Has anyone thought about what will happen in 5 years wont we run out of .com names. Post your opinion

Originally posted by tphpaul
Has anyone thought about what will happen in 5 years wont we run out of .com names. Post your opinion

No we will have .com names still, but it will be fewer then we have now. Reason is we will always have people who do not want the names that they picked before. Or people forget to pay, ect. Then we have the names that people will never want.

I wonder what other tld's they will have also

Originally posted by tphpaul
I wonder what other tld's they will have also

Not sure they will most likely have all kinda. From stupid ones to good ones. Though the main ones you want are .com I would say.

Originally posted by tphpaul
Has anyone thought about what will happen in 5 years wont we run out of .com names. Post your opinion Well, I can only relay a simple fact: this is what folks said 5 years ago! :P And look where we are today!

your right!

At the moment there are 56,328,922 domains available . Any idea out of them how many are .com

I think .coms will be around and plentiful

There was a very interesting thread about this topic few months ago so search around and see if you can find that.

There are many that drop every day. We are a long time away from having no .com left

This-long-stupid-domain---will-still-be-available-in5years.com

There are so many ways to combine words, letters and numbers, I find it hard to believe that we will run out of .com options. People might not find what they want, true, but that happens even now. :)

How many characters can a domain name be? If I remember correctly, it can be 256 characters long.

Mind you, I'm tired, but I believe that leaves 1 LARGE AMOUNT of possibilities for domains. I highly doubt that all the combinations will ever be registered, simply because nobody wants them.

Personally, I like .net a lot. To me, it just says "Internet". I think people will also find new ways to use certain domain extensions. For example, look at .tv - this is a ccTLD and yet people are using it for television. Ironically enough, the country that this TLD was created for has a very poor population and probably not very many TV's :)

With the shear amount of money, advertising, promotion and branding that's gone into .com's I find it very hard to believe it will be replaced with something "better" any time soon.

So yes, I think .com's are hear to say and the future of them looks as good as it always has.

In terms of running out of names, I think that may become an issue at some point, well the GOOD names, but like any market there will always be supply and demand and it will become more of a real estate market for the good names rather than just registering brand new ones.

You got a good point

Originally posted by VanHost
How many characters can a domain name be? If I remember correctly, it can be 256 characters long.

It varies by TLD, but for .COM and .NET the maximum number of characters is 67, which in reality is 63 plus extension. I think it used to be 255, but that was quite some time ago. I wonder if anyone ever actually registered a 255 character domain...

I'm curious if some one actually has that would be interesting to find out

Originally posted by Priyanka
At the moment there are 56,328,922 domains available . Any idea out of them how many are .com

I'd be curious to know where you came up with this figure.

I'm almost 100% positive that number is ridiculously small.