April 1, 2011
6:12 p.m.
What benefits have consumers seen from .PRO, .TRAVEL, .AERO, and .JOBS? Be sure to keep in mind that, to several decimal places, no consumer has ever heard of them. Or from .BIZ and .INFO, for which awareness is still low but probably distinguishable from zero?
John, Whatever the success of the past new gTLDs, I don't understand the reasoning behind keeping COM/NET/ORG as the de facto gTLD registration space in perpetuity, blind to the ever increasing number of new Internet users. The logic behind the "let a thousand TLD blooms" meme from the earlier days of the ALAC was not that we needed a thousand TLDs but that markets would be better than committees at picking the expansion names. -- Bret