ICANN anounces ten new TLD proposals

[namewaiter]

found this on cnn.com

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/20/new.domains.ap/index.html

jedi

 

[spietreser]

found this on cnn.com

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/20/new.domains.ap/index.html

jedi

Thanks for the link, jedi.

 

[adoptabledomains]

Here's a nice article explaining the background behind the .xxx proposal.

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5176620.html

 

[Digital Address]

Both good. Thanks for the links.

 

[unclewilco]

darn, need to raise the 45k "bond" for next time round ,anyone want to help me shout for ".shed"

cheers wilco

 

[spietreser]

darn, need to raise the 45k "bond" for next time round ,anyone want to help me shout for ".shed"

cheers wilco

:-D :-D :-D

 

[adoptabledomains]

darn, need to raise the 45k "bond" for next time round ,anyone want to help me shout for ".shed"

cheers wilco

Would .shed be for animals losing their fur?

:clown: :clown: :clown:

 

[hotdog_pk]

with honesty, I am gambling on a few .xxx domains as we speak.

there are a lot of great 2 letters left, however se.xxx is not available along with horny.xxx blonde.xxx and porn.xxx ... i am thinking of taking 5 of them, just for a risk investment

 

[Nexus]

with honesty, I am gambling on a few .xxx domains as we speak.

there are a lot of great 2 letters left, however se.xxx is not available along with horny.xxx blonde.xxx and porn.xxx ... i am thinking of taking 5 of them, just for a risk investment

S.C.R.E.W.E.D. I had a friend who thought New.net would be grandfathered into something. He's frustrated me over and over by showig me "their" numbers as a reason why his investment wasn't a waste of money. I'll still keep trying to get him to snap out of it. He'd sold off his dot-Com equivalents of some solid keywords, and was trying to nurse a little seller's remorse through the .xxx offering. DNJournal had a nice article on New.net's philosophy, and while they have a point... I think they should be concerned. People may easily start uninstalling that plug-in, and I don't think their numbers are all that impressive.

“We think it would be highly unlikely that a new registry or ICANN would introduce a new TLD that conflicts with one of ours given our massive resolution network, and the thousands of customers that are using our products, as well as growing support for our products from ICANN's own accredited registrars,” Sheehy said.

http://www.dnjournal.com/columns/cover120103.htm

He goes on to note his "numbers" as well, and I think there's a solid point about the "hole", but only so far. 'Cause, well...

~ Nexus

 

[adoptabledomains]

with honesty, I am gambling on a few .xxx domains as we speak.

there are a lot of great 2 letters left, however se.xxx is not available along with horny.xxx blonde.xxx and porn.xxx ... i am thinking of taking 5 of them, just for a risk investment

If you are gambling on new.net domains, I think you're taking a bad bet. I don't see any way new.net domains will be given any preference when and IF the real .xxx gets approved. Maybe new.net will go to the real registry and contract something out in bulk, but I certainly wouldn't bet on it. If they do, they'll have to do the same thing with .travel.

The only very slim outside chance I see would be to get new.net, start a site and register the domain with ending as a trademark to try to have trademark rights if the real one comes out. Although I've read that the USPTO does not consider the .tld as part of a trademark any more, so it may be futile.

good luck.

 

[sasquatch]

>>"Domain names will probably mean less and less," she said.

Expedia's Levine agreed: "Over time, maybe URLs will go away." <<

http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/07/19/icann.reax/index.html

 

[spietreser]

The discussion about New.Net's .xxx reminds me of the .biz TLD. A company named Pacific Root was offering these names many years before ICANN approved this TLD. They had clients who were using these domains and paying for them.

Did ICANN care? Nope... Will ICANN care about New.Net? You decide...

 

[namedropper]

I'm glad ICANN doesn't care about third party people trying to make their own domain extensions. I'd hate to have the official system hijacked by any old person who thinks they can just make it up themselves.

I wish ICANN would approve a .web that is brand new and has nothing to do with the dopes that started their own.

 

[lionheart]

This next round of New TLDs is just a continuation of the "Proof of Concept" process set up for the previous New TLDs. The biggest change that seems to have occurred is that ICANN has been pressurised towards a position where future registries will be granted the right to operate New TLDs if they meet an objective set of criteria (rather than the 'beauty contest" / who's friends with ICANN approach which resulted in ICANN's registrar buddies getting the .info cartel, for example).

ICANN is awaiting the official report of the New TLDs Evaluation Team, being headed up by Sebastien Bachollet and Miriam Shapiro. This is ear-marked for release "by September 2004" and after that the ICANN Board will have to determine just what criteria and processes will be set up to 'automate' the process of allowing new registries. Because this report has not yet been published (they've only recently been questioning me, as a consumer) these next sTLDs are being bunched with the previous ones as part of the original Proof of Concept.

From the point of view of members of this forum, a really interesting question will be what happens after that... because if potential registries from all round the world just have to meet specified technical criteria, and then sink or swim on commercial grounds, this could imply a significant expansion of the number of new TLDs in the years 2005 onwards. In this context, the ten sTLD applicants are smallfry.

If this were to happen, and 20, 30 or 50 new registries were to start operating in the next 3 to 5 years, especially new unsponsored TLDs as opposed to these limited sponsored ones, then it would be a bit like when East European countries used to mass produce postage stamps... the stamps became valueless to collectors because there were so many of them.

Would the outcome be a collapse of the market (because all generic names could be bought in 50 different alternatives) and in particular a collapse in the value of .info and .biz names? Or would it enhance the value of the market-leader .com as the single TLD which people instantly recognise in an ever-growing market-place of obscure-to-consumer domain endings?

The proposed round of new sTLDs are probably only the tip of the iceberg. ICANN is under growing pressure to open the floodgates.

Richard Henderson

 

[sasquatch]

Would the outcome be a collapse of the market (because all generic names could be bought in 50 different alternatives) and in particular a collapse in the value of .info and .biz names? Or would it enhance the value of the market-leader .com as the single TLD which people instantly recognise in an ever-growing market-place of obscure-to-consumer domain endings?

Probably both, but most likely the "market", and especially the international one, will be cheapened by the influx of all the different TLD's, and the domain names, even generic ones, will unquestionably loose value. The emerging "winners" will be those sites that are able to attract large audiences on the basis of their offered content and/or the marketing.

I personally have no fate in the future of the internet as a whole. What used to be free information superhighway in mid 90's, is slowly but surely turning into a plethora of big corporate monopoly & copycat content robbery & breeding ground for all sorts of world's crooks and their fruadulent activities... ...

 

[Steen]

I am so tired of generic extensions.

com, net, org and CC-TLDs is all we need imo.

 

[dtobias]

I am so tired of generic extensions.

com, net, org and CC-TLDs is all we need imo.

What about edu, gov, and mil? (They're just as old.)

 

[mole]

My gut feel tells me the .com namespace for good names has been decimated by too many PPCs, leaving things like fixmypcnow.com to the real entrepreneurs of the web who provide the real content.

Don't forget that a name is not so much as for "finding" things, but a means to remember how to come back to what you original found through, say, a search listing.

Quote
"Meg Smith of Harvard University's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society agreed.

"We're running out of good names. It is too complicated getting around the Internet," Smith said"

 

[RMF]

Whatever happened to webtld.com....?

RMF

 

[Temp]

.asia or .xxx