Startup Applies For 307 GTLDs 239
itwbennett writes "Startup Donuts has set its sights on being a domain-name registry. With $100 million in venture capital in its pocket, Donuts has applied for 307 of the most generic of generic top-level domains. The new domains will be targeted toward specific services, said Jon Nevett, a cofounder and vice president of corporate affairs at Donuts. For example, the .tickets domain would be where Web users could expect to go to buy event tickets. 'There will be more names geared toward what consumers are looking for,' Nevett said."
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AOL Keywords (Score:5, Insightful)
Everything old comes back it seems. Why does this look exactly like AOL Keywords reborn?
We know nobody will be bothering registering subdomains on these turds. It will just be 'tickets' resold to the highest bidder.
Can we short them yet? (Score:5, Insightful)
> For example, the .tickets domain would be where Web users could expect to go to buy event tickets.
I regularly start with a TLD and work backwards when I'm looking for things, rather than searching Google...
*facepalm*
No one memorizes domains anymore (Score:5, Insightful)
I've seen less-computer-literate people type in the entire URL into google (e.g. open google, and type in cnn.com/search to go to CNN's website)
Re:AOL Keywords (Score:5, Insightful)
Specific TLDs = Phisher's paradise (Score:5, Insightful)
What's wrong with just having
Re:No one memorizes domains anymore (Score:4, Insightful)
Yep. In order to access her yahoo mail, my girlfriend still brings up a browser with google as the home page, then types in Yahoo Mail. And she's not the only one. I die a little every time I see that.
The tech savvy people use bookmarks - or anything more complex than that. The tech illiterate people just punch in the site into a search engine, and then click on the first result. Both approaches make the approach of this company completely useless.
Re:A records (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:AOL Keywords (Score:4, Insightful)
I think it's a stupid idea as much as the next poster here, but I really think this is going to play a part in the future. Imagine typing only "google" into the address bar and getting google. Tickets could take you to ticketmaster. It won't be ticketmaster.tickets, it will just be tickets, with a recirect to ticketmaster.com. It's like taking out the www. "www.google.com" becomes "google.com" becomes "google". It also is "exclusive". The barrier to entry is rather high for a non-large organization (100K + yearly fees IIRC, which I may not) It would create a divide between the haves and have nots. The havenots get stuck with putting
The parent nailed it though. Keywords are back baby!
Re:A records (Score:5, Insightful)
!netcom :-)
Really these domains are useless. Someone in some registrar, somewhere, is going to make a killing, by selling something that decreases in value, with every additional TLD. The businees will quickly dry up, thereafter.
I will be filtering them, confidently from lookups on my nets. Any of these "TLDs" will also have a regular .com or .org, anyway. They will be located through search, and noone will bother typing any of them - ever.
I hope they do not start to put limit on the Net (Score:4, Insightful)
What I am afraid is, after ICANN granted the ".tickets" GTLD, someone will find a way to insist that if you want to sell tickets, any kind of tickets, online, you have to sell 'em through one of those ".tickets" domains
My sincere hope is that nobody would do that. But then, when big money is involved, who knows ?
Re:No one memorizes domains anymore (Score:5, Insightful)
my girlfriend still brings up a browser with google as the home page, then types in Yahoo Mail. And she's not the only one. I die a little every time I see that.
It's not actually a dumb thing to do. Of course, if you have bookmarked a site, you use that. But if it's not your PC and you want a page with some degree of security -- mail, banking, Amazon, etc -- if you just type in the URL, you have the risk of making a typo and hitting a phishing site. If you type the URL into Google, the top link is usually what you intended to type, even if you made such a mistake. If the site is malware, you'll usually see indications of that in the links too.
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