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Gartner on New Generic Top Level Domains

• Comment posted Aug 16, 2008 6:26 pm PDT — by David Goldstein
  True John. The aliens may really be out there waiting to come and get us. And those scheming buggers they are going to come just as .com is about to lose its role, in about the year 2378… Or the…

• Comment posted Aug 16, 2008 6:07 pm PDT — by David Goldstein
  As I was travelling on the train today through Germany I drank my Bionade, the label entirely in Germany. But was TLD do they promote? Well, .com of course. And when one types in bionade.de, as soon as you click…

• Comment posted Aug 14, 2008 7:51 am PDT — by David Goldstein
  I have a feeling there are two or even three debates going on here. The original point made by Gartner was they expected "'classic' TLDs, particularly '.com,' to continue to overwhelmingly dominate the domain name marketplace." So what SMEs do…

• Comment posted Aug 13, 2008 4:55 pm PDT — by David Goldstein
  Patrick, I also know that plenty of companies defensively register their ccTLD names for their brands and name. It goes both ways. And while you give some examples, there are others such as IBM that when you type in ibm.ccTLD,…

• Comment posted Aug 13, 2008 3:11 pm PDT — by David Goldstein
  Sorry John, but while you have provided stats, I don't see they prove anything. I could provide stats on the sale prices of domain names that show what people pay big money for and this what shows demand. But then…

• Comment posted Aug 13, 2008 2:23 pm PDT — by David Goldstein
  I'm still trying to work out what the number of registrations in Taiwan, Ireland, or any other ccTLD has to do with the debate over whether ccTLDs are more popular than gTLDs. It's pointless to use individual ccTLD statistics. What…

• Comment posted Aug 08, 2008 2:29 pm PDT — by David Goldstein
  John, How many of your .eu websites, especially those for larger companies that cross borders, did and did not redirect to another domain name such as .com? You miss the point. A larger company whose business crosses borders will want…

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2008 10:07 pm PDT — by David Goldstein
  Oh, and why do you think most people register domain names in new TLDs? Check out how many .eu or .asia domain names are actually used. They are directed to the .com name mostly, or another TLD. I know the…

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2008 9:40 pm PDT — by David Goldstein
  No John. It's funny how .com domain name sales around the world sell for far far far higher prices than any other TLD. So no, I still see no evidence of you being right. Sure, people in individual countries use…

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2008 4:37 pm PDT — by David Goldstein
  Patrick and John are wrong. Sorry guys, but what percentage of large companies/organisations/anything around the world, or any company that operates outside of their home country, would not use a .com or other gTLD name? The answer will be a…

• Comment posted Jul 12, 2008 10:13 pm PDT — by David Goldstein
  Patrick, The report doesn't totally miss the mark but rather quite accurate. .com isn't confined to the US but is a generic TLD used all around the world, including in every European country. And almost every German company who wants…