@Freddy N 173393 wrote:
.com is and will always be king (in my opinion!)
all these .travel, .asia, .casino, .porn, .xxx, .info have all gone down the drain. What makes you think if you can change the variable at the back makes it any different?
I agree .com rules – for the foreseeable future at least. And .net probably second when looking for a global audience. Primarily because those two are designated commercial doman extensions, where a lot of others aren’t The .info extension (where .me drops into line) does have it’s uses in the “long tail” – less competitive terms, but would need a bucketload of money and/or TLC (SEO TLC that is) to rank among the high-value terms.
Actually, .asia, along with .eu, are also commercially recognised and I think there is a long-term future there too. The .xxx extension along with others was dropped as an idea but is effectively being resurrected wih the “anything goes” extension strategy due next year.
The hardest one to evaluate is .mobi. I can understand why ppl would speculate there, although I chose not too myself, but a lot depends on whether or not mobile operators integrate the extension into their devices as a default extension over time. If they do – it has a big future, if not then it is just another extension trying to compete in a .com world.