...others disagree, arguing that a confusing jumble of new Internet suffixes will further enhance the value of the common ".com" suffix. -article here [news.cnet.com]
Any comments on the future of "com" ?
Jaguar_Joe
7:10 pm on Oct 16, 2000 (gmt 0)
I think '.com' will always carry a certain cachet. It's like a telephone phone number ending in '000.' It might belong to some guy running a business out of an unheated basement, but the phone number tends to make us think it belongs to a business 'of substance.'
Mike_Mackin
7:24 pm on Oct 16, 2000 (gmt 0)
What Jaguar_Joe said
DaveAtIFG
9:52 pm on Oct 16, 2000 (gmt 0)
Joe is right on target, as usual, TV and radio ads use "dotcom" as an everyday word now, synonymous with an online web biz. It'll soon appear in dictionaries I suspect.
>certain cachet
The man knows how to turn a phrase, don't he? ;)
NFFC
10:01 pm on Oct 16, 2000 (gmt 0)
What Joe, Mike and Dave said...but do you think those .shop domains may just look that extra bit clickable on the SE results page?
rcjordan
10:15 pm on Oct 16, 2000 (gmt 0)
>"dotcom" as an everyday word No doubt about it, we've had dotcom drubbed into our subconsciousness (a fact which I bank on daily). But what about efforts like RealNames? Though somewhat pathetic now, there was a time....
DaveAtIFG
12:40 am on Oct 17, 2000 (gmt 0)
Another factor that's hard to gauge right now is, at the rate the existing "big gun dotcoms" are dropping, there may soon be a glut of real, desirable .com names available and the new .whatevers may not be much in demand for a long time to come...
Billythekid
2:48 am on Oct 19, 2000 (gmt 0)
<there may soon be a glut of real, desirable .com names available and...> Network Solutions will auction off said domains rather than return them to the pool.
