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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
there are already a number of .whatever's that people could use, yet the majority don't and sales for .com outnumber everything else by a huge margin. i have a vested interest in .com but i really don't see these new tld's taking much of the market. the people who would only pay $100 (or nothing) for a domain might go for it. otherwise, i just don't see it. all these tld's are the same story all over again, all the best ones held back and auctioned off, leaving nothing much of quality left. not to mention the general public won't even know much about it and added with the fact that there are so many coming out at once, its going to be information overload and i think that will result in people just ignoring it.
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Again big companies shelling out big bucks on names are few and far between. Your ordinary business owner isn't going to think twice about setting up their website on a google business in a box domain such as .go. Just look at how many have used bellsouths shitty website services in the past. As far as what site they go to I like to watch peoples habits and the majority don't even know how to type a domain into the browser so they are left with google or whatever's suggestion. In fact I've found most non tech savvy people get rather annoyed when you try to get them to type-in a name. They aren't going to think twice about visiting a .go domain when it has a powerhouse such as google behind it. I love me some .com but the majority of my consistant income over most of those years was from alt tlds (primarily .info). My better names have generally sat unsold due to pricing and I'm finding myself more and more lowering my expectations on those.