[wamatt]

You make a great ideological point sir. But let me make a pragmatic one.

The new gTLD's are coming whether we like it or not, so why not take advantage of it?

[rayval]

Pragmatically speaking, the new gGTLDs are likely to fail. So why not avoid that expensive bullet?

Aside: Has anyone ever run across a real functioning site that uses the .travel suffix? That is a precursor gTLD that went live in 2006. Presumably there are a lot more people interested in travel than there are in javascript.

[wamatt]

>Pragmatically speaking, the new gGTLDs are likely to fail. So why not avoid that expensive bullet?

If the premise is true, then I agree with the conclusion.

But what will make the new set of gTLD's likely to fail?

And what does "fail" mean even?

If all you are going on is history, not sure we can conclude anything. Past performance is a poor indicator of future performance.

If it weren't the case, then I switch professions and become a stock broker, because it would be dead simple that even I could understand it ;).