No One Wants The Not-Coms

angkor points to this Siliconvalley.com article about companies not jumping for the newfangled TLDs like dot-biz. "This is delicious revenge for all the spam I've gotten reminding me to reserve new domain names now before they're all gone ... ." Besides the nice sound of "dot com," perhaps the restrictions surrounding the new official TLDs help to prevent them selling like hotcakes. The world won't be fair until the LED museum and similar sites are offered -- No, given! -- .museum addresses.

Comments

Lets just give everyone a number..

[PopeAlien]

.. How about an IP address, assigned at birth.. Thats where you can host your site. Of course you always have jealousy over the really cool IP numbers, but hey, No copyright problems.

Re:Lets just give everyone a number..

[tswinzig]

.. How about an IP address, assigned at birth.. Thats where you can host your site. Of course you always have jealousy over the really cool IP numbers, but hey, No copyright problems.

Yeah, but the real question is, do you assign one or two IP addresses to Siamese twins?

Re:Lets just give everyone a number..

[mini me]

How about an IP address, assigned at birth.. Thats where you can host your site. Of course you always have jealousy over the really cool IP numbers, but hey, No copyright problems.

Sounds good in theory, but if the doctors had it thier way, they'd lease you a DHCP address or even worse use PPPoE. Oh and you'd better not be listening for any conversations, you may only initiate them, or you will violate your TOS.

Re:Lets just give everyone a number..

[1010011010]

Give them a subnet

acronyms...gheez

[GutterBunny]

I'm going to put in for the .tld TLD

Re:acronyms...gheez

[Dr Caleb]

I've been dying for them to release ".dot".

"dot.dash.dot" are my initials in morse code.

Re:.com will be around for a long time to come

[Fat Casper]

So... .gov, .mil & .edu? :)

Re:just wait..

[k_187]

I was talking to my younger brother (14)about this(new TLDs, .tv, .shop ...) and his exact quote was "that's stupid, can't they just get .coms?" I think that says a lot.

"The Best Argument against democracy is a 5-minute talk with the average voter"-Churchill

Re:.biz does not properly portray a sersious busin

[nytes]

But then again, what person would ever go to a .bus ? :-)

Identity?

[dav0]

The thing that I don't understand is how existing companies can be expected to migrate to the new TLD's. When you've spent thousands of $$'s on creating an identity using .com, who's going to want to change it? Not many...

One of the bigger problems as I see it is companies being forced to buy their .biz equivalent, to stop others from having it. If I have a legitimate business at www.chair.com, but don;t want to shell out for chair.biz, what's stopping my competitor from buying it? All my brand name recognition is going to be helping the competition. Screw that! I hate being forced to do something I don't want. And don;t get me started on .museum...

When the script kiddies make the rules

[spruce]

there's sure to be .l33t and .H4X0r

New TLD for PORNO!

[dentar]

How about .cum?