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Old 06-22-2011, 02:48 PM  
BlackCrayon
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Originally Posted by Verbal View Post
It will be hot for a while no doubt. Big companies will see the benefits of free publicity for being one of the first to dish out $180k. After a while people will simply become confused and inundated with a hundreds of different extensions.

"Wait!? How and where do I check my online statement now? Was is bac.bank, bac.money bank.america, bac.financialinstitution? ... geez, why don't they just use bankofamerica.com?"

People are dumb and show no signs of getting smarter.
I also can't see any company shelling out so much money to get a .whatever and not have the .com as well, as so much traffic will be lost to the .com.
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