New Domain Names Coming in 2008

By the Betanews Staff | Published May 11, 2007, 12:08 PM

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said Thursday that new top-level domain names (TLDs) for general use could be live by summer of 2008, and invited public comment on procedures for creating the new domains - the first since 2000.

Since .info and .biz were established for general use in 2000, ICANN has only approved six regional and industry-specific domains, including .asia, .museum and .travel. While it did not offer specifics, ICANN said it would work to make the process smooth such that new TLDs can be created more quickly in the future. However, businesses have complained that more names leads to more cybersquatting, and pointed out that both .biz and .info have failed to take off in the marketplace.

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.com is where its at.. it will always be .com

People need to realize that a lot of traffic comes from random type-ins... people will go to Travel.com before they will type anything .travel

A few of my sites get an extra 1,000 uniques a day simply by people typing the name .com when looking for something.

It guess its good for the people with really good .com names.. the more crappy extensions they make.. the more my .com domain names go up in price.

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.waste of time would apply to at least 50% of all online content.

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66.4% of all comments quote arbitrary statistics!

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66.437% actually

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How about the fact that many (granted technically poorly designed) applications that use email as a form of validation only accept 3-character TLD's?

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.travel seems too long. People like short TLDs. Anything over three letters, and I start to get lazy...

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It's like being in a room with lots of people who have the same first name.

I've never been to, seen advertised, or even linked to a .travel site. Seriously, do you think Orbitz is going to start doing www.orbitz.travel as their main site? No. Why would they? This is just bureaucracy doing what they do best - working hard to justify their work.

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It's like being in a room with lots of people who have the same first name.

Fourth Bruce: Michael Baldwin, Bruce. Michael Baldwin, Bruce. Michael Baldwin, Bruce.

First Bruce: Is your name not Bruce?

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pointed out that both .biz and .info have failed to take off in the marketplace.

maybe because usually those domains tend to be associated with bad websites (malware, spyware, adware) ....

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