This domain thing is the biggest scam in history.

All those companies scrambling to buy the .us for their companies just to stop people starting websites with their company name with a different extension.

I have to take my hat off the the people behind it, i bet their fathers would have been excellent flower gardeners at one time.

.red
.green
.redgreen

whats next

.ny
.al
.fl
.tx
.this
.that

In Australia they went and made it .com.au and then some smarty made it .au.com, this has only confused the situation,

Personally I think .com is best what about you?

How long before .com runs out names with one word names?

I'm pretty sure all one word .com names are already gone. I know of none left, and just for kicks I've gone through entire spelling lists checking -- and that was over a year ago.

I voted .com - hands down.

I'm pretty sure all one word .com names are already gone

Just for the challenge, I found and registered 6 one word .com domains just a couple of months ago.

There could be a few left :)


Lats...

my favourite domain is neither

it is .org

Just for the challenge, I found and registered 6 one word .com domains just a couple of months ago.

There could be a few left
Cool, it'd be interesting to see how one word domains drop each day and how long it takes to snatch em up. It's a shame you can't get the complete gTLD database updated more than once per day.

Fair enough

but why .org?

Is that a personal preference, or does it come from a marketing point of veiw?

Finding a particular website is hard enough with some search engines, but combinations of extensions just adds to the confusion.

.com is the most known extension I would have thought.

Nic.


Originally posted by hostjet
my favourite domain is neither

it is .org

Originally posted by k9register
but why .org?
Because when you say it real fast it sounds like "dot orgy."

.com for sure... and moreso the more they keep coming up with new and improved domain extensions. With all hell breaking loose around them the .com, .net, and .org extensions just end up looking more stable. :)

Greg Moore

Originally posted by DizixCom
I'm pretty sure all one word .com names are already gone. I know of none left, and just for kicks I've gone through entire spelling lists checking -- and that was over a year ago.

Nope, there's still one word .coms left. Opening OED to a random page, I see at least two words -- feoffment and ferrimagnetic -- which aren't taken yet.

I totally agree with first post,
I also think if current owner
play this new extension game,
many more new extensions will come.

I for one, got sick of it and Trade Marked the heck out of company
main assets.
It is not even a question of money.


I do love OpenSRS with all me heart.
B.

My vote is for .com . Tested and true...

Guys,
I hate to break it to you, but .us domains are nothing new. They have been around for well over a decade now. They have just been deregulated. Up until now the .us has been a substitute for .edu or .gov when a name wasn't available. All they are doing is making an offering to the public. In fact, it's probably even an older system than .com
With domain transfers taking way to long as it is, do you really want to take your chances with something even older, and possibly slower than the current system? I'll sit back and see if the first round of suckers have problems before registering anything.us

but why .org?

it is just a personal preference, my very first website and the one that I am most passionate about is a non-profit website, where .org was the most appropriate extension.

Not everything on the net has to revolve around money.

a .org extension definitely does not have any adverse impact on placement in search engines.

I prefer .net the most. I just like the way it sounds [also, non commercial] and that people know it. I don't like .com except for on commercial sites. Actually, in order, the ones I like are:

.net
.org
.com
.se
.nu

I don't think I'd want any other extension. Heh.

.com over .us

The .us pushers are most likely using or hoping to use the patriotic wave that just went through the states for momentum.

Originally posted by sam.moses
I hate to break it to you, but .us domains are nothing new. They have been around for well over a decade now. They have just been deregulated. Up until now the .us has been a substitute for .edu or .gov when a name wasn't available. All they are doing is making an offering to the public. In fact, it's probably even an older system than .comThe initial ccTLDs, including .us, and gTLDs (.com, .net, .org) all came into being in 1985. The .us domains were never "a substitue for .edu or .gov," while some education-related or governmental entities may have chosen to use them -- in fact, they've always been available to the public.

Historically, .us names were assigned based on locality: name.county.state.us -- so an individual in Brooklyn might have, for example, joesmith.kings.ny.us... in some cases, the section often used for the county would indicate something else; for example I have a client in whose domain name is structured: organizationame.cog.ny.us -- the "cog" stands for "council of government." More commonly used is "lib," for library. State governmental bodies typically use "state," for example the New York Department of Motor Vehicles is at nydmv.state.ny.us.

A full description is in RFC 1480 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1480.html)

This naming system was managed by the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California. Names, as I said, were available to anyone in the US... at no charge. Free domain names!

Last year, the management of the .us ccTLD was transferred to NeuStar, Inc. The entire system has been reworked, with the elimination of the locality-based naming structure (while existing registrants will be able to keep using those names) in favor of one that allows registration of names at the second level, similar to .com or the other gTLDs.

The old system of "delegated subdomains," each with a manager, and the various "zone contacts" who worked essentially as volunteers, is being replaced by a more "modern" system of approved registrars. And the old system of reguesting nameserver changes and the like through emailed templates styled after the old InterNIC domain template is being replaced by whatever means those registrars put into place... meaning changes will be as easily and quickly made in .us as the are in .com.

And, of course, they'll no longer be free.

With domain transfers taking way to long as it is, do you really want to take your chances with something even older, and possibly slower than the current system?How long domain transfers take is dependant primarily on which registrar you use. Some are responsive, some aren't. Probably that will be the same with .us names, since you'll be choosing from for the most part the same group of registrars.

Personally, I first registered a .us name in 1992 and still have a few that I work with. It hasn't been uncommon to send an emailed nameserver request and then hear nothing for a couple of weeks. So the increased efficiency that the NeuStar contract will likely bring will be welcome, but I'm going to kind of miss the locality-based structure.