The game changer is really (a) the new generation of users that are coming through all the time. They are not brought up on ".com" they are brought
up on "co.uk", ".de" etc etc and thus are going to mbe more likely
to use those cctld's rather than .com (b) the late starting Countries ,like the
arab world, africa etc which again are more into their own cctlds. That
(c) the numerous new tld's that coming into play like say .me and others
That is why I see .com being less significant. It already has had an effect
on prices for the market I sell into. You cannot explain to someone
that knows nothing about domains that .com is the one to have ,because
they have never heard of it OR they do not see the benefits .
The continents make a difference because they are establishing their own
insulated internet and dont use .com
Anyway time will tell what happens to .com but my prediction is
it will become much less important, not more or even the same.
DG
Did you dream that?
Granted dot DE is dominant in Germany.
Dot RU is actually dominant in Russia but it is essentially a dead extension. It will be interesting to see whether IDN.com or cyrillic dot RF come to dominate.
Dot JP has only just bust through 1 Million, and a good number of those registrations will soon be rendered redundant.
Registrations in dot CN have exploded, but only in ASCII which they have been virtually giving away. Dot Com dominates the big traffic sites in India.
India is dot com big time.
The Arabic World seems to be years away from establishing and Pan-Arabic extension.
Oh, yes and then there are dot EU and dot Asia.
Give me a break!
id say we take control of the situation and put a strike to any new gTLDs. arent we the ones that create the market place?
No, the very idea is completely delusional.
