What makes a good extension to you?

[developers]

Many people use domain extensions as part of their branding.. I still believe in a .com base if you are able to get it as a starting point.. i have always felt this way for the past 10 years.. I do however own .co.uk and have also expanded into my reserved .uk counterparts.. I also own a vast amount of other country extensions.

I already have a large base myself.. Just out of general discussion do you feel that the New GTLDS are worth building on? I don't myself as some of these new extensions may vanish over the coming years therefore you would lose all your effort especially if other people registering such are a 'startup'..

How would you feel building on say a .me extension and never getting near the other 'main' extensions.. If i was a newbie i couldn't live with myself but could you get over this? (I'm not a newbie - just have a new forum account)

Is it me being hard headed about needing to own the lot (main extensions) or do others feel this way? It is me being in an age-old bubble? I would like to state that the new extensions have not interested me at all and i do not own any, so my obsession is only with long term standard extensions i guess..

Thanks for your feedback well appreciated