Originally Posted by crockett

With all the tens of dozens of useless TLDs, why is it you think nothing ever became mainstream outside of the .com?

I realize that the obvious .org, .net, .gov have their places and some countries have managed to have localized site become popular like .de , co.uk and so on, but overall not much success has come from TLD's outside of the .com for general usage.

Any thoughts on why no other TLD has been able to get on a level playing field with the .com? I mean not even .net is anywhere close and it's been around forever and was used by many ISP's for example in the early days of the internet but still nothing has ever even made a dent in the .com TLD status as top dog.