTLD is dead. Nobody really develops new sites in .EU. Nobody except the EUnuchs in the EU HQ in Brussels cares about it. But the Irish care about .IE, the British about .UK, and the Germans about .DE in a way that you just don’t seem to understand because you are purely focused in applying .COM rules to new gTLDs.
I agree with George’s comments above about Pool.com needing to acquire some new short term revenue streams. Pool.com needs fanboys like Robert Cline because they are the people left buying the dregs that never made it to the larger registrars’ auctions. I’m tracking about 18 million ccTLDs here and of these domains, just over 652K are .CO. Some of the early .CO domain registration patterns have more in common with .BIZ and .INFO than with the mainstream ccTLDs and .COM. It takes years for those highly speculative junk registrations to filter out of a new TLD. But operations like Pool.com depend on trying to sell the good drops along with the dregs.
As for your comment about Search it ignores about fifteen years of development in search engine algorithms. People trust their local ccTLDs and .COM as they have mindshare. People are familiar with these TLDs in a way that they are not familar with other TLDs. People might see a .CO result high in the results but they will ignore it because it is strange and it does not look right. They know .COM and their local ccTLD and they will be far more likely to click on these results purely out of familiarity. Search algorithms have moved well beyond the simple domain name/search term match. Thus the killer domain name has been trumped by killer content. Ironically this happened years ago and there’s a whole business (Search Engine Optimisation) that has grown up around it.
These new gTLDs are going to face the same problem than many of the more recently launched TLDs face. The most important one, for domainers, is the “Cannot Register A Premium” problem. The registries seem to hold back a list of premium domains in the hopes of gaining more revenue from their auction or the premium domains are sold off early to investors. This skews the markets but it benefits those in on the auction or working with the registries. But isn’t this where Pool.com wants to be?
“This new tld party may be thrown and the average web user may not show up.”
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It should be obvious who will show up at the “new TLD party”.
1. The Big.Brands who get to keep their .COM and buy a cyber.Trade.Mark for ONLY $185,000 and $25,000 per year. Compare that to a U.S. Federal TM cost.
ICANN is a real Non.Profit bargain (not). The $185,000 goes to ????panelists???
2. Deep pockets will show up for .INC .CORP .MOVIE .CPA and a dozen other billion dollar slices of the Name.Spectrum. Most people do not have 10+ years to endure the litigation. What was the total cost of .XXX in time (lost market) and money?
3. A few {MA PA and TLD} folks may show up and be run in circles until
they run out of money. No refunds of course.
4. Obscure Off.Shore “players” may slip into the party and walk away with some gems. They will probably sell up and out in a few years, similar to the Registrar roll.ups. Get yourself a cab driver in Kenya to front the TLD. ICANN will fall all
over themselves helping the poor fellow run YOUR diamond.mine.
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It may be more interesting who does NOT show up.
The real question is how can most of the good people on .EARTH be saved
from the above. P2P is a good bet. China and M$ are all over P2P.
I think .Com/.Net/.Org will remain on top. I used to think .CO would succeed and in fact had many strong keyword domains, which I am letting drop now. The fact that .CO has been heavily advertised and still end users haven’t adopted it, is a red flag. Many other gTLD’s will be released, which will further weaken .CO IMO. It will only make .COM stronger as people feel safe there + we are living on a very uncertain economy were people are not willing to risk like they did before.
Many folks got into .com’s long before my entering into it 13+ years back – and probably feel they were an integral part of “molding” the Internet the way it is today – and therefore, probably feel they are qualified to “Mold” the Internet into something other than .com’s as well now.
Unfortunately the Internet is only what the Legal Profession, Courts, International Courts and UDRP have “Molded” it into – and they have “Molded” it into one thing – .com’s – everything else is eaither reactionary, hype, bottom feeding ot believing your our BS.
“Unfortunately the Internet is only what the Legal Profession, Courts, International Courts and UDRP have “Molded” it into…”
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That may apply to “the Internet” that most people are forced to use.
ICANN and ISOC are helping people create a Prison.Without.Bars and the people step up to pay their captors like royalty
The inmates live off the other inmates…
i have been thinking about this for quite some time.and i think something that needs to be addressed is the number of letters to the right of the dot.today most are few .eu,.com..us,.info .ws.
however in the future there will be mamy letters ie.houston.
and when you start looking at the spelling of todays younger generation its awful. this is where i think the problem will come in.
and this is why i think there will be a problem implementing these future tlds.not everybody relies on search.
another point of contention and thought is many of the .coms do not provide the correct content aligment. so when someone types in latinos.com theres no revelent info on latinos..therefore the searcher is forced to use google.this is mainly domainers fault
not supplying the correct content to match the domain.
what i do see as a possible solution is if domainers unite to implement the correct content aligmnet to the correct domain.i mean like every domain out there.this will combat the implementation of alien tlds.
and who uses this strategy? insurance cos..you are required to purchase insurance period.all patents on medicene you need the medicene you buy the pill.opec…remenber the price of gas in the 70s?
another example which really catches my eyes..is the 400k march of all latinos with no, i mean no violence as a quite demostartion in the us. i think this was really really powerful..a quiet aligment of forces.
and what this suggests is what schwartz stated before domainers need to unite or other forces will take over domainers position.
therefore a quite internal alignment among every domainer out there is required to beat back alien forces.
“what this suggests is what schwartz stated before domainers need to unite or other forces will take over domainers position.”
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“other forces” like new software can not easily be stopped
DNS is not required to operate The.Internet (at least The.Real.Internet)
One approach will be to install new {Nodes} in high-traffic WIFI Hot.Spots to provide people their first contact (entry) to a New Internet
The next generation of kids can have a lot of fun building the New Internet and make a lot of money. ICANN and ISOC have captured the Internet most people are forced to use. They get their cut of the action (up front) and live very well.
domainers have no chance against The.Establishment
I thought I am the Domain Jester!!!
anyway Pool dot com is just another useless “BullS’ website- I prefer to use Godaddy.
the end of .com era is near
welcome to the
.Co era and the right of dot era.
I’d take “stuff.com” over “.stuff” any day. Costs of mgmt and maintenance on .stuff would make it a liability, and who’d want a .stuff name any way?
Would I rather own pizza.com or .pizza ? Actually after thinking about this for a couple of minutes I have an unequivocal opinion on it. I would MUCH rather own .pizza
I think after I sold newyorkcity.pizza newyork.pizza ny.pizza nyc.pizza to get my money back I would sell chicago.pizza and buy a new car. Id franchise out things like all UK cities to UK.pizza and so on, for other countries worldwide.
Although there is no doubt that the owner of pizza.com would also be sitting very very happy, by the time I was selling hicksville.pizza (for possibly more than hicksvillepizza.com) I think I’d be doing quite ok thankyouverymuch.