Coming Soon: New .Blog Domains for Websites

https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2016/05/12/coming-soon-new-blog-domains-for-websites/

by schwuk • 10 years ago

48 34 10 years ago

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dmix• 10 years ago

Finally a useful one among a plethora of questionable TLDs (ninja, rocks, guru, etc).

I'd say it's worse because I personally dislike tying a TLD to the function and purpose of the website. Having said that, in this case, it may not be a problem because this TLD is controlled by a blog-hosting company.

coldpie• 10 years ago

Well put. I'm not attached to my current domain and might actually pick one of these up, depending on pricing.

mapleoin• 10 years ago

I can't tell if these will be just for Wordpress blogs or will be allowed to be bought by anyone and used for anything.

anu_gupta• 10 years ago

We’ll be offering them to all websites — you won’t need to have a WordPress or WordPress.com site to purchase one.

_lce0• 10 years ago

The only want money.

That this TLD is called ".blog" is a nice marketing stunt from them --a very clever one!

nikolay9• 10 years ago

What's wrong with blog.domain.com or domain.com/blog? Why have a gazillion different domains - this is fragmenting identity especially if you can't secure the same name. The new extensions are a legalized extortion!

castis• 10 years ago

Theres nothing wrong with blog.domain.com or domain.com/blog. This new TLD is probably going to be more useful than the other TLDs that were released previously.

Also, I don't know that I'd call this extortion, no one is forcing people to buy up these new TLDs.

A cash grab, however...

nikolay9• 10 years ago

It surely is! If you have name.com/blog, now you have to buy yet another domain - name.blog. Many brands are forced to "secure" a bunch of overpriced domains! And this is what extortion is! And I said "legalized" extortion as on paper, as you say, nobody is forcing anybody, but in fact they are!

hobs2• 10 years ago

I have said it before and I will say it again, the new gTLDs are just a money grab by ICANN. Not only that, but they are basically SEO black holes, no thanks!

jbob20003• 10 years ago

No, I think they are needed. The .com namespace is crowded, it's really hard to find a nice, short domain name, as pretty much everything under 6 characters has been bought up.

If we can get older blogs and new blogs onto the .blog namespace, then this will free up .com for what it was intended for; companies.

nikolay9• 10 years ago

Oh, so consumers make a difference between name.co, name.com, name.website, name.online, name.click, name.link? Gimme a break! This is a legalized scam and ICANN is a mafia!

georgestephanis3• 10 years ago

Not a money grab. All $$ paid by the winner of the gTLD are divvied up to the losers of the auction. ICANN isn't just printing money here or pocketing the price.

hobs2• 10 years ago

I dont know where you heard that, because that is not what the ICANN wiki says: https://icannwiki.com/GTLD_Auctions

"ICANN condones private auctions, as it has encouraged applicants to resolve contention themselves, presumably through buy-outs, partnerships, and auctions. ICANN offers its own auction model as a last resort. All proceeds from gTLDs auctioned off under ICANN's auction model will go to ICANN as "excess funds" that will be redistributed at a later date, in ways that are yet to be determined.[2] "

"The first ICANN auction of last resort was concluded on 4 June 2014 for the string .信息 which had two applicants. The winning price was $600,000 US Dollars. ICANN used their authorized auction services provider Power Auctions, LLC to carry out the auctions."

So looks like you are incorrect.

CyberDildonics• 10 years ago

Like .xxx the real value will be in easier filtering.

nikolay9• 10 years ago

Tell me a single popular .xxx website, please!

smpetrey• 10 years ago

Can't wait to setup blog.blog.blog

georgestephanis3• 10 years ago

Someone register law.blog as Bob Loblaw

dingbat1967• 10 years ago

As a guy who helps other guys manage mail servers, I regularly see colleagues block these new tlds outright due to being spam domain hell holes.

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