Will STEAM use a ".games" domain name?

[Naej]

It is possible to register domainnames (for websites) ending ni ".games", instead of ".com". Will Steam use one of these?

[Theblaze]

Originally posted by Naej:

[...] The .shop makes sense too but in regard to what people enter first in their browser "steam.com" points to something else. That's another good reason to go away from ".com".

It's "http://store.steampowered.com" (Steam Shop) and "http://steamcommunity.com" (Steam Community) not "steam.com".

The domain "steam.com" is not owned by Valve.

[aiusepsi]

Given that we've got these exciting new generic TLDs it would make sense to use them.

What's kind of interesting is that someone random has already bought http://steam.game and is offering redirects from the subdomains to Steam store pages; so for example Bethesda could get http://skyrim.steam.game and redirect it to the Skyrim store page.

Man, Valve should just steal that idea.

[Naej]

Originally posted by Theblaze:

Originally posted by Naej:

[...] The .shop makes sense too but in regard to what people enter first in their browser "steam.com" points to something else. That's another good reason to go away from ".com".

It's "http://store.steampowered.com" (Steam Shop) and "http://steamcommunity.com" (Steam Community) not "steam.com".

The domain "steam.com" is not owned by Valve.

Hey, did you notice when you hit "steam.community" ? Congratulations!

[Naej]

Originally posted by Theblaze:

Originally posted by Naej:

[...] The official IANA page says nothing about this: http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/com.html [...]

See:
http://www.verisign.com/en_US/domain-names/com-domain-names/what-does-com-mean/index.xhtml

I remember this page, it was created during or after the ICANN new gTLD program. Verisign was so against new domain name extensions that it invented an explanation to convince users to keep buying ".com". With new domain names, users asked: "by the way: what does ".com" mean?". I'd be interested in knowing exactly when this page was put online actually.

[NN]

yes