Submitted by rafikd on Thu, 23 August 2007 - 01:19

a generic TLD must be really generic !

In few words, I would like to outline and stress that downfall of success of gTLD is tied to its "ability" to be clearly generic. I mean that .aero or .museum are so specific that these can only target a small market and so not enough profitable or sustnaible.
this issue can also occur for probable geoTLD because geoTLD can only target a particular geographical area.

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So .home .shop .guide .arts .city?

Submitted by carl.b on Thu, 23 August 2007 - 10:19.

So .home .shop .guide .mfr .inc .cia and the like might work? (where cia=company[spanish], for example)

Another possibility would be .web .file .forum .blog .wiki but then there's the risk of making the targets too narrow or too-closely tied to individual services that, like .bbs, are here today and obsoleted tomorrow by something else.

It may be educational to look at the way some of the individual country-codes seem to end up far from their original target. For instance, .as is moderately popular in some corner of Scandanavia where A/S is a limited company. The .nu domain gets to serve as .now or .new in a few places, .nude in others. And then there's .tv and .fm - with an audience for video and music files reaching far from Tuvalu.

Maybe there is a demand for .new .now .video and the like? Hard to say. I'm tempted to stick to the most generic, .home .guide .shop .inc might be possible but let's not create another .aero or .museum; .org serves the average museum quite well, thanks.

I think that but agree about

Submitted by rafikd on Thu, 23 August 2007 - 10:33.

I think that both agree about the generic criteria for a gTLD.
there are a point to discuss is a english term can be significant for native-speaker but not for others. for example, .inc can be fuzzy and has not a meaning for people who don't speak english well or understand what is the meaning of inc or ltd. for german sperakers GmBh is relevant.
the problem with .aero or .museum is that target a really small market . I doubt that a new museum are created every year or even every decade!
moreover, gTLD target individuals users can fail.
yhe possiblities are unlimited and just depend to our imagination.
Rafik DAMMAK

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