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grandad
05-05-2008, 10:48 AM
Came across this one today and wondered if other commercial websites were using the .ws extension - know any?

http://www.onecall.ws/

Nick Charlton
05-05-2008, 12:27 PM
From what I have seen it is a bit of a flop in terms of commercial sites.

I don't know of any personally and have only come across link/ad farms on .ws TLD's. That is only what I have only seen, so I wouldn't take that as a general representation.

I would hardly see it as a replacement for any of the others, nor even touch it IMO. .com / .net / .org / .co.uk etc, etc are far more well known.

Nick

grandad
05-05-2008, 12:51 PM
My thinking too for commercial domains, however with so few options easily available I guess people will try to get the suitable domain in any extension.

Nick Charlton
05-05-2008, 12:55 PM
Yes, exactly.

The "main" ones will soon be filled to the point that only cryptic domains are left. Its a shame really.

The only real way around this is to have some more commercially useable TLD's show up soon.

Nick

stub
05-05-2008, 08:16 PM
If the new ICANN boss has his way, we are going to be flooded with new domain .tld's in the next couple of years.