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"Just Released Domain Names"

The following extensions have just been released (.shop, .sport, .club, .mp3, .family, .travel, .free and yes .xxx! ) and I was wondering whether you think they are worth investing in?

Will they soon become as popular as the .com, .net, .co.uk?

Will Search Engines except them?

Or is this all a big con?

One thing to remember is that this is not the workof the evil (should I be saying taht) NSI registrry but instead another company trying to get in on the act. If the NSi decided to sell .shop domains then new.net would have a lot of angry customers on their hands.

All it is is another way of getting you to part with your cash. Read it as greed on the part of the administering body.Oh sure they'll say it will give you a unique prescense on the net along with the other billion users.

Personally I think its pants.

Thanks.... It think I'll do that

It's not as great as it first seems..

My understanding of these domains was that the person attempting to view your site had to have some special browser plug-in to enable them to do so. I think it was because these aren't actually fully qualified domains, simply redirects to strange address, and the plugin tells the browser where to go when the viewer types in a domain with one of these suffixes.

Until this plugin starts being distributed as standard with browsers, or a new set of fully qualified domains emerges, I'd stick with the current tried and tested options.

Personally, most of 'em sound pretty crappy.

The following extensions have just been released (.shop, .sport, .club, .mp3, .family, .travel, .free and yes .xxx! ) and I was wondering whether you think they are worth investing in?

Will they soon become as popular as the .com, .net, .co.uk?

Will Search Engines except them?

Or is this all a big con?