I was pleasantly surprised that Frank Schilling has resurrected his Seven Mile Blog.
Unfortunately, his outlook on the domain parking business is somewhat bleak. This could explain why he is taking offers on his portfolio.
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Domainer Michael Berkens has pointed out that the ICANN, a supposedly non-profit organization, is pushing for gTLDs because it is all about money.
Regardless of the motive, here are 3 reasons why gTLDs are doomed to fail.
1) .NET is a bellweather of TLD failure
The .NET domain has been around for decades now, but has very weak adoption in popular culture. When was the last time you heard of a .NET millionaire?
2) Only 2 or 3 Letter TLDs are acceptable
A popularly cited gTLD is Wolfgang Puck’s proposed .FOOD gTLD. He is an idiot thinking that this could possibly gain traction. .MOBI and .INFO have been rampantly pumped by domain registrars, but I have never EVER seen a .MOBI or .INFO in the top 10 of Google SERPS. There is something about 4 letter TLDs that makes them look straight up SPAMMY.
3) Internet users are too stupid
The .COM will always be paramount, because Internet users are shockingly stupid and resistant to change. Even if a Internet company develops a pristine web property like a widgets.FOOD, there will always be people typing in widgets.COM into the navbar… So even then, the company would be forced to acquire widgets.COM anyway…. So what was the point of building the site ona gTLD in the first place??!
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I just spotted a STOCK MARKET themed .COM domain on SnapNames that I believe has a market value in the low $xx,xxx ….
Can you get to it before me?
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Just picked up another mortgage themed .NET domain for $450 off SnapNames!
The domain is long and lacks “brandable” value, but it IS a Keyword Matched domain, and I intend to develop it to get all the SEO boost out of the domain as possible.
I expect it will be rather painless to make back the $450 investment on this domain.
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Today I was trying to goto BoingBoing to kill some time, and I typed in boingboing.COM and oops, I got a parking page. (I didn’t realize that BoingBoing is actually boingboing.NET)
But this was no ordinary parking page… This crappy-ass Network Solutions parking page had a PageRank 5! How often do you see THAT?
So I fired up my SEO back-links tool to see where the PR was coming from.
Wow! This domain was getting some killer link juice from really powerful sites, simply because they mistakenly linked to the .COM TLD instead of the .NET
And that’s not all. I fired up Compete to check out the traffic to boingboing.COM and wow, this dude gets massive traffic!
My question is… Can the rightful boingboing.NET trademark their brand and file a complaint with WIPO to get their domain back?
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