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>Over 1,300 new names or "strings" could become available in the next few years.

I'm the only one that doesn't like this? Having more domains it's nice, but having so many just feels overwhelming. I'm also sure that some/many of those will be completely ignored by everyone, and thus making me wonder why introduce them in the first place.

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The way they've chosen which TLDs to issue is kind of lame. The entire concept of some company name as a TLD is ridiculous. It's just namespace pollution. Using just the TLD without any subdomain is going to invoke bugs in old software or be confused with a search term in the address bar, and using 'www.chase' instead of 'chase.com' is pointless and confusing.

What they should have done instead is created a bunch of TLDs for various different industries. Having 'chase.bank' and 'ford.cars' would have made a lot more sense.

'www.chase' would be equally valid as 'www.com'. Nothing wrong with it.

I would love to take the sting out of someone getting the one or two "primary" domains for an IP, even something generic a concept as "grow.com" or something along those lines, and splitting it up so that just about anybody can get a specific flavor in. "No, we're not grow.com, but we're also not grow.xxx or grow.medical, we're grow.coffee!"

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