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[Ed30]

Resales are utterly irrelevant.

If the ordinary man in the street is sitting infront of his pc looking for info on something he's going to type in .com/net/org. Simple as that. You think developed .info names will all become purely information sites - of course not. Big companies will redirect them to their .com and others will put up porn and gambling sites. There will be a few tourist info, travel info sites, for example, but that's where it's limitation lies.

 

[Tee]

Well, Brazil has a lot of potential.

 

[Ed30]

They make good coffee

 

[Tee]

Thats correct! Information is everything so of course you will have porn, commerce and everything else - maybe even some nice educational sites even. People hear .info and think free information. Hardly. Its all about money. Actually, this impartial soundingness of .info is part of what makes it so cool. It doesn't have to be used like this. It'' s not restricted. It's the ultimate selling vehicle.

Typeinnage is based on what people know and people can begin to know .info just like they know .com. It will require advertising by corporates and in other areas and that may happen in time.


Regardless of what we say here, the reality, whatever it is, is going to happen.

Good luck to all!

 

[morel]

Good luck Tee

As you pointed out, it's anyone's guess what the internet will be like in 5 years. The virtual landscape is always changing. The more foresight you have, the more money you are going to make.

 

[DryHeat]

I’ve tried to be realistic and objective in my analysis and opinion. At the end, I feel that .INFO (or for that matter other new tlds) would either take a long time (5-10 years) or would probably never catch up to the overall popularity and usage of all pervasive .com. Having said that, however, I do strongly feel that with passing time, greater awareness and increasing maturity of the web as a medium, there would be a steady increase in the inclination and desire towards using a relevant tld in concordance with the content of the website. It is in this context that I see .INFO surpassing .com in many situations in terms of its relevance and appropriateness. For instance, its already pretty obvious that using .com with “Cancer”, “Diabetes”, is a gross mismatch. The same can be said to a lesser extent about many other contexts. In contrast, its an obvious objective realization that there’re in fact very few contexts in which .INFO is felt to be mismatch. At the same time, its also true that many contexts where .INFO is the best match happen to be non-commercial in nature. So at the end, it seems that .INFO (and probably other new tlds) will become well-known, sought after and hence valuable. And, yes there would be situations/contexts where a .INFO would be so suitable that it’d command higher valuation/price than a .com.

 

[morel]

I foresee a time when all TLDS will be eliminated.

www.anything.anything
www.computer.programs
www.ratrace.themovie
www.pablo.picasso
www.web.hosting

etc.

 

[dkny]

.Com doesnt mean anything as an abbreviation that is commonly known. What? Commercial? Probably the single most unused abbreviation of all time.

it doesn't matter how it is used, it's the marketing and branding that really matter. Nobody care what coke means, but they know what the brand is.

.COM is popular because it is the first most recognized extension for company and internet. Almost all of MNC (Multi-National Companies), big, middium-size, or even small companies use .COM. This is important to create customer awareness. So, no doubt that .COM will be the biggest in the next 10 years.

I can see Tee's point about .INFO and he's right that .INFO is make sense for european countries. People associates .com with U.S. company because the huge internet users are here, the internet started from here. .INFO could be the next catch for European to distinguish themselves from U.S. if they start using it.

So, back to my first paragraph, it doesn't matter if .INFO was designed for information web site, but if many european companies start using it, it may become the next wave. Nobody knows.

If I knew that .com would generate huge cash, I'd have registered sex.com in 1992 when I started using Internet.

 

[lreh83]

Originally posted by Tee

.Com doesnt mean anything as an abbreviation that is commonly known. What? Commercial? Probably the single most unused abbreviation of all time.

The single most unused abbreviation of all time? Are you ignoring the millions of companies that have paid $billions for promoting their .coms? The fact remains that com is the most widely used and recognised.

 

[GiantDomains]

Originally posted by lreh83


The single most unused abbreviation of all time? Are you ignoring the millions of companies that have paid $billions for promoting their .coms? The fact remains that com is the most widely used and recognised.

Tee seems to want to believe .info will take over .com, or already has. Maybe he has 1000's of .infos and cant sell them, so he's trying to pump up the extension!!!

 

[DomeBase]

Folks definately have different perspectives on TLDs. For those of you who have not seen the results -- there was a poll of DNForum members on the relative value of TLDs as an investment (comparing current price to future returns) with over 60 participating members -- here it is --

http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4810&highlight=investment

 

[Tee]

Thats true, .com is the most widely used. I said .com has branded meaning - meaning it grew up wth the birth of the commercial internet - and that it is very strong obviously. I was referring to doberry's comments about .com meaning commercial and .info meaning information. .Com really means "the internet", an extremely strong meaning, the com abbreviation is a hardly used or known abbreviation for commercial. My only point with that was that information is a far more encompassing subject than "commercial" anyway as it includes the commercial - its intertwined. .Info can work with way more than just free information sites. Information, and the direction it pushes in terms of dollars spent, is the single most valuable thing there is.

.info has non branded built in strength because the abbreviation is widely understood as information, and in many languages and countries. It doesn't need corporate dollars to brand as meaning information. Its already there. However, it does need dollars, in the form of high profile resales (important because it creates awareness and speculative sales and more awareness) and use by corporates and startups and general webmasters so people know it exists. It needs promotion, and in all likely hood, that will happen/is happening. And when that does, when all is said and done, I think info will do very well. It will be known, it will be typed-in because its intuitive and easy to remember especially on an information heavy medium. Most people use the internet to check email or do research of some sort - to gain information on a subject (often making purchases based on this information). Information is the soul of the internet in a sense.

.Info may never be as strong as .com in all areas but I think it will be a very strong second and in some cases better than .com. In any case, imho, I think it is a far better extension than .com.

Good luck!

 

[Drewbert]

With new Internet users, .info might become a natural.

But the existing base are used to typing .com and will continue to do so for quite some time.

Loads of net/org/bizinfo domains lose traffic to their .com counterparts due to this.

If you want ALL the traffic, get the .com version.