.jobs and .travel domains approved…is this good?

ICANN approved two new domains last week--.jobs and .travel--Globetechnology- ICANN approves new domains. But I wonder if this is actually a good thing. No, I’m not anti-expansion, but I’m just wondering what the uptake is really going to be. There aren’t that many people using .biz or .info domains (yet, you might say). Consumers, though, are used to .com domains. Sometimes I even mess up typing my own sites with a .net suffix. I registered the darn thing and even I can’t get it right 100% of the time, so how we expect consumers just learning the Net to catch on?
 
On the other side of the coin is that this opens up a new world of domains and domain names focused on these two industries. This would, then, allow consumers to know what they’re getting when they see it. Oh, saltspringisland.travel I bet it’s about visiting Salt Spring Island .
 
We have a while to wait, though.  It’s going to take time for registrars to get their systems set up to register these domains and get them into the global DNS system.  Who will be the first I wonder, monster.jobs?
 
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Posted by Tris Hussey on 04/11 at 10:47 AM • Marketing -- Not About Blogs

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  1. I wonder what other domains will be opened up?

    Posted by jr  on  04/11  at  04:04 PM

  2. How many URLs are you (or any web user) really typing in manually? Most likely, thats less than 5% ... the rest is bookmarked, called from the history, accessed through search engines and link lists/blog rolls. So I don’t think there is really much the user has to worry about.
    The new TDLs will mostly help in SEO (having “jobs” or “travel” in each and every URL) and classification - and you can/will get them in addition to your current C/N/O/… domain.
    The weirdest thing about new TDLs happened to me when giving an .info mail address: A couple of times I ran into problems because forms only validated the classical TDLs. Best was an airline reservation system that informed me, only two or three letter TDLs would be possible. (That was last year!)

    Posted by Markus Stolpmann  on  04/12  at  01:17 AM

  3. As Google rank the domain names .com and .org higher then any others, we should wait for “approval” from Google as well.

    Posted by Liftis  on  02/16  at  12:52 PM

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