CentralNic.com announced today that are the back-end provider for 60 TLD applications.
Applicants include Generics, Community and .Brands applications from three continents.
Some of the new gTLD’s CentralNic’s clients have applied for are .XYZ, .College, .Now and .Africa.
Ben Crawford is the CEO of CentralNic.com and has appeared on many television new programs about new gTLD’s and has been quoted in numerous articles on the new gTLD program.
With all these new gLTDs coming up, memories of Ryan Seacrest on American Idol constantly having to repeat, “These are 1-866 numbers, not 1-800 numbers,” come to mind.
How many people (millions?) mistakenly dialed 1-800, anyway?
On a side-note, since the Internet is moving to a much more global audience every day, and since the U.S. only represents 5% of the world’s population, shouldn’t there be gTLDs in other languages?
Sure, good money will be made from those who buy into the hype being generated from all of this. But there are plenty of alternatives to .COM already. It’s not like someone can’t pick up a good name of their choice with an alternative extension. But, people don’t pick them up, mainly because they’re not .COM. Are the new gTLDs supposed to somehow invoke a different, more superior feeling?
If you see our post this morning there are 116 applications for IDN’s which are in other languages
Yeah, I saw that, and stand corrected in that regard.
The rest of my post still stands, though. What will happen 3-6 months from now after all the fuss dies down? (And the ‘fuss’ only seems to be among domainers, or others who wouldn’t classify themselves as domainers, but who may have some interest in what’s happening, like myself.) Getting the average Joe to know about much of any of this is going to take some doing / marketing / cash.