A few new TLDs hit registrars’ shelves this week, including a large geo domain.
A few top level domain names coming out in a week is the new normal, so I’m going to stop calling these “slow” weeks. Here’s a look at this week’s new top level domain name rollouts.
.Quebec – Quebec gets its own TLD this Tuesday, but its government is going to sit on the sidelines thanks to the price tag of transitioning. The domain does not carry geographic restrictions, so people outside Quebec can register the domains.
.Top – Chinese company Jiangsu Bangning releases this domain name in general availability on Tuesday. In Chinese the word means “breakthrough”, according to the company. Let’s hope the Chinese meaning is popular, because this domain doesn’t have much potential in English. I’d compared it to .best. “Best” and “top” belong before the word they’re describing in English, which makes the TLDs seem backward.
.Engineer – This Rightside domain name is currently in the Early Access phase, and reverts to regular pricing on Wednesday. Donuts released the similar .engineering domain name in July and has about 1,850 registrations in the zone file.
Robbie says
I don’t even want to know the insane premiums they are going to place on .engineer
degree.engineer $60k
newyork.engineer $60k
seattle.engineer $60k
internet.engineer $60k
structural.engineer $60k
PER YEAR!
Basically anything decent is $60k per year, about the after tax take home pay of a starting engineer in most cases.
In 16 years you should have paid out close to $1M
Now that I saved all of you 2 hours of your life, go outside, and take a walk, and give this crud a rest.
Oliver says
.top have successfully onboard GoDaddy, reach a wider range of users around the world!