The domain registrars are making more money again, this time with .mobi. Naturally, people with a trademark or other (like .com) domain will be wanting to grab their .mobi so noone else can nick off with it. But what’s the practical purpose of all these additional toplevel domains?
As far as I can tell, it’s just a money making scheme just like .biz was. You may use one or the other to provide advance clarity to your users/customers, but you’ll want/need to grab all the domains anyway to keep them safe.
Guh.
Yes, it is rather stupid. You have to get 8-10 domains per actual name when you want to secure a great idea. Want a few alternatives are you are up for 30+ domain names.
I predict that at some point TLD’s are no longer going to exist or we are going to have custom TLD’s. We are going to have arjen.lentz/index.htm We are going to become our own DNS servers. Required to download massive DNS directories in order to navigate the web.