Sunday, October 23, 2005
Lips courtesy of a forum friend "Prosperous"
Why I think the .US ccTLD Domain will drive the next frontier for the Internet.
I don't receive or read any newspapers. I check them online. I don't get the local news via my satellite tv connection. I check the local news online. The main hardware store is a round trip 1 hour drive, and I don't want to spend the $ on gas to find out they don't have what I wanted. I'd rather check out their inventory online. I don't have much belief in the future for the yellow pages directory and their high cost ads that provide little information. Nor do I believe in the status quo for the other media (TV and Radio) and their earning trends bear that out. (Can you say XM radio?) The Internet is eating their lunch a snack bar at a time. Google didn't get into local search just for the hype. Local search IS minimal now. but it won't BE minimal. A $ spent on a local TV commercial NOW does give small business pwners more bang for the buck now, but it WON"T in the future. That move forward is a big deal for the NET and what people do now to find information locally will not be the same thing they do in the future. The .US extension is afterall best used as a geographical qualifier. I see Rapid-City.US/hardware as having a lot of potential as an address.. I'm telling you these gas engines will be the new thing. They have that horse of yours beat hands down, and I'm telling you that you WILL change your mind along with everone else. The .US domain extension can be that engine.