.News, one of the better new top level domain names, launches today.
Rightside launches its .News domain name today, and the company is hoping it becomes one of the highlights of its new top level domain name portfolio.
.News has already racked up about 1,000 registrations during the trademark sunrise and early access phases of registration. It becomes available for general registration today at 1 PM EDT. Registrars are offering the domains for about $20-$30.
“There’s a real appetite for .News,” Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu said.
LGBT news service PinkNews is one early user. Pink.news currently forwards to its existing domain name pinknews.co.uk.
In the “all press is good press” category, yesterday’s spoofing of Bloomberg using Bloomberg.markets (another Rightside top level domain name) might spur more news organizations to protect their brands in .News.
A report on the fake site said that Twitter was being acquired, and this caused shares in the social network to spike before people actually spent a minute looking at the source.
.News slimmed down its premiums list for .News, but you can still expect to pay higher annual fees for the better domains.
@PotentialNames says
.News is no doubt one of the best new gTLDs to launch thus far. I have been registering potential names in the string since Day 5 EAP, though some other parties like Mr. Berkens, beat me to some of the really good names.
Hope to read further updates on today’s GA total registration numbers.
Mark Burris says
Launched my first .news website today. ( http://nationalparks.news) Had applied previously waiting for the general release and was approved today. I am a big fan of .com and always will be, but do agree that .news is/will prove to be one of the better new extensions.