No Image

Kevin Ohashi

Web Developer
Joined on July 16, 2004
Total Post Views: 14,555

About

Featured Blogs

Why New TLDs Don’t Change a Thing

I have a heard a lot lately about ICANN unanimously voting in favor or relaxing top level domain rules and had a few people come to me and ask 'how does that affect what you do?' The short answer is, it won't; at least not for a long time and here is why... There might be some huge potential gain if all shoe companies got .shoes and branded it, but someone would have to manage it and each would have to spend money to brand .shoes to consumers. Adidas gets adidas.shoes but spends nothing to brand it and lets Nike pay to brand .shoes and Reebok to brand it as well and leech. So instead of cartel like behavior (which is hard to maintain), we fall back into .com more

Topic Interests

New TLDsDomain NamesRegistry ServicesICANNSpamEmailDNSLawCybercrimeInternet GovernanceDomain ManagementUDRPPolicy & RegulationCoronavirusCensorship

Recent Comments

What's Next for Ethos
What's Next for Dot-Org
.ORG and Change

Popular Posts

Why New TLDs Don’t Change a Thing