What is the impact of the new ICANN rules?

[benitez17]

With ICANN approving the use of generic domains and new extensions, some people are predicting that smaller website owners and domainers will be pushed out by these generic domains: http://www.sitepronews.com/2011/07/0...le-webmasters/

Are you concerned about this decision?

[grynge]

There could be an upside to it, imagine if all MicroSoft lovers or Apple lovers or Google lovers, moved to .ms .goog .apple wouldn't the internet be a much less trolled place lol.

I could imagine a company such as AOL believing they could force all their customers onto a .AOL world but I doubt it would work in the long run.

.com is pretty ingrained into people having people type www.hotels or www.travel (isn't travel already out there?) I can't really see much damage.

I can only assume the large boys will pack up their .coms and move to their own private address but you can bet they won't allow the .com's to lapse registration.

[crabfoot]

People with the sort of money to spend on those domains are also people who can afford TV advertising - unless oogle can be persuaded to dislike TV ads, there's no chance for the smaller people to compete with them in any case.