Domains are inefficiently priced -- small domain owners are the problem

Re:Domains are inefficiently priced -- small domain owners a... by dstein on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @04:36PM (#1615513)

The problem really only exists for the .com TLD. What really needs to happen is to deprecate .com entirely. ICANN should stop registering them, and all existing .com's should be migrated, or re-registered in their country of origin (.co.us, .co.ca etc). Each country can then decide on the restrictions of their .co domains. I would prefer .co domains to be of officially registered companies and trademarks. If you're not a business, then you don't need a .co.* plain and simple.

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Re:Domains are inefficiently priced -- small domain owners a... by bad_user on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @05:25PM (#1615661)

That's stupid simply because the Internet removes barriers and many companies operate on a global scale.

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Re:Domains are inefficiently priced -- small domain owners a... by dstein on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @06:35PM (#1615847)

It is trivial for a multinational corporation to register company.co.kr and company.co.us. If they don't really want to run separate websites one can redirect to the other.

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Re:Domains are inefficiently priced -- small domain owners a... by bad_user on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @07:05PM (#1615910)

Why would the physical location of a company matter if that company provides online services?

While trivial, it's not good marketing.

The only instance I see country TLDs as being actually useful is for localized versions of said sites ... Google already does it, but it's not like it is useful for an email address to end with "gmail.ru", quite the contrary.

A better suggestion would be to use custom TLDs based on some category your website fits into ... like ".fm" for radio, or ".info" for hosting your personal resume, or ".doc" for archives of documents, and so on.

Sure, people are very accustomed to .com domains, but who's to blame for that?

Also a brand is a brand ... say you have the luck of registering "google.nu" ... most likely Google can take it from you by force ;)

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Re:Domains are inefficiently priced -- small domain owners a... by vaksel on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @05:47PM (#1615720)

ooh I want to bid on some stuff...http://ebay.com...404? WTF

your plan would pretty much eliminate 99% of websites.

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Re:Domains are inefficiently priced -- small domain owners a... by dstein on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @06:34PM (#1615841)

There of course would be a period of migration.

Ebay would tell ICANN redirct ebay.com to ebay.co.us indefinitely. And maybe at some point in the future .com is entirely eliminated.

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