Tuesday, November 22, 2011

ICANN Opens Domain Naming: Is The 'Dot Com' Boom Over?

ICANN Opens Domain Naming: Is The 'Dot Com' Boom Over?: "how effective -- or necessary -- they would be in the long run.

"In the early days of the internet, there was that first gold rush for domain names, because domain was quite important to finding things. Search capability was essential," Falzone explained. But these days, he posited, users are just as likely to use search engines like Google to find an individual or company, making domain names less important.

Others in the industry said the traditional domain name endings show little sign of going away. Kurt Gastrock, senior vice president of product at Network Solutions, a domain name registry and web hosting service, said that "the landscape has been dominated by .com extension since the existence of the commercial internet. And it still makes up half of the registrations.""

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