Can .sex (or the new gTLDs) finally dethrone .com?
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.com is so 90′s! Or that is what the advocates of .sex top level domain would say once .sex becomes fully implemented.ICANN’s opening up of domain name extensions to anything imaginable was surely going to revolutionize the domaining world; and approval of the .sex gTLD is set to spark a domain name boom. Expansion of the short list of the current domain names, such as, .com, org, etc, will allow for any possibilities… from generic extensions, such as .food, to steamy names, such as .sex.
ICANN has spent a fortune on materializing this expansion program, therefore, do not expect the new gTLDs to cost anything less than a fortune to yourself. Recent estimates put the fees for obtaining the new gTLDs to around $100,000. These high initial figures will allow ICANN to recoup its costs in a short time.
Trademark Issues?
Trademark domain TLDs, such as, .coke, .pepsi, etc will be bought and owned by the companies, however, more generic names, such as, .car, .beer, etc, will be put under the hammer; a scenario that will most probably create a bidding war to ICANN’s advantage.
Over to you…
Do you think .com be finally dethroned? Please post your comments.
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June 15, 2009 pm30 8:00 pm
Personally I think some of the proposed extensions are a joke, especially those that only brands will have. Also, if ICANN introduce ‘.car’ and ‘.beer’ and similar extensions, it would, in my opinion, leave the domain world in ruins. No one would ever be able to remember all the different extensions, which would leave to massive losses of type in traffic and also great confusion.
That said, the idea of a ‘.sex’ or ‘.xxx’ would be great, especially if the browsers added in a plugin where you couldn’t access those extensions. That’d be great for parental control and that sort of thing
Simon | Teenius´s last blog ..3 Steps To A Successful Interview
June 15, 2009 pm30 8:30 pm
Thanks for the reply, Simon. Yes, too many extensions will make ICANNs regulation work more difficult. It can be chaotic!
June 15, 2009 pm30 8:57 pm
I only hope that somebody wouldn’t malign my brand image by registering a .sex extension to my domain name (minus com) LOL
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June 16, 2009 pm30 10:15 am
The only solution, then, is….ummm…go and grab all those extensions imaginable
But seriously thinking, the high price tag of owning gTLDs will surely deter people from copyright infringements.
June 18, 2009 pm30 12:15 pm
Hey, nice post, very well written. You should blog more about this.
June 18, 2009 pm30 9:29 pm
Your posts are always really interesting, and I actually get kind of sucked in. Who new domain names were so interesting? As far as .sex goes, I think it would be great for separating the adult content from the general commercial content.
I agree with Simon, however, in that having .pepsi, .coke, .papajohns or whatever would cause chaos. There’s really no reason for them to have brand name extensions, except the novelty value. There are only so many extensions we can make before people get fed up with trying to remember things.
Corey Freeman @ Outstanding Writer´s last blog ..How to Lose Blog Readers (And Your Girlfriend)
June 19, 2009 pm30 5:37 pm
Wow, Corey Freeman is back on my blog. Thanks for the comment; I always appreciate your insightful comments that liven up the discussion.
I also agree with you and Simon on the confusion all these gTLDs would cause. The current system is working fine; why mend something when it ain’t broken? ICANN could have done better, whereby, instead of making the generic TLDs public, they could have just kept a closed system, in which individuals and organizations could apply for their brandable or trademark TLDs and ICANN approve it on a case by case basis.
June 19, 2009 pm30 7:14 pm
Of course I’m back. How could I forget about my favorite (only) domain blogger? Haha.
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June 19, 2009 pm30 8:55 pm
Thanks Corey and glad I manage to inspire you in one way or another
June 20, 2009 pm30 3:10 am
Hey Forsaken,
I will say NO!
Even my gran or teachers in school who are planning to retire knows in their mind that internet is only about.com. If you tell them a url, they will just record it as .com
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June 20, 2009 pm30 10:37 am
Hey YingHang, thanks for commenting and welcome to my blog
I also agree with your comment, .com has become a “type-in” TLD…in fact, many people just know the internet by the name .com
June 22, 2009 pm30 7:31 am
It would be awesome if they had .sex or .xxx or something like that as Teenius said. Porn sites would go crazy over them and it would allow people to know for sure that domains with extensions like that are pornographic sites.
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June 24, 2009 pm30 10:19 pm
I think this extension(.sex) is a bad extension for domain and huminity.
June 25, 2009 pm30 4:06 pm
Its a very well written post. I don’t have much knowledge about this topic. this post and its comments are very useful for me.
July 2, 2009 pm30 7:23 am
I bet that such domains will be expensive somehow. Look for the new but as for ‘.sex’ or ‘.xxx’ it’s good idea to list them under one TLD so they can be easily blocked for the sake of parental controling.
It’s scary how such content is spreading not only via spamming comments (blogs/forums) but via social networks too (twitter for example)
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July 3, 2009 pm30 10:28 pm
A .sex domain? I think that this kind of domain will never become approved by ICANN.
September 2, 2009 pm30 8:11 am
I don’t think it will, it’s very widely used and can be applied to any business.
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September 20, 2009 pm30 10:45 am
I don´t think so. The .sex domains are not interesting for business people.