How will the new domain types influence the industry?

[Durete]

<div class="bbWrapper">Hello fellow fastlaners/wannabe fastlaners.<br /> <br /> It looks like that they&#039;ve released a whole lot of new domain types such as .info .fitness .Company .center .tips and so forth.<br /> <br /> Do you think they&#039;re any worth?<br /> Do you think that they will influence the industry/market?<br /> Or will they just be useless endings as the .com will still be the only one counting for commercial purposes?<br /> <br /> I find it quite interesting but I do not know enough (anything) about these kind of things.</div>

 

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[BeDoHave]

<div class="bbWrapper">Personally I think .com will always be king.</div>

 

[theag]

<div class="bbWrapper">Useless</div>

 

[Silverhawk851]

<div class="bbWrapper">Just a marketing motive from domain companies to make more $</div>

 

[SBS.95]

<div class="bbWrapper">I think .info has been around for years now. Not sure about the others.<br /> <br /> The thing about the more specialized domains is that they only have a few really important and desirable spaces.<br /> <br /> Like if you are in the health &amp; fitness niche and get &quot;workout.fitness&quot; then that&#039;s huge. But beyond the really broad names, it&#039;s not helpful. If your company name is &quot;xyzsupplements&quot; than &quot;xyzsupplements.com&quot; is still going to be a superior name to &quot;xyzsupplements.fitness&quot;. <br /> <br /> .com is still the easier to remember, then .net, and after that none are really useful.</div>

 

[MendeGames]

<div class="bbWrapper">I agree with above, .com will always be king, I have yet to see a major website with one of those domain extensions.</div>

 

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[Durete]

<div class="bbWrapper">Thank you for your thoughts guys <img src="/community/imgs/emoticons/em-smile2.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /><br /> <br /> I personally could see it work, but only if every site would start using the &quot;domains for their type of site&quot;.</div>

 

[The Autobahn]

<div class="bbWrapper">i would only buy .com or specific country domain type.</div>

 

[Supercar]

<div class="bbWrapper">If XYZ.company or XYZ.net put out an ad then some of their intended traffic will benefit the XYZ.com company, but not vice versa.</div>

 

[Polarbeans]

<div class="bbWrapper">If you have a site that is .com today.. Say apple.com, and then you can register apple.phone and direct the traffic from .phone to .com like it&#039;s done with .net etc.<br /> <br /> But I think it&#039;s too early to pick any niche names for eg. a .food site. But if your plan is to build a large domain catalog, then jump on some broad names.<br /> <br /> Remember that the Internet is only about 15 years old (comercial-wise) so imagine 15 years ahead if the development to in the same pace as now.</div>

 

[csalvato]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 27537" data-quote="rwiman" data-source="post: 426287" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=426287" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-426287">rwiman said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Remember that the Internet is only about 15 years old (comercial-wise) so imagine 15 years ahead if the development to in the same pace as now. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> Just for clarification, the commercial internet is over 30 years old now..<br /> <br /> The new domains aren&#039;t anything to worry about -- there has been a big push by domain registrars and startups to register other top-level domains for over a decade (with .co, .us, .net, .org, .info, etc.) <br /> <br /> But if you are branding a company that you want people to come back to over-and-over again, the public has the widespread notion that all domains are .com...so registering anything else will handicap you in terms of branding.<br /> <br /> If you drive most of your traffic with paid ads or SEO, though, you can get away with a different top-level domain until you can afford to buy a good .com that is consistent with your brand (like MJ did with limos.com)</div>

 

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