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.butcher, .baker, .electrics etc

Do you think they'll take off or are people too set in the mindset of com and .co.uk etc

I've registered pre interest for a few clients but most aren't too interested at the moment but I guess that will change if they do start taking off.

A lot will depend on pricing as well, most people begrudge paying a tenner for a.com lol.
 
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Great thread and one where I am very much curious myself.

I guess it will depend quite a lot on how they're sold and if search engines decide to take them into account - or at least see the myth that they are gain traction. I suspect the market will be very much split between those focusing on local branding (eg - .london) where the demand will be there, those where it might actually matter (eg .law) and then the vast amount of new domains where early adopters will scoop a couple but adoption will be an incremental thing.

To a degree, price will play its part but I doubt it will be the main factor as domain names demand tends to be less price sensitive because, to a degree, most are not perceived as perfect substitutes and there's always the personal issue wanting a particular one, so we're talking about a very heterogeneous product.

Also, for those new to the issue, some background on this can be found here and here.
 
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General feedback that I've had so far is that most people want to wait and see how it develops. It will take a while to settle down before we get an idea of much initial take up there has been

Unfortunately I think we'll see a rise in the number of scam companies promising either search engine miracles with the new extensions or duping people into large up front payments to secure their dream extension particularly if they do take off
 
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ryedale said:
I've registered pre interest for a few clients but most aren't too interested at the moment but I guess that will change if they do start taking off.
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I've pre-registered about three dozen but when the time comes I will probably dump them all and just keep one or two.

There are some suffixes that can make some quite amusing names and one of the domains that I have pre-registered is loadsa.money but I probably won't take it up
 
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Remember .tel, .me, .mobi?

Always lots of excitement when something like this comes along but then a few month later it all does down and everything goes back to normal.

I suppose I could register interest in mysite.extension but mtsite.com is already bringing the pennies so I can't see the point. You could argue that it's about branding but as you can't pass off someone buying mysite.thing can't do much with it anyway.
 
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fisicx said:
Remember .tel, .me, .mobi?

Always lots of excitement when something like this comes along but then a few month later it all does down and everything goes back to normal.

I suppose I could register interest in mysite.extension but mtsite.com is already bringing the pennies so I can't see the point. You could argue that it's about branding but as you can't pass off someone buying mysite.thing can't do much with it anyway.
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I can see your point although I think the relevance in some tld's to people's business types or locations will see a bigger take up than that period of new extensions. I've had a couple of solicitor clients very interested in .law, particuarly for a new site I'm doing at the moment

For the small trader though, I do think cost will be important, if they are coming in at £30 + pa then it will put a lot off if they can't see real benefits over .co.uk
 
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If you googled solicitor in Durham would you click on bloggs-solicitors.co.uk or perkins-solicitors.law?

In time they may become more trusted but I suspect people will stick with the .co.uk and .com websites when they search for a long while yet.
 
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Trust is a factor.. much as .biz these days is associated with scams or tacky businesses, it will need high profile firms to start using them I think to gain that trust factor
 
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I personally hate the idea of the new extensions. The current ones are enough to be fair and it's very easy to find someones website but with the new extensions it will bring a new difficulty.
 
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The .solicitor or .builder domain may look cool but the large majority of web users won't have a clue what it means or that is exists.

You can have every domain extension in the land BUT there needs to be a fundamental change in the way that the general users of the web react to domains, my dad never clicks on a link that doesn't end in .com or .co.uk as those are the ones he knows.

If I told him to type in tom.builder he would probably put .co.uk at the end
 
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Faevilangel said:
The .solicitor or .builder domain may look cool but the large majority of web users won't have a clue what it means or that is exists.

You can have every domain extension in the land BUT there needs to be a fundamental change in the way that the general users of the web react to domains, my dad never clicks on a link that doesn't end in .com or .co.uk as those are the ones he knows.

If I told him to type in tom.builder he would probably put .co.uk at the end
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Couldn't agree more. It will take a good number of years for the general population to adapt to the change.
 
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Especially if you see the name of a site somewhere and try and remember it when you get home but you can't remember what the new extension is..

It will be interesting to see how hard the major registrars keep pushing it if take up is poor
 
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well the .co and others just died an ugly death when take up was low, can't remember any adverts etc asking me to sign up for one.

The domains are only being introduced for one reason, money. The registrars will push them for a little while they are new and make a $^&* load of money and then just let them die off like the other 20+ domain extensions that don't get used much.
 
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I wonder how the location specific domains will affect things .london looks as though it might be worth pursuing for businesses in the capital.
 
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Athos_LSA said:
I wonder how the location specific domains will affect things .london looks as though it might be worth pursuing for businesses in the capital.
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My opinion is the same, how many people are going to know that the .london domain exists and will type it in? Very few is the answer.

These new domain extensions are never likely to take off imho and it's just a cash cow for the domain registrars.
 
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I think if google starts using local domains as a barometer of how effective a domain is in a certain locale then they will be taken up, otherwise you're probably right - just a registrar cash cow.
 
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I have a few on pre-order. Currently:

.email
.systems
.network
.ltd
.limited

and maybe a couple of others. I forget now. But these seem like reasonable domain extensions for my business. I can always just redirect them to the .com domain name and just use them on advertising materials.
 
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I bought a domain called the thediet.pro in a spur of the moment action, i am still to make any website out of it, i remember when .co first came out, i wanted to buy tes.co but somebody now has that.
 
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This is something i've though about. There are some good extensions however they may get overseen as I dont think many of them can be taken seriously .wang and .sucks are so unprofessional its un-real.
 
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All the new domain tlds will be blacklisted on my networks.

So I have .com and .co.uk for all my businesses - plus .ltd.uk now I need to pay through the nose to get .ltd and .limited for each to prevent someone impersonating my businesses?

I hope many others will take similar action to ensure the new domain tlds fail and are withdrawn!

There are so many now it dilutes all recognition of .com, .co.uk, .net and .org etc.

Some seem quite good like .london however, I know that 80% of registrations will be people/businesses that are not in London, probably not even in the UK! I think all eyes are on to see how Google deals with the new tlds and whether a .london domain would improve local searches relative to london or have no real advantage
 
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MRLogodesign said:
I bought a domain called the thediet.pro in a spur of the moment action, i am still to make any website out of it, i remember when .co first came out, i wanted to buy tes.co but somebody now has that.
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It's probably good that you didn't buy it because Tesco just won a UDRP and the previous owner was ordered to give it to Tesca.
 
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MattZS said:
There are some good extensions however they may get overseen as I dont think many of them can be taken seriously .wang and .sucks are so unprofessional its un-real.
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I think that .sucks will be quite popular with disgruntled people who want to have a go at someone. I have pre-ordered factoring.sucks just to make sure that no-one with a perceived axe to grind gets hold of it and I wouldn't mind betting that most major companies will buy their own name .sucks just to take it out of the marketplace
 
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HI

the only one I think will take interest is .uk (dropping .co.) All of these TLDs available are a bit crazy and just another way of selling TLDs to protect brands!

Still.. I will be registering a few good domains to make some blogs on .hosting :-)
 
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