.News domains

By 2014, one company may own all the following .news domains.

This is just a microscopic, partial list of what's to come. Whoever becomes the dot news registry will own every conceivable dot news domain in existence, and subject to the terms of their application, there is no requirement to divest them or resell them. Maybe one million, maybe five million domains will be built into websites — who knows, the future registry probably doesn't even know? Yet.

One sole company may own, exclusively, every single domain listed on this page plus millions more. The scope of the .news category is almost unlimited, just about any subject could become a .news website.

Imagine the value of the tiny sample of websites listed here. Imagine if you could click on the buttons and visit the sites. Sites covering tech news, health news and sport news. Business news, Music news and world news. A small tip of the iceberg.

The potential of the traffic and commerce on these sites is truly colossal.

Just a few examples of .news domains illustrate the profound changes that are coming to the internet:

But wait, there's more. Every city in every country.

The whole world is covered. 10,000 cities, around the world:

But wait, there's even more. Every country in the world.

More than 200 countries:

Hold on, there's even more. Every location. Every state. Every suburb. Every geo name in the world (and on Mars).

Every geo location is covered. Tens of thousands of suburbs around the globe. Here is just a micro selection from LA and NYC:

And there's more. The .news string is highly relevant to every product in the world.

Plus 500,000 more, and every product yet to be invented:

Any one of the above concepts could become the basis of a multi-million dollar global business. And these are just a dozen examples among thousands of possibilities. Imagine Phone.news — info (with accompanying ads) about all the latest cellphones, plans and software. Imagine Game.news — info (with ads) about the latest games, downloads and players. Imagine Movie.news — info about all the latest Hollywood releases, dvds and merchandise.

Imagine being a billion dollar company with a state of the art marketing machine with the expertise and funds to launch these websites.

Imagine owning the entire .news category, imagine being able to add the extension to every concept, product and service in the world. In complete exclusivity.

Imagine also the power of being able to block your competitors from owning a single .news domain.

Exactly the same principle applies to many other key domain string applications, such as .store, .shop and many more.

Still more. Every service in the world.

Plus 10,000 more, (how many services are there?) and other miscellaneous categories besides:

How about YourName.news? How about Success.news?

Let's say one million .news domains are built out — for a minimum ICANN application bid of $185,000 — that's six domains for a dollar.

The .news category is just one of the hundreds of new gTLDs about to be released. While many are much more narrow in scope, many of the principles and implications described on this page also apply to the other gTLDs. There are so many domain possibilities — and every single name in each category may be owned by just one company.

Applicants for the .news registry:

There are seven applicants for the .news registry. You can read ICANN's full list here.

The Washington Post Connection

In 2013 Amazon's Jeff Bezos was announced as the buyer of The Washington Post. By combining the .news string as a closed TLD in tandem with the fine resources of The Post, Mr Bezos may be planning to build a major new global media empire the likes of which the world has never before seen.

Read more on The Washington Post page.

SPECIAL NOTE: The author has not read the individual applications for the above, and does not know which applicants if any are applying for exclusive ownership of these domains. The author does not state or imply that any of the applicants is seeking to establish a monopoly in the wide-ranging field of "news". Only that it is not expressly prohibited by ICANN's application process, and that some of the world's largest corporations intend to acquire and implement various gTLDs privately and exclusively. The consequences of this unprecedented scenario are unknown.

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