[At-Large] Interesting article on new domain demand

Carlton Samuels carlton.samuels at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 21:46:35 UTC 2012


Hmmmmmm, another nail in the fabric driving me to  the inevitable
conclusion!

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On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:

> With The Domain Space Only Growing By 17 Million A Year, Where Will All The
> Registrations For New gTLD’s Come
> From?<
> http://www.thedomains.com/2012/07/12/with-the-domain-space-only-growing-by-17-million-a-year-where-will-all-the-registrations-for-new-gtlds-come-from/
> >
>
> Finally, someone does the math and discovers(!) that the gTLD rush is
> simply too many TLDs chasing too few registrants.
>
> And that's not counting the likely effect of Google, which I'd bet will be
> eventually giving second-level domains away for free.
>
> The author, not wanting to totally turn off his audience, suggests that
> "new gTLD’s investments must be viewed as a long term investment"
>
> And then, likely, not even that.
>
> - Evan
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