Slate: www.ThoseNewDomainNames.AreForSuckers
“Soon you’ll be able to buy any top-level domain you want: .yourname, .america, .whatever. Don’t do it.”
I disagree with some of their statements, such that domain names don’t matter much anymore, that domain name length doesn’t matter, that people will find you on search engines no matter what your domain, or that cybersquatting is no longer a problem, however that having been said, they also bring up some good points about why we don’t need more TLDs. The media still clearly fails to understand the power of a good domain, however it’s nice to see they understand the insanity of bringing out more TLDs.
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July 8th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Then slate dot com should go to msn dto com/////articles see who can find his damn articles.
He knows s-hit
If it is not that impt, why is his boss microsoft spending so much money on search engine?
July 8th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
As I suspected the article was written by Slate’s technology editor. And as I’ve said for the umpteenth time, 99% of techies know nothing about marketing, but they keep insisting they do. They don’t.
July 8th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
There are millions of web sites - pick any 10 random words from the dictionary and you will find at least one - whose existence simply adds to the dead weight of the web. They are meaningless click-traps designed to garner the owner a few cents per click when someone foolishly enters a word-dot-com instead of a search term. And if you give up on your reallyneatblog.com and assume the domain name will disappear when you don’t renew it? Surprise? Its now serving up p*n!s enlargement kits from servers in Qingdao or malware out of Bucharest to anyone following anyone who previously thought they were linking to you.
The results we see from the free domain background checker at http://siteriver.com/domaintest.php have been surprising - more than one innocent-sounding expired domain name up for auction had hosted porn. But if you didn’t check the Internet Wayback Machine you would have thought it was just fine. Or it might be blocked by OpenDNS - so the domain would have been invisible to anyone using OpenDNS at their workplace or home.
The problem is that domain names are today’s version of patent medicine. Don’t worry about the contents - its the catchy name that will mean success.
If a property owner in a town had several vacant lots full of trash, abandoned junk, and drug dealers, his neighbors could demand he clean those lots up and make them available for development. If he just piled the trash higher the local government would be free to condemn to property as a public nuisance. Of domains are truly real estate, we need to start enforcing some real zoning laws rather than just allowing the mess to spread even further by allowing more TLDs.