.coms will always be the top valued domains. .com has branding the new ones will take years to catch on.

at $150000-400000 a pop, how many are you gonna buy?

Btw, to all those who think new tld's mean new money, why don't you pick up some domains from other tld flops like .travel, .pro, .jobs, or the other 200 cc tlds out there?

im going to buy .cim for all the mistyped .com's ;)

Let's not get confused.
He probably referrs to the opportunity to register some prime domains in the new .tlds.

basically, Pepsi may pay that $100-$500k or whatever to get their own .PEPSI registry.
then they will just create a "www" domain meaning their adress will be www.www.pepsi.

Obviously they'll abandon the original "www" and brand themselfes as www.pepsi
However, in my opinion this would be pointless, so that won't happen anytime soon. (if ever).

but obviously some companies will try to get .sex, .music or .hotels domains and then there might be some opportunities for the small webmaster/domainer to secure some good domains in these new tld's. But I think the best domains in all the new TLD's will be auctioned anyway, so the small guy won't get anything good. If someone pays $100k-500k to ICANN to run a .whatever registry, he won't just let you buy the best domains for registration fee.

Actually this is a huge potential business. I won't do it on my own, but I'd be open to work with someone and open our own domain registry. Anyone interested? :winkwink:

I think ICANN grossly overestimates the intelligence of the average web surfer. I see this becoming very confusing for most and like some of you have already said, make the .com even more prestigious.

Let me see if I can poke a hole in your theory....

Everyone always talks about domains being Internet Real Estate, right? So imagine that I buy a piece of property right in the heart of the busiest intersection of downtown metropolis, lets call it ABC.COM. I get my property right in the heart of everything that is going on, there is shopping, nightlife, dinning, shows, entertainment....so my property is valuable, right?

Just like the the real estate world, many years later someone is going to go into the suburbs and build another property that will compete with mine. It will be a really nice piece of property, but it will be 30 miles from downtown Metropolis, we will call it ABC.TM.

Now, lets answer some questions..... Is ABC.TM worth money? Yes. Can ABC.TM be a good location for me? Yes. Will ABC.TM ever be as valuable as ABC.COM? Nope. Will ABC.TM ever decrease the value of my Metropolis real estate, ABC.COM? Not on your life. Property in the heart of the city will always retain its value...its the suburbs that are always playing catch up baseball.

Of course, this is only my personal opinion...yours may be different.


--T

surfers have been conditioned to type .com and that will always be.
invent a million tld's if you want, good luck trying to get traffic!
other than .com or maybe .net surfers don't know the other tld's exit, and they may even be afraid to click a link to something they don't understand.

so whoever has .sex for example - they can sell .sex domains ...?

you must buy sex.sex or you have nothing or is that nothing.sex or is it sex.nothing:error

have all the TLDs you want, it doesnt change the fact that the people and businesses that own te copyrights still wield the power.

Eventually, with the death of the browser, TLDs will become meaningliess, the ".com" or ".anything" will just be an extension (literally) of the overall brand. The value of generic non-branded URLs will diminish with time as the long tail power of the net is realized and brands will dominante all of economics.

For example, No joe-blow is going to be able sell .ebay domains, only Ebay will ever be able to own .ebay.

I just realized that ICANN has taxation powers - opening up TLDs means that copyright/trademark holders will basically have to fork over $X to protect their brands. So, Ebay HAS to buy the rights to .ebay, and it's the only company that can even do so. It's basically an internet tax on corporations.

.com is still strong,

I don't think it'll affect domain prices.

:2 cents: