A poor entrepreneur just starting out online will wind up either paying big bucks to a domain speculator or getting stuck with a Web address that's long, obscure and impossible to remember. Wired News delivered to your inbox or hand-held device. Sponsored by Ericsson phones and accessories . According to registrar NetNames, more than 60 percent of the 32.3 million domain names registered worldwide have a dot-com suffix. The company registers dot-tv domain names, geared for sites with video applications.
Registrars admit there are also financial motives underlying their support for additional domains.
His company was one of 19 registrars that backed the Afilias proposal. But while registrars cheer the arrival of new suffixes, some folks who followed the dot-com registration boom question the logic of adding new domains. He had found no takers. Whatever the cause, he said he's not planning to try his luck buying addresses in any of the planned new domains. At NetNation, Kibur said demand for new dot-com domains has remained fairly steady.