Gandi Bar - Liberalisation of the Internet - Special Report - Comments

Liberalisation of the Internet - Special Report - Daniel Bates

Daniel Bates — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:42:56 +0200

I agree with Barry on this and think that it will all fly right over the head of 90% of the "average" internet users who don't know what anything but a .com is and therefore be a giant waste of money for the small and medium sized business owners.

At the same time, the internet is getting a little crowded, it's harder to get a great domain name for sure. I think adding these domains will help clear up some of the clutter, but will also be a false hope to most. I'm in South Carolina and could have bought NameofMyTown.SC but didn't see the value in this. I think the same realization will be reached with .NYC and .lawyer

Liberalisation of the Internet - Special Report - Codesucker

Codesucker — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:56:11 +0200

Let Ghandi know that codesucker appreciates the post. He can't wait for his .nyc domain - thanks for explaining

All these new domains are going to start fresh in terms of backlinks and authority, search engines give lots of weight to a domains age - dotcoms are here to stay regardless imo

Liberalisation of the Internet - Special Report - Barry Leiba

Barry Leiba — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:09:40 +0200

We're looking at turning the Internet into one of those towns that has Maple Street, Maple Avenue, Maple Drive, Maple Lane, Maple Road, Maple Court, and Maple Way, and visitors can't find the Maple they're looking for. And those who'll benefit are those who'll make money by selling TLDs (and second-level domain names under TLDs they buy).

I've been on about this for some time; see these two blog posts, for example, from two years ago and one year ago, respectively:
http://staringatemptypages.blogspot...
http://staringatemptypages.blogspot...

And I had a conversation with Peter Dengate-Thrush about it at the last IETF meeting in San Francisco. He wants the market to decide.

The problem is that it'll be an artificial market, where businesses will feel they have to buy their names to protect themselves. Meanwhile, consumers will just rely on Google even more than they do now, and the domain names will, ironically, matter less than ever.

Liberalisation of the Internet - Special Report - Joe (Gandi)

Joe (Gandi) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:05:13 +0200

Hi mc,

Yes all those combinations are possible. It will mean you could have company.lawyer or just .company. In practice unless you're a very big company you may not want to go after .yourcompany, though global brands may well do this, e.g. Deloitte have already expressed an interest. But Deloitte probably won't be selling domains on the .deloitte extension, it is more likely to be used internally.

But the scope for a whole new landscape is indeed enormous!

Joe

Liberalisation of the Internet - Special Report - mc

mc — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:05:17 +0200

So it basically means that successful applicants (cost hundreds of thousands of dollars) will be allowed to manage/sell their own namespace.

Leaving the "political" implications aside, what will this do for URI structures? Will a lawyer buy mycompany.lawyer as well as .mycompany to put out mycompany.lawyer/services along with lawyer.mycompany/services or services.mycompany/lawyer to supplement mycompany.com/services?