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by troquerre
2841 days ago
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.com still reigns supreme but the icann only recently started letting people register new TLDs, and even then only 500 a year are registered. Handshake is helping to solve this by decentralizing DNS and letting anyone register new TLDs, so in the future .com may be way less popular than it is today. Disclosure: I founded Namebase.io which is a registrar for Handshake |
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When you pick a random tld like .io for example you are not getting the reliability of a .com. .io had a few big issues last year (1/5 of dns queries were failing, ex-google employee bought ns-a1.io and was able to take over all .ios).
As more tlds come from good and bad faith actors people will flock to .com as a known respected entity. Limiting to .com, .org, .net and country codes and slowly introducing new tlds made more sense and gave time to estiblish trust / create brand awareness. 500 a year creates noise and forces distrust of any unusual or new tld.