A Crazy Idea: A .blog TLD?
Filed Under (Waste Basket) by Mysk on 21-01-2006
Here’s a crazy idea: How about a .blog TLD? We have .com, .info, .tv and so on. If blogs began to use a .blog identifier, would it help organize the Internet’s information?
There are pros and cons to this. Here are some that hit me as I type.
On the plus side, search engines could easily sift the clutter from the rest of the search results. This would make everyone happy. Google, for example, could take everything with a .blog TLD and put it into its blogsearch.Google.com database. The effects of link bombing (aka; Google bombing) could also be reduced by minimizing the effects that blog links have on results returned in a “normal” search. Linking would still hold the same ammount of weight in blogsearch.Google.com as it does in regular searches today.
Existing websites, and even popular television shows, could launch official blogs that would readily be recognized as such. I could see Lost.blog appearing with journals from each character, and the like.
On the negative side, we have existing blogs with .com, .net or dot-whatever TLDs. Organizing these would be just as much of a hassle as ever. Second, it could easily be argued that most websites today are blogs and therefore blogs are the most influential web sites the ‘net and thus their links should carry just as much weight as ever. Organized search results, or not.
To take the Lost.blog example again, I’m sure that a subdomain blog.lost.com identifies it just as well. So do we really need another TLD?
This thought hit me while I was browsing my domain registrar. What do you think? Crazy, good idea, “Other”?
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~Mysk