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KPMG dumps .com for dot-brand gTLD
Kevin Murphy,
April 12, 2019, 13:23:00 (UTC),
Domain Registries
KPMG has become the latest company to dump its .com domain in favor of its dot-brand gTLD.
The company recently announced that it is now using home.kpmg as its primary web site domain, replacing kpmg.com.
The migration appears to be complete already. URLs on the old .com address now bounce users to the equivalent page on .kpmg. Web searches for KPMG return the .kpmg domain as the top hit.
KPMG said in a press release:
The move enhances the KPMG brand through a strong, simplified name, and provides end users with a level of assurance that any site that ends with .kpmg is owned and operated by KPMG.
Since the top level domain can only be used by KPMG, visitors to sites that use the new top level domain can easily confirm its authenticity and be assured that the information they contain is reliable and secure.
The company said that it is the first of the “Big Four” professional services firms to make the switch.
This is technically correct. Rival Deloitte uses several .deloitte domains, but it has not bit the bullet and migrated from its .com.
Of the other two, Ernst & Young does not have a dot-brand, and PricewaterhouseCoopers does not use its .pwc extension beyond a single experimental domain that redirects to pwc.com.
KPMG had revenue just shy of $29 billion last year and is one of the most recognizable brands in the corporate world.
This is like going back in a time warp to 2014. Are they the last to get the message that .brand is a dud?
I hope you desist from slandering non-.com TLDs.
At least they are doing it the right way.
1. They own the .com
2. The .com redirects
BUT
We will have to see how it plays out in the next year or so. There may be hurdles that surprise them. There may be a lot of things that surprise them.
So their new home page is Home.KPMG and everyone is supposed to remember “Home” instead of .com?? HA!
It is a mess and I would say they have been sold a line by their registry provider. There is no security advantage over kpmg.com. People can just as easily check they are on kpmg.com as anything.kpmg.
Very surprised that in 2019 any company is still listening to this nonsense about security and reliability. They are going to have to register homekpmg.com (owned by a Chinese registrant) and every address they plan on using because that is where a big % will end up.
HOME.BARCLAYS, again .com redirects only.
home.barclays stays on home.barclays when I visit the site. No redirect.
I’m with Mr. Murphy. Having just checked, there are no apparent .COM redirects. .BARCLAYS only.
Not a smart move IMO.
Delete the dot com then i will believe you have big balls.
YEs, I agree with Anunt. Delete your .COM and then (and only then) will you have cajones. To keep the .Com alive to catch your lost visitors is not the same as “switching to a gtld”.
Regardless, I predict they will switch back in a few weeks as have many others. Here is how the attempt will inevitably end: http://domainincite.com/17785-first-live-dot-brand-switches-back-to-com
According to Whois, home.kpmg has been up since 11/30/2018….but you were so close!
The domain started resolving to a web site in early January. I do not know when they pulled the trigger on the .com switch.
So they went into a boardroom meeting with 20 top executives and said yes lets use home.kpmg
I bet couple of guys in that meeting knew this was a bad idea but they didn’t want to lose their 6 figure paying job and just agreed with the rest of the idiots.
They all need to be fired.
wait is that home.kpmg.com? no? home.com?
That is funny but probably 100% right. The guy at the top makes the decision, the rest nod their heads, agree what a great idea it is and wait for the disaster to unfold.
Here is a question. How long will it take them to reverse the decision? The answer to that is directly proportional to their ego size, given it is an accounting firm it could take years before they admit it and have their Overstock moment.
Snoopy, please point on the doll and tell me where they hurt you…Everything will be ok
This is all just too funny to believe that these geniuses with their degrees and fancy titles have no BRAINS or any common sense!!
And these same FOOLS now have to pay Google for their own traffic. LOL
Type in .kpmg cuz nobody is gonna remember home.kpmg
But kpmg.com was easy and it was intuitive.
Now they got DUMB! and it’s gonna get DUMBER! And they get to pay!
Just by reading some of the ill-mannered, indecent comments above, I think KPMG made the right decision because KPMG is different from those ill-mannered folks.
“KPMG is different from those ill-mannered folks”
In what way? Im a CPA w master’s degree in accounting. KPMG has always been the shadiest outfit of the Big 4, and even when it was Big 6.
Professional accountants and lawyers are on the low end of the totem pole when it comes to digital marketing/branding savvy.
In etiquette and professionalism ways.
I guess it makes sense from a trust pov, but from a marketing/branding perspective, it’s a downgrade.
Reminds me of the Overstock rebranding fail.
How does this make sense form a trust point of view? home.kpmg is a clearer or easier to use web address that kpmg.com?
Well they can now have:
contact.kpmg instead of kpmg.com/contact
etc
Perhaps the most obvious problem is apparent from the press release itself.
For further information, contact:
Patrick Kerr
KPMG International
patrick.kerr@kpmg.co.uk
They first announced this plan to shift in 2013, so I doubt any solution to the email problem is in the works. Like many of the other early .brand adopters they have just added another layer of domain confusion. What is their primary domain, home.kpmg? kpmg.com? kpmg.co.uk? What a mess.
There is no mess.
Their canonical website domain is home.kpmg.
As to kpmg.co.uk, it’s either their canonical email domain or a transitional one which will be replaced in the future.
The following classic phrase seems relevant as a result of their “dot brand” decision … “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”.
As long as they keep their “.com” they will eventually be able to go back to doing the best thing for their firm network’s visibility, marketing and branding.
“Stupid Is as Stupid Does”
Bad call. Not sure what KPMG is thinking.
Funny that this link showed up on the same page:
http://domainincite.com/23313-allstate-dumps-a-dot-brand
There are some long-term benefits to moving to a .BRAND TLD; no homoglyph attacks.
Example: http://kрmg.com http://xn--kmg-0ed.com
When I read articles like this I always remember what 50 Cent said at the dotCLUB launch party (go to 1:45). “Now remember, 50 Cent, whatever you do don’t mention dotCOM.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T5RI2JKOmI
Five years ago, a middle-aged man made a slip of the tongue in a room full of other middle-aged men and late-teen women that the main middle-aged man had paid to be there just to make him look good.
I’m sure that’s not what you’re basing your investment strategy on, Dave.
I have to comment here. Moving to .kpmg as the anchor of trust with total control of the environment to the root, with elegantly communicate key messages on brand authority just makes sense for any forward thinking brand. With the increasing complexity of 100s+++ of extensions, by anchoring digital on a Brand TLD KPMG ensures digital brand trust. Using .kpmg or any other .brand also mitigates the need to continually register 100s of defensive, look alike domains in other TLDs. .com is king. I dont see that changing anytime soon – why because it was the first mover and what we know. The internet is in its infancy and to think it will not evolve is not rational. You need the com, no question but eventually brands of any stature will own their own authoritative space. No question there either IMO
I agree.
This thread has highlighted 95-98% of domainers as arrogant, clueless idiots.