In order for the net to grow it seems sensible that new TLDs must be added.
A business person may think twice about starting an online sales organization if
the only name remaining is "jhsajh873.com" But how do you avoid the pandemonium and
rush to new domains? Do you think speculators who have invested tens of millions
registering domains will quietly sit on the sidelines as "joe businessman" humms
and haws over whether a domain is right for him? How do you fairly allocate responsibility
of dolling out registrations to the countless new registrars? The .web extention
(one of my personal favorites) has been selling advance registrations for years.
At webtld.com, speculators have taken the best names in that popular extention (trademarks
and all). How will I get a .INFO or .NOM name? Will I have to get a wristband
or sleep on the sidewalk in front of my Registrars office to be the first in line?
Will the Registrars have to get wristbands and sleep outside the offices of ICANN
to be the exclusive registrar of a new TLD or will all registrars simultaneously
offer all names at the same time (quite an undertaking). What about those speculators
buying .web names now? Will they be entitled to keep their names? They didn't buy
them from an ICANN approved registrar-- So the web needs a new extention... here
is the answer:
1) Implementing no new TLD's is too politically dangerous, as there
is now a palpable albiet unfounded sense that "all the good ones are gone" There
are plenty of .nets and .orgs available, but people want a .com and and because they're
to late, they want a better .com
2)Give the people what they want. Add the popular
TLDs mentioned repeatedly and more... I want my children to be able to buy .COOL
and .WOW and .CLOTHES and .VACATIONS tens of thousands of them. The net result
will be the same. The quick and the clever will buy the best of those extentions
and the rest of us will be wondering how we missed out.