An open letter to web platforms about gTLD adoption

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7 points·mwilcox··4 comments

> But without your help, adoption rates will suffer. And if adoption rates suffer, the vast expansion of the internet namespace is all for naught.

That's the wrong attitude to take, I think.

Many of us would say that adding new TLDs is silly. In practice it looks like nothing more than a way for registrars to say to the owners of widgetr.com, that they now need to pay for widgetr.abc and widgetr.xyz, too.

But there is a better reason why the new TLDs should be recognized as such: because they are TLDs. Failing to recognize them as such is incorrect behavior.

I absolutely agree with your second point but your first point is pretty centred around your personal point of view. I, for one, don't see defensive registrations as a smart way of spending money. your costumers know that if you are a mail hosting provider you are most probably not trading under a .bike domain, so why bother blocking that name on every TLD no matter if it is relevant to your business or not.

We see new regs coming in that go nTLD only. new customer, finds an awesome .guru domain and wants to use it, instead, and that is important, a .com or a regional alternative. We would really like to make it easy for that customer to use that domain but seems like many just missed the whole topic.

IPv6 is the new Internet Protocol, but that isn't helping it get support (much, anyway).

I know it's a terrible attitude, but I read "if adoption rates suffer, the vast expansion of the internet namespace is all for naught" and my first thought was “...and I really don't have a problem with that." So if there are a lot more people like you and me, gTLD adoption may follow a curve more like IPv6.

Yeah seriously. It does just seem like another money grab.

The ole "create money from nothing" business model.

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