{"id":31,"date":"2009-11-05T10:19:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T10:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.above.com\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2013-10-17T20:56:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T09:56:13","slug":"the-future-of-domains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.above.com\/blog\/the-future-of-domains","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Domains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As dot com domains become more scarce, the value of generic domain<br \/>\nnames rapidly climbs; many shorter generic domains selling for several<br \/>\nmillion US dollars.<\/p>\n<p>I often wonder if this value increase will continue at this rate, or<br \/>\nif, as new TLD&#8217;s (top-level domains) are created, the focus on dot<br \/>\ncom&#8217;s will decrease.<\/p>\n<p><b>But, what if domain names become obsolete?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThere are millions upon millions of websites on the internet. Do you<br \/>\never find yourself typing <i>ebay<\/i> into your browsers search box,<br \/>\nrather than going to the effort of those four extra keystrokes, to add <i>.com<\/i><br \/>\nto the end?<\/p>\n<p>Remembering all the websites you use is near impossible. If you&#8217;re not<br \/>\nthe kind of person that uses bookmarks, remembering whether the URL<br \/>\nends in <i>.net<\/i> or <i>.tv<\/i> can sometime be frustrating. <\/p>\n<p>I believe that, with the constantly-improving search engine technology<br \/>\nand the scarcity of domain names, domain names will eventually become<br \/>\nunimportant and practically obsolete &#8211; Search engines will be the only<br \/>\nway to find the website you are looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As dot com domains become more scarce, the value of generic domain names rapidly climbs; many shorter generic domains selling for several million US dollars. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"The Future of Domains\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.above.com\/blog\/the-future-of-domains#more-31\" aria-label=\"More on The Future of Domains\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[42,44,43,45],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domains-in-general","tag-future-of-domains","tag-search-engines","tag-tlds","tag-value-of-domains","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Future of Domains - Above<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/beta.above.com\/blog\/the-future-of-domains\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Future of Domains - Above\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As dot com domains become more scarce, the value of generic domain names rapidly climbs; many shorter generic domains selling for several million US dollars. ... 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