Want to own .app, .blog or .pet? Best sell a third of yourself for $100m on London Stock Exchange

Thursday 23rd October 2014 07:21 GMT frank ly

I like Auction #6 Contention Set 11

On the new internet, everybody will know you're a .dog.

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Thursday 23rd October 2014 07:22 GMT Anonymous Coward

I've already been offered first dibs on the option of these 'new' domains because I have been using the domain name for the last 15 years or so.

Of course, the price wasn't explained to me.

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Thursday 23rd October 2014 08:38 GMT Anonymous Coward

Hey the late nineties called....

...they want the .bubble back!

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Thursday 23rd October 2014 08:41 GMT Cliff

4.3x valuation

That's not at all bad, 3x is common sandwich-shop stuff, this is monopoly land-grab territory. And look at the nonsense like Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat valuations - this isn't a bad horse to back if you think some of their tld's are going to be popular.

As for the eventual value of .whatever, I guess we'll see if anyone really uses them, or if they're just vanity domains (I have my suspicions already)

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1. Thursday 23rd October 2014 12:38 GMT VinceH
  
  Re: 4.3x valuation
  
  "As for the eventual value of .whatever, I guess we'll see if anyone really uses them, or if they're just vanity domains"
  
  Not to mention protection racket domains - whereby well known brands (and even smaller companies) are compelled buy theirname/trademark.newTLD to protect them from misuse.
  
  "(I have my suspicions already)"
  
  Ditto.
  
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Thursday 23rd October 2014 12:56 GMT Trigonoceps occipitalis

Dot Goole

Not a fan of the ".name/plce etc" domains but I'm not sure it will make any appreciable difference to the majority of Internet users. They'll just stuff the search term into Google and look on the first or second page.

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1. Thursday 23rd October 2014 19:10 GMT Nuke
  
  @Trigonoceps occipitalis - Re: Dot Goole
  
  " [no] appreciable difference to the majority of Internet users. They'll just stuff the search term into Google
  
  Agreed, that is what I do. The very fact that organisations will buy up their own domain name under all possible TLD's (maybe ibm.dot-vip, ibm.london, ibm.pet, ibm.rocking-horse-shit etc) shows that these extensions have no meaning already. Jeez, I own a ".me.uk" website and I don't have a clue what the ".me" stands for and I don't care either.
  
  The only significant thing, possibly, is a national name in the TLD. If I am looking for a plumber I won't want one with a TLD of .nz because they would probably charge an extremely high call-out fee.
  
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