"How much will a .blog domain cost?
While not yet finalized, domain registration prices will be in the standard range for new top-level domains, with some premium pricing for higher-value names."
No longer 'first come, first served', now "How much you got?". Isn't registration supposed to be egalitarian?
Things like "business.blog" will fetch a price that'll likely be in the 4 or 5 figures a year for the registrant.
However, with these new TLD's coming out, you do have that chance, as long as the pricing is fair. If .blog is announced and it's $10 per domain, you have the same chance anyone else does to snag "gaming.blog". However, if that domain is considered "premium" and costs $10,000 to register, well... that really limits potential buyers to those that have deep enough pockets to afford it.
I'm not sure about that; many everyday users I know are now wary of 'general' domain names and see them as spammy or suspicious.
In the UK B&Q has to remind us that diy.com is actually their retail website and not some ad-ridden "answer aggregator"
Pizza.com was sold for millions http://www.cnet.com/news/pizza-com-domain-name-fetches-milli...
So was sex.com http://www.businessinsider.com/the-20-most-expensive-domain-...
As in, how many 'generic' domains are actually being used to their potential?
Has anyone ever ordered from Pizza.com? (Or manually put that in their address bar other than right now?). I think you'd be surprised how low that number is.
Not anymore, no. There was an outcry at the creation of generic TLDs back in 2008, but it wasn't loud enough or important enough and the community lost. It didn't help that it benefits most those that would have been most powerful to stop it: large corporations.
publishers of 'books' would prefer you buy them new so that they can collect the actual profits.
they don't really earn more than 10$ per year on the sale of 'Exclusive.com' given that someone probably registered it in the 90's for 10$ and they're selling it in a private sale for thousands or millions of dollars.
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Obviously this is not amazing, if it was 'first come first serve' domain squatters would do the same thing anyways.
It's not really like the 90's any more, once 'domain squatting' was invented, it doesn't really matter if you make new TLD's, there squatting will still exist on the shortest/simplest names.