On 7/13/13 12:27 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > FWIW, I think for most larger companies with multi-billion dollar > > revenues streams it is less about the up-front fees to apply & > > operationalize a gTLD than the long term business potential. > > I guess I'm missing something. How exactly is having a gTLD going to bring in > the Big Bucks? Do people actually type addresses into the address bars on > their browsers any more, or do they just type what they're looking for into > the search bar? > > Noel Not even using a search bar anymore. Some browsers do a search whilst you are writing the hostname that you want to access. So for facebook I just normally type "fac", twitter "twi" and it autocompletes. For Google and wikipedia I do not even try to go to their web page. For a search (google) I just type what I am looking for and that is all, for wikipedia I do the same and 95% of the times the first search result is the link to them. Regards, as