New domain names

.arts .travel etc......

[Andrew Thomas]

Ive recently registered from new.net, domain names ending in .travel .arts etc......

Are these names worth purchasing for the future, or a waist of money, as browsers need a plug-in to access these names..

thanks for any advice/comments

[toolman]

>>Are these names worth purchasing for the future, or a waist of money, as browsers need a plug-in to access these names..

As for the future...who knows....but as for now the collective usability consensus gives it two thumbs down.

[annefromuk]

Not all Browsers need a plugin, sometimes the ISP has enabled new.net in their DNS servers (partner ISP's)

However personaly I still only trust domains given the go-ahead from ICANN (even though they can sometimes take forever).

Also don't foget that you will not have an email address with those domains, it's purely Web only

On a final note, I wander what will happen when any of the new.net top level domains get the offical go-ahead, will people with plugins and people without view diferent websites? or will all the new.net customers lose their domain?

[liman]

i would rather put money into a ok .com, .net, .info, .biz, than get the better .art.

.com is still king by far.

[rogerd]

I've got a few good new.net domains approaching their one-year renewal... I'm thinking of hanging on to a few of the "best" and letting the rest go. Is anyone actually building sites on these domains yet? I tried a few likely ones, and got mostly "under construction" generic pages, one or two doorway-type domains, & that's about it...

[msr986]

One big disadvantage to the new.net is listing in the SE's.

You cannot submit a new.net URL. If you own "myname.shop" for example, you must submit as "myname.shop.new.net"

Yuch!

[EliteWeb]

I 'enabled' my browser for New.Net services, its slow resolving and making those names work on my machine.

[seofan]

The majority of people are not heavily internet oriented. They generally think that AOL is the Internet, dot com's are all fortune 1000 companies, and they can't remember to look up type-ins using dot net and dot org TLDs. Dot gov is not often remembered either. It will be a slow adaptation curve for the general internet population to remember to include new TLDs outside of the coms, nets, orgs and govs as a common practice.

As for domains as an investment? The domain panic seems to be quelled. Valuations for domain "properties" have been significantly reduced. Investing in a good name alone is currently not a very profitable (or popular) business decision. Investing in a good name with solid plans to design, develop and build documented traffic to the site in order to sell it as a fully-functional business has been the emerging profitable "domain-related" business practice over the past 11 months. That puts the responsibility of site development, marketing, branding, traffic building and all related expenses on the original domain owner.

[Tapolyai]

I think there is something to be said for comfort in consistency.

Let's face it most "web surfers" couldn't tell one web site from an other if it bit them on the finger! Let me remind you that some of the search phrases include "www.yahoo.com", "www.hotmail.com", etc.

So, .com, .net, .org, .gov are it. Anything else, general public will look suspiciously. Even .us is looked at with strange eyes! Yes, of course, countries outside the US do include their . country domain in the accepted league.

Maybe in 5 to 10 years, but by that time who knows how this whole thing look like...

[seofan]

...some of the search phrases include "www.yahoo.com", "www.hotmail.com", etc.

<g> Thanks for reminding me of that. That is too rich. For the most part, people that really understand domains and domain usage make up a very small portion of the internet community.

When the internet seemed to be the "poor business person's paradise on a level playing field", the single most important emphasis was on what cool, flashy, catchy dot com domain name you could get.

That doesn't mean that average users know where to type it in.....even still. (Asking a person for their URL and them giving me their email address still gets me).

In essence, the net had been "dot com branded" in the minds of average users. It takes a pretty significant bankroll to market "non-dot coms". So much for the poor-person's level playing field.

[rogerd]

Having observed non-technical types at the keyboard, I've concluded one reason people "search" for yahoo.com is because they don't distinguish between the address box at the top of their browser and the search box they are presented with at Google, Altavista, AOL, or whatever their browser uses for a start page. If you ask why they are searching instead of just typing it in, they say things like, "oh, I can do it in either place?" or "Huh? What difference does it make?"

I noticed a few moderately high page rank domains in Google with new.net suffixes. Clearly, no major player would avoid a dot com, but a few people seem to be out there doing stuff.