New TLD .domains launches tomorrow.
Starting tomorrow you’ll be able to register .domains domains.
Seriously: anything.domains will be up for grabs.
The Early Access Program phase for Donuts’ top level domain .domains starts on March 5. A week later, on March 12, .domains domains will be available at standard pricing of around $30-$40.
I’m curious what types of domains will be registered in this namespace. I’m sure some registrars will participate.
As for domain investment opportunities, I’ve always found that domainers hate to pay a lot for domains with “domain” in them. I’m not quite sure why.
A few possible names stand out, but unfortunately they’ll be difficult to get.
Donuts has registry reserved premium.domains. Register.domains is on the name collisions list, but even if it wasn’t I suspect it would be reserved. Donuts has reserved register.TLDs in its other domains.
One domain that will be available is expired.domains. But you’ll have to open your pocketbook. The domain is a premium one at a level I’ve never seen before from Donuts.
GoDaddy is asking a whopping $1,499 per year. Name.com has it for $960 per year.
If you buy it during the Early Access Program period it will set you back even more for the first year.
Agreed, it’s the first gTLD aimed at domainers. As with every gTLD, it targets a specific, niche market, even smaller than those released before. Then again, others might find an opportunity I am not seeing. Passing on this one as it does not belong to my long term investment strategy. Would love to see what gets registered though.
You think it’s aimed at domainers? I would think domain registrars more than domainers.
I would include the entire domain industry, correct.
Is it .domain or .domains or both?
RE: “Starting tomorrow you’ll be able to register .domain domains”
RE: “Donuts has registry reserved premium.domains. Register.domains is on the name collisions list, but even if it wasn’t I suspect it would be reserved”
Confusing.
It’s plural. Fixed it. Sorry about that.
I would be very careful in respect to TM’s on the .domains registry, as their are many offshore companies that may not seem obvious when registering specific names. Registars, and companies in this space will be much quicker to bring action, that we have seen in previous extensions. As well the statement of domainers not paying up for domain type domains is very correct. Can be a tough sell, when one knows how to go about obtaining names from drops etc..
I do not feel like this is an end user resell investment grade extension.
There’s a ton of possibilities
Bad.Domains
Shitty.Domains
Worthless.Domains
Fail.Domains
and oh yea
SomeIdiotWillDefinitelyBuyThese.Domains
Gang.Domains
Wire.Domains
Journal.Domains
News.Domains
Snap.Domains
Where can you see the renewal price already? I usually figure it out on the first day they open which is tomorrow didn’t know I could do it beforehand
Godaddy’s preorder pricing
Hey dude, what are you on this evening? Thanks for the laugh.
Centralnic will probably get domains.domains and offer registration of .domains.domains domains.
Ha ha…