New operating system (that comes pre-installed on iPhone 6) makes it easier to access websites using new top level domains.
One of the big challenges with new top level domain names is getting them to work with various devices and software programs.
This took a big leap forward on the mobile side with Apple’s release of iOS 8 this week.
Before, it wasn’t always easy to get a new TLD to work on an iPhone. You had to type in http:// most of the time for it to be recognized as a web address. That’s why Uniregistry put http:// on a bus advertisement. (I doubt that was effective; I can’t imagine someone actually typing this prefix in on their mobile phone!)
iOS 8 appears to full support new TLDs, at least the Latin character ones.
My new iPhone easily resolved new TLDs, including ones that just launched. I tried the same names on my iPad using iOS 7 and they still went to a search page. The domains worked after upgrading the iPad to iOS 8.
With millions of new iPhones shipping with iOS 8 (and many other phone owners upgrading to it), this is a big leap for new TLDs.
That said, there’s a long way to go. Many Android phones won’t work with new TLDs, and that says nothing of various software program incompatibilities. Internationalized domain names have an even longer road ahead.
This has been a huge issue for the industry. When I got my Iphone 6 today it was the first thing I tried. Happy to say it works great on every TLD include the recently launhed ones like .VEGAS and .WEBSITE.
Next roadblock to take down: Domain Collision.
Is nic.world (the most recently delegated TLD) works in iOS 8 as well ?
It doesn’t appear to, unless you put in the http. Maybe they’ll have to keep updating the resolution tables.
Quick correction. That picture was an early artist’s rendering of the Big Sexy Bus. The version we rolled into production was “www.areyou.sexy”. You can see pictures of the real buses by searching for the hash tag #bigsexybus on Instagram and Twitter.
Oh, I thought Frank said on Twitter that He went with https rather than www because the latter wouldn’t work when someone typed it in on their phone.
Less than 6 months in and new TLD’s are already approaching 3 million.. 3% (loosey goosey) of .com registrations?
What will this space look like in 5 full calendar years when every new generic and .brand extension is live? How many names will be registered? The world is profoundly changing right before our eyes. Even a blind man in the dark can see the turn coming.
Very very exciting stuff actually.
yeah,seperating words with a dot is very exciting. being limited to what words are released to the right of the dot is very exciting too.
nice to know that apple did some correction in there New operating system of iphone 6..
“Many Android phones won’t work with new TLDs”
Curious what you mean by that. Both Chrome and Firefox for Android have supported the new TLDs. I think Chrome has only recently, but Firefox has supported them since they first became available.
They didn’t work on my old phone. I imagine they work on ones with more recent versions of Android and/or Chrome.
Let me get this straight, gTLD’s worked with most PC browsers but they didn’t work with Iphone’s O7 and earlier, and NOW because they do work with Apple 0S8, this is a “big leap” for gTLD’s?
Since when is a update a “big leap”? Your quite the wishful thinker Andrew, I would have thought you learned your lesson when you hyped .mobi.
I hyped .mobi? I think you’re just confused.
Raider must be a 50’s something who is fully vested in the .com status quo.
Sorry “Raider”, but the new gTLD’s are here to stay and your 1998 .com business model isn’t going to work much longer… on any operating system.
Your only half right, it’s true i am vested in dot coms, and I have over 250 end users to thank for that, What’s the point?
I agree with you 100% that gTLD’s are here to stay, gTLD investors like yourself have almost guaranteed us of that, only Domainers see promise in gTLD’s, only they are foolish enough to invest thousands and sometimes tens of thousands of dollars on a mere hunch they will take off, only they ignore the dying history of past gTLD’s and repeat the same mistake and only they hold the majority of registrations of every gTLD that has been released.
As for the future of dot com, I don’t think it’s going away any more than the 1-800 number is going away, Whether you disagree or not, I wish you all the best with your 844’s 🙂
Anyone can research your blogs on dot mobi and draw their own conclusion, I read a lot of them and viewed it as hype.
Never had a issue with Chrome and Android..
There was a time when domainers thought these were winners;
.name
.mobi
.xxx
.web
.info
If nobody builds on gTLD’s, what difference does it make if they pull up or not?