Sunrise to begin November 26.
Donuts announced this morning that it plans to start the sunrise for its first seven top level domain names on November 26. The sunrise will close on January 24, 2014.
The seven domains are .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles, and .ventures.
Interestingly, the company has chosen to skip the landrush phase for these domain names. The landrush period typically allows people interested in premium domains to place their orders, and if there’s more than one order for a domain name then it goes to auction.
I bet many applicants are counting on strong landrush auction revenue in their business models.
Although Donuts isn’t doing a landrush (at least for these seven TLDs), don’t count on getting the best domains at a standard registration fee. Expect Donuts to have variable pricing at the registrar depending on the quality of the domain name.
Registrars that will carry Donuts’ TLDs include GoDaddy, 1&1, and Web.com (Register.com, Network Solutions).
I won’t be regging any of those 7.
There would be no point to doing landrushes for low-demand tld’s, they would just accentuate the lack of demand.
There are lot of Tld’s releasing , but i think none of them can beat .com,
check http://www.brandarrows.com/blog/which-is-best-top-level-domain-tld-to-choose-for-any-business/
So this may become the new trend? No more landrush. Variable pricing? Not interested. I may take a look if the prices are less than $8. There will be just too many choices.
I still think there is plenty of money to be made if you can register the right domain name. who as an investor wouldn’t walk to own domains such as Cloud.Guru, Essex.Plumbing, Kids.clothes, date.singles, electric.bike?
I think .com will still be the strongest and when domains such as these are registered it will increase the value of the matching .com 🙂
What do you call a landrush … where few rush?
What do you call a sunrise … that few see?
We’re about to find out.
There won’t be a landrush but a phase 2 called EAP instead, lasting 7 days with an auction like structure.
Ascio is another Registrar who will support all Donuts TLDs
It doesn’t seem that way based on the press release they put out…at least for these 7 domains.
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