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New top level domain names
What are your thoughts on these new domains, e.g: name.photography, name.gallery, etc? Do you see this becoming popular, or having the same fate as 3rd level domains like: name.123.com, or name.photo.com? Discuss  Aug 28 14 03:31 am Link Dont waste your time. .com is the daddy. For prestige alone, it has to be .com Everything else is second rate. I founded a business that specialises in developement of internet technologies since 2004 so I have some expertise and experience. Please note that there are very technical reasons why you must stick to .com I wont get into this so I will keep this simple. Tim Berners Smith created the internet and domain names. At the start he only made .com. I asked about this years ago when I met him at a law & government event in the UK He said other names were introduced because of demand. In simple terms, by design the internet defaults to .com first then looks down the list so to speak. After .com comes .net then .info Everything else afterwards. Image and prestige is everything on the web. Aug 28 14 03:55 am Link So you don't think it can be a valuable part of branding? What about .co, seems to be hugely popular? I tend to be pleasantly surprised, seeing a non-.com, I guess .com is in such a global and frequent use, that it doesn't move me anymore. Aug 28 14 04:06 am Link Max Santini wrote: Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web, not the Internet. Aug 28 14 06:19 am Link .com, .org, .gov, and .net (edited) Back when I was a young'n that's all we had and we were damn glad to have em too. Aug 28 14 06:53 am Link Roy Hubbard wrote: Hmm, never thought of using those new tld's for projects and platforms, good luck! Aug 28 14 07:03 am Link T Brown wrote: Haha awww come on, age is only important for birthdays and senior discounts Aug 28 14 07:05 am Link Max Santini wrote: When I registered my art domain, .com was already taken years ago by a children's book company. Aug 28 14 07:08 am Link i think most are kinda stupid, but i can see a possible big advantage for google searches. if it were .photo instead of .photography i might go for a couple. seems like a money grab. Aug 28 14 07:11 am Link BeautybyGod wrote: You can get .photo Aug 28 14 07:16 am Link gregorygarecki.photography Not quite ready to make it the primary domain for my website, that's why it switches to .com once you hit it. I think it looks cool as fuck on a business card. I'm going to wait a year for people to get used to the idea that there are top domains other than .com and .net and then make .photography my primary domain. Aug 28 14 07:30 am Link RINALDI wrote: on godaddy it says 'coming soon'. and it seems some TLDs are a bit pricey. Aug 28 14 08:20 am Link You're 6 months late to the party, brah! https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=916612  Some of the ones I used I thought were fun and look cool in my email sig or on a biz card. Aug 28 14 08:53 am Link T Brown wrote: You probably hate(d) the idea of 10-digit dialing, too. Why do I need an area code?! Aug 28 14 08:58 am Link T Brown wrote: ...and we walked five miles to school with those four top level domains, uphill both ways, it was always over 100 degrees and in three feet of snow...with no shoes! But we had our .com, .org, .net and .gov...and we were happy back then, those were the good ole days! Aug 28 14 09:59 am Link Roy Hubbard wrote: Al Gore invented the Internet! Aug 28 14 10:01 am Link  .tv seems to be hot right now. Aug 28 14 10:13 am Link I've seen very few worthwhile sites that use anything other than .com, .org, etc. as their primary domain. Some use other domains (usually country TLDs) to shorten it (e.g. instagr.am) but they still have a primary .com address. I think the biggest problem will be people recognizing that a non-standard URL is actually a URL. I mean, if you saw briandiaz.photography on a bus ad driving by, would you think you could go to that address? If you saw briandiazphotography.com, you certainly would, but I think it will be a while before any of the expanded TLDs really catch on, and then, only a few will be well recognized. Aug 28 14 10:47 am Link Brian Diaz wrote: Good point! I also think many assume the dot is part of the design, whether on a business card or like you mentioned, in advertising. Aug 28 14 10:58 am Link It's also easier for automatic recognition of primary domains. Look at my post above. One URL is automatically linked. The other...well, it will take a lot of individual websites to update in order to get every new TLD to be turned into clickable links. Aug 28 14 11:24 am Link |
