As the year closes I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at thedomains.com and what we have had to say about it since we started writing about it over 5 years ago.
For many, you first heard of the new gTLD program on theDomains.com.
Seeing that a monumental change to the naming system was coming we have written about it every step of the way
Readers have all kinds of opinions on the new gTLDs.
I think its fair to say its the most divisive issue in the domainer community not only in 2013 for for the last several years.
As for Mike Berkens, some see me as one of the biggest supporters for new gTLD’s.
Some call me a centrist, while others think I am a cheerleader.
One of the good things about writing a blog, is the writer is on the record.
Everyday.
However readers have a short memory.
The fact is I was not a proponent of the new gTLD program.
Quite opposite I was on the record against the program.
I fought the fight, submitted comments to ICANN during open comment periods and wrote against the program, the number of new extension being released, how the program was structured and being run and to this day most people in ICANN view me as a critic of the program and of ICANN.
Anyway as I said I’m on the record, so lets review the record.
Back when the process started I was against the program and stated that opinion succinctly, made my objections known with ICANN in public comment period and with dozens of posts on TheDomains.com
I have put together a “Timeline” of the early days, when most thought this program would never come to fruition.
When I published my first post about the coming new gTLD’s it was June 2008.
That’s over 5 years ago.
My first post was back on June 22, 2008 in a post entitled; So Are You Ready For Hundreds of New Domain Extensions?, which I wrote in part:
During the ICANN Meeting in Paris this week, ICANN announced that it was seriously considering whether to opening up domain names to endless variations and approve hundreds of new extensions including .berlin, .paris, .quebec .cat (for Catalonia) and one for the big apple, .nyc
We’re talking about introducing potentially thousands more names,” said Paul Levins, executive officer of ICANN”
“The addressing system hasn’t fundamentally changed since its invention.
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