All New CommentMILK Version 1.0A Pondering Cow Wonders Possible New Domains?
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So have we all heard the news?
Long could be the day’s of just simply using .com, .net, .org, .ca, etc.
Soon our internet day’s may consists of new domains like: .hotel, .sex…
Wait?… JC are you sure you just said .sex?
We certainly did!
If ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned names and Numbers) approves, well much like the song we are listening too ‘Everything will change’.
What’s currently happening is that ICANN is having meetings in Paris and they are going to vote on two key proposals:
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1st: Allow domains that do not use Latin Characters, Chinese, Arabic or Cyrillic letters.
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2nd: Allow domains that use any type of letter or number combo up to 64 characters.
So let’s say they approve this, well it just opens our options up completely. It is believed however that the most popular one that users will go after will be .sex. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see about that.
Hmm we wonder if we should change our domain name, you know what about something like:
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johncow.cowpattie
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johncow.pasture
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johncow.moo
Actually you know what, we think we’ll just stick to johncow.com. 
ICANN is expected to make a decision today June 26th 2008, so who knows maybe we will begin seeing an entire new generation of URLS. We guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
You can read more about it at: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/25/domain.names/index.html
So what does everybody think?
UPDATE!
Well the ICANN group has decided to ‘relax’ the web naming rules.
Now we won’t be able to just choose a new style of domain, what ICANN wants users to do is too register for the new extension and provide a viable reason for it as well.
There are also a few more hurdles that have to be finished, but by the first quarter of 2009, individuals and companies should be able to begin registering for new domains.
If you want to read more about ICANN’s decision, you can here.
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Wow, that is really interesting. It’s like the internet 2.0. Might make things messy, in a sense. Different types of domains everywhere. Then throw subdomains in there, wow…
I’ll be watching to see how it turns out.
Propose a .cow and move to john.cow
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This is just a crazy idea if you ask me.
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Are you serious? Even though this opens many possibility’s do we really need that.
I mean, I have a hard time remember website URLs as is. This will only complicate things worse. I dunno what to think of this.
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lol no we are not changing our domain… just thinking out loud
Holy cow. This will seriously cause some confusion. It’s already hard to remember it it’s .com or .net or .biz or .tv even I manage to remember the website name!
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The one I would prefer is .xxx or .sex and force those type of sites to use those domains. At least that way, I won’t get blasted with things I don’t want to view if I happen to forget a website such as whitehouse . gov and accidently type whitehorse . com.
Other than that, I agree it seems like a nightmare for off-page marketing and people would potentially have to buy extra domains and have redirects to make sure people get to the right page.
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So is it that you just don’t like adult sites? Maybe your domain should be jumbocdratesblahblahblah.money so that nobody has a chance in heck of finding it? The problem is, what qualifies as a dot com if you require certain business types to use a specific TLD? Why would whitehouse.gov get to use .com when it clearly is government related?
See what I mean? I appreciate you not wanting to stumble upon adult sites, but that is the whole point of this thing… getting people to your site that don’t necessarily know if they will like it or not?
Yes, personally I don’t like Adult sites. My point was though that somebody shouldn’t be fooled or tricked into the site. For a time, whitehouse [dot] com was an adult site (not sure if it is anymore). If you accidently typed .com instead of .gov you ended up on an adult site. I’m sure the folks who acquired the .com planned on that. And there are also plenty of examples of misspellings of popular kids sites that lead to an adult site. That shouldn’t be allowed to happen.
Historically, you had .com, .gov, .org, .edu. The latter three were reserved for and only given to the appropriate entities. It would be a lot easier to reserve .xxx for adult sites. But of course, many adult sites don’t care about being found ledgimately.
As to our domain, we picked it long before people were picking domains based on keywords. jumbocdrates would have actually been better. But as it is, Jumbo CD Investments is our company name. lol
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i really hope this won’t go trhough… it would bring caos!
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My questions :
Whether it will prompt google to do away with the boost it gives to ‘.com’ when it comes to rankings.
If the general public will become more accepting of non ‘.com’ domains (i.e. more ready to trust and buy from them). If so how long will it take.
Note : A cyrillic ‘COM’ is different to a latin ‘COM’ but looks exactly the same. Now that could be an interesting can of worms
I just love the johncow.moo, maybe I can get a xaviermedia.moo then?
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Tis is the stupiest thing I have every heard! I would hate to be any company that cared about branding and and buying all the domains that related to their brand.
Consider:
disney.film, disney.movie, disney.porn, disney.park, disney.whateveryoucanimagine
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.stupid is my first pick, fuck they just want more money!
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If most Wordpress users started using a dot.blog TLD you may not be keen to stick with a dot com. I can foresee this all becoming messy as people jump on the bandwagon and choose names only to find that others in their niche have opted for a different one, which leaves them out of searches for that particular name. Domain name sellers will be happy though - they will be singing all the way to their dot banks.
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Not sure what to make of this decision. Seems like it has a great deal of potential both good and bad. But I do have to thank you because if not for this posting I wouldn’t have thought to check out my domain names and realized that 3 of them are set to expire! Maybe I should stop sending the notifications from Name Cheap to /dev/null
Why do you need the .* extension? It would be more logical to type: http://www.JohnCow
and enter
Who cares?
Well,the .ws extension is still available. I remember when it first came out…I thought it was going to replace the .com extension plus it had a nice affiliate program in order to further bolster its desired position of extension dominance.
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Well, I’ve read that the application fee for one of these “customized” domain names starts at $100,000, so there won’t be as many of them as we might think. The price alone makes an unfair playing field for large and small businesses on the internet.
http://bigblog.com/domain_names/icann-opens-up-top-level-domain-restrictions-1481106068.html
Maybe over time, the price will come down (remember, calculators used to cost hundreds of dollars)