subject: Cheap Domains [print this page] Cheap domains are the talk of the town these days. People, across the internet fraternity, are talking about how domain names are being made available at throw away prices. This has meant that there are two things that transpire in the business-world. Firstly, those who always wanted to mark their existence on the internet but couldnt, because of shortage of funds, would be benefited by such cheap domains. On the other hand, the second perspective to it is that a large mass would get onto the internet and add to the clutter. This perspective talks about the same type of clutter which has brought about a decline of advertising interest in other conventional mediums like television and print. Also, it has to be acknowledged that rich companies would take up more than one domain, by the virtue of such cheap domains, and block the scope for others companies.
So, does that mean that cheap domains are more of a bane than boon to the medium of internet as also the business fraternity? The answer here is Not Necessarily. It all depends on how the situation is tackled going forward. The higher the maturity reflected by the managing authorities of the World Wide Web, the better and brighter would be its future. The first thing to obviously appreciate about these cheap domains is the fact that they are providing an equal opportunity to everyone. Be it an individual or a freelance executive or a small and medium enterprise or even a larger firm, everyone could share the same platform and have the opportunity of exploring the mind spaces of the consumers. Therefore, the divide between the rich and poor which was created by the conventional mediums because of their prohibitively expensive rack rates, would be eliminated by cheap domains.
However, one can definitely not ignore the problem that cheap domains bring along with them- a mass access. The large companies, as mentioned above, can have more than one domain under their name linking to their website. This would mean that the others, with the same domain requirement, do not have much to play around with. Although this situation is something worth consideration, its relevance is not as much as the significance of the benefits of cheap domains. All that the managing authorities of the medium have to do is create stringent guidelines of making sure that only the rightful owner of a domain is getting it. It is like only the rightful owner of the top place gets to be there on the search engines. These regulations would make sure that the benefits are being explored without being impacted much by the limitations of such cheap domains available today.
