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Hello.
I find that many are not bothered much with the new gTLDs. Scanning through the pages here in UKBF, its interesting to read that many perceive them as evil profiteering scheme by registrars and some seem to believe that they will not have any impact on the internet... a hyped up fad that will soon go away. Perhaps these responses were because these new gTLDs are not meant for the people of our generation. A couple of months back I wrote a short snippet elsewhere.. Just want share it here and get the views and responses from the nice people here in UKBF..... best wishes & thanks.
"Every fifteen, twenty years or so a new generation emerges to shape the world we live in. Gen-X & Gen-Y webshapers of the world overwhelmed us with plenty of awesome .coms or similar universal gTLDs or ccTLDs based sites/project. I hold the belief that the newgTLDs are for the new Gen-Z & Gen-Α to continue shaping the internet landscape with inventive new ideas, apps, sites and much more.
We the Gen-X and Gen-Y of the world have grown up having a set notion that .com or .co.uk is king. The Gen-Z, or what the fine thinkaquanauts at Google defined as Gen-C, have not ingrained themselves with this perceived notion . This generation that thrive on creation, curation, connection and community view domain names as nothing significant and does not connects any prestige to it. Using domain name as branding strategy are unimportant to them. They view a somain name as nothing more than just an entry point. Their reliance on plausible references, peers views, search engine and scannable objects makes knowing or memorizing addesses relatively unimportant. There is no necessity for easily memorized or catchy domain names. In their super accelerated paced world a domain name that instantly described or define its content rules.
The ever connected Gen-Z have just entered the workforce and some are in super places of internet creation such as Stamford, Princeton and MIT and probably working on some super projects in their dorm rooms ready to take on the world soon. Some are probably just hanging around somewhere and working on or stumbled upon an idea that will rock the world. These are the projects that will bump the newgTLDs to new unprecedented heights and probably prompt more newgtLds being delegated.
As internet practitioners our refusal to unlearn what we believe to be true and to drop the ego or deep feeling we have towards the gTLD of the 80s and current ccTLDs and our continued insistance that defining the internet with the string is much superior to defining the internet with the dot will one day make us irrelevant. Everything that we know or at times preached and pitched to clients about the internet such as how to choose a good domain name will have to be rewritten."
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I find that many are not bothered much with the new gTLDs. Scanning through the pages here in UKBF, its interesting to read that many perceive them as evil profiteering scheme by registrars and some seem to believe that they will not have any impact on the internet... a hyped up fad that will soon go away. Perhaps these responses were because these new gTLDs are not meant for the people of our generation. A couple of months back I wrote a short snippet elsewhere.. Just want share it here and get the views and responses from the nice people here in UKBF..... best wishes & thanks.
"Every fifteen, twenty years or so a new generation emerges to shape the world we live in. Gen-X & Gen-Y webshapers of the world overwhelmed us with plenty of awesome .coms or similar universal gTLDs or ccTLDs based sites/project. I hold the belief that the newgTLDs are for the new Gen-Z & Gen-Α to continue shaping the internet landscape with inventive new ideas, apps, sites and much more.
We the Gen-X and Gen-Y of the world have grown up having a set notion that .com or .co.uk is king. The Gen-Z, or what the fine thinkaquanauts at Google defined as Gen-C, have not ingrained themselves with this perceived notion . This generation that thrive on creation, curation, connection and community view domain names as nothing significant and does not connects any prestige to it. Using domain name as branding strategy are unimportant to them. They view a somain name as nothing more than just an entry point. Their reliance on plausible references, peers views, search engine and scannable objects makes knowing or memorizing addesses relatively unimportant. There is no necessity for easily memorized or catchy domain names. In their super accelerated paced world a domain name that instantly described or define its content rules.
The ever connected Gen-Z have just entered the workforce and some are in super places of internet creation such as Stamford, Princeton and MIT and probably working on some super projects in their dorm rooms ready to take on the world soon. Some are probably just hanging around somewhere and working on or stumbled upon an idea that will rock the world. These are the projects that will bump the newgTLDs to new unprecedented heights and probably prompt more newgtLds being delegated.
As internet practitioners our refusal to unlearn what we believe to be true and to drop the ego or deep feeling we have towards the gTLD of the 80s and current ccTLDs and our continued insistance that defining the internet with the string is much superior to defining the internet with the dot will one day make us irrelevant. Everything that we know or at times preached and pitched to clients about the internet such as how to choose a good domain name will have to be rewritten."
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