ABC evening news has a story on ICANN plan to release an unlimited amount of extensions called “.AnythingGoes”.
The first line from the story: “Is This The Beginning Of The End For .Com’s?”
You can watch the whole 1:28 second piece
The piece seems to come back around at the end to boost up .Com’s after all concluding:
“How is anyone ever going to find you if they can’t remember your address”
Thanks to Scott Ross for the heads up.
This is actually a video from 2008. You’ll notice that the interviewee is speculating on costs toward the end.
….funny how the debate about new TLDs is timeless, though.
This will be the first of many. Dopey questions from the friends outside of the business will follow 🙂
Just so everyone knows the answer……after 1997, .coms will be worthless. Everyone told me so. Been telling me so since before that. Let me look at the trend line. I can’t see where they went down. Oh yeah, they were ALL wrong. Confusion just adds value to .com. The more .whatevers, the more Manhattan is worth. I mean .com
@Rick.
Exactly.
I watched the ABC video and it’s a actually a great promo for dotCom.
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juts wait to see all the useless TLDs vanish like the .name etc.
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There is actually one thing that can outperform .coms. That is no tld at all.
Shoes
Games
etc
The last statement in the video
Q: “How is anyone ever going to find you if they don’t know the address”
A: You better own the dot com!
What a stupid piece of journalism.
They type in AOL.com so goes to show you how stupid ABC news is.
Also, did you see the computer that guy was working on, I think that’s about ten years old.
ZERO credibility for ABC news.
New tlds are great for dot com. Sure the newer people will buy them but only because they are cheaper. The “real” businesses and the people with money will always spend for the dot com. That will never change. End of story
Sorry Rick.. but now if the .anything is approved why would someone spend on toys.com a few million if for a lot less he can be .toys ??
This is in addition to the fact that then he can have any domain he wants under the main umbrella/brand of toys.
Sorry, Moriel.
What will really happen in examples like yours is this:
TV watchers / radio listeners / etc see / hear a site like kids.toys advertised . . . and then some 25-75% of them proceed to try to find that site / company by visiting kidstoys.com.
Ooops!
.com is just to ingrained into our culture now, it’s secound nature to use that prefix after the dot.
Country Codes are the way to go and will soon be the most desirable names to have. “.com” is too general and too OLD so younger generation will dislike all the .com in near future.
Well at least that’s my prediction!!! I hope I get it right.
The ignorant and their followers.
whoops. I meant the folks the articles is about. Not my friend on this forum.
Michael …
Although oddly, no one seems to have noticed Andrew Alleman’s opening comment in this topic, his clarification post is 100% correct. This video first aired in June 2008, as I clarified in a follow-up message sent shortly after the original. You must’ve missed it.
The video was mistakenly pegged “March 10” on an ABCNews.com page I had browsed yesterday morning, March 11. And in the afterglow of last week’s ICANT fiesta in Nairobi, “Dot Anything Goes” seemed a parallel story angle. The content of the story was incidental. What caught my attention was the high profile coverage given the global domain industry on ABC’s signature evening newscast.
Notwithstanding the date-stamp on the video, the tell I should have immediately questioned was George Stephanopoulos anchoring the newscast, rather than Diane Sawyer. Instead, I assumed he was sitting-in for her. My bad.
Props to Andrew “Sherlock” Allemann for quickly sourcing and clarifying the correct broadcast date.
Country code domains are the future, it’s called localization which the internet is most definitely headed for, “the YellowPages model is a perfect example”. Plus, local governments need to maintain control so they will concentrate hard on this, as we know they’ve already started implementing localization with Google and Yahoo..
I’d go as far to say that it won’t be long before .US domains become more prevalent in the US than .COM ..
Next 5 years!
For US .com is king and will stay king. .US is not the option here but will play some role as an alternative extension. ccTLDs play and will play major role everywhere outside the US – that’s the fact. So to all .com focused domainers – .com is king in the US but there are really other countries out there where .com is just as popular as .biz is in the US.
Why is Domaining Still So US Focused?
http://danieldryzek.com/2010/03/08/why-is-domaining-still-so-us-focused/
@ Steve M
“TV watchers / radio listeners / etc see / hear a site like kids.toys advertised . . . and then some 25-75% of them proceed to try to find that site / company by visiting kidstoys.com.”
actually the most likely to visit would be kids.toys.com. owners of the .com for any new tld will win BIG by monetizing subdomains. i could not be more positive
in fact I am going to write a blog post on why right now, look for the trackback
Well, yeah, the .com is CURRENTLY unstoppable. But wait five years. It may not have been an issue back in 1997, but the whole new generation coming of age in 2010 are used to social networking, and more net savvy. The under 25 crowd are those who very easily double-check and remember if a website is a .tv or a .com or a .org or a .co.uk, etc… It is those who are in the demographic of their parents who are less likely to remember if something is .com or not and default to it. This is a fact which has been studied and is available on a very well-known and respected web marketing website.
@E.David
>It is those who are in the demographic of their parents
>who are less likely to remember if something is .com or not
That’s cold, dude.
Go to your room!
Sort of intresting that one of the broadest and deepest companies in the domain space uses the .NET extention prominently…. Oversee.NET
Keep in mind, were on the InterNET and not the InterCom….. just throw’in it out there !