Four domain names launch this week, including .money.
Donuts releases four new top level domain names this Wednesday: .Money, .Legal, .Memorial and .Coach.
Ironically, .Money costs the least money of the four. A couple registrars I checked are offering the domain name for $28 per year.
.Legal, .Memorial and .Coach are all priced about $50 retail.
Many of these domain names are similar to other existing domains. .Money will compete with .Cash (4,200 domains) and .Finance (2,600 domains). .Legal is similar to .attorney (7,000 domains) and .lawyer (10,100 domains). .Memorial goes up against .RIP (600 domains).
If you can’t wait until Wednesday to register one of these domain names, or you have a great idea that you think someone else will also have, you can purchase the domain name at a premium today during the Early Access Program.
Most of the guys aggressively chasing these gtlds have learned a hard lesion, premium renewals against minimal sales, and they are standing down.
Picked up a couple .Coach domains yesterday and have quite a few on pre-reg. Missed several of the .money domains though, but good to see who picked them up, was in good company:)
Understanding the mobile fitness market, and the drive towards real time video fitness coaching over the web I am happy with picking up Mobile.Coach….
What an irony that .money costs the least.
Also,these many new domains are being introduced, I would love to see what good/bad effects these extensions have in the search rankings.
btw, “Legal” also means “Cool” in PT ( pt & br ) …thought I would share. 🙂
.money is a winner in terms of quality and usefulness, much better than .cash, but the standard reg pricing is likely far too high and would likely discourage the kind of traction and adoption that could make it really popular. .club is way ahead on that point. If they lower the price I’m guessing it could really gain ground.
As with all of the other gtlds, these are all .ReallyStupid
And I believe that is what the newspapers said about websites and .com in 1995 as well:) That was rather short sighted of them.
Clearly just a little nasty naysaying there. I’m as much a “.com is king” proponent as anyone (with some exceptions to that), and I was a bit of naysayer before they appeared, but clearly some of them are good, some of them are useful, some of them are quite smart, and some of them give someone another chance at a great name to use when the .com is long out of reach. It’s not all about flipping and selling domains. They only even derive their value for those who sell them from being valuable and useful for actual commercial use to begin with (hello?). So Rastler W’s little bash there is .reallyweak.
And of course, you make a good point. Were they really saying that about .com and websites back then?
I was in conversations in the mid 2000s with newspapers that were fighting the shift to the web. Think how many went out of business because they did not evolve as the market evolved. Consumers change behavior over time and gTlds will be no different. We all talk about the visionary purchase made by people buying .coms in the mid 90s. I find it surprising how the people touting that don’t recgonize the same “landrush” is happening now. In concept it really is no different.
(1)
A land rush toward 1 TLD that enjoyed the internet’s first decade or 2 with virtually no competitors
… is not necessarily the same as …
(2)
Being pulled simultaneously in 1000 directions by 1000 TLDs. They’re competing both against each other and against very established ccTLDs and gTLDs, including .COM.
Seeing potential in the nTLDs is one thing. But professing that #1 and #2 are “really no different” is quite another.
Here are another 2 things that utterly dissimilar:
(1)
Newspapers’ early failure to adjust to the internet revolution, which brought about a fundamental shift in media (from paper to websites).
(2)
Putting .COACH alongside .COM on the menu for ordering up the same old websites.
Why pretend these scenarios are equivalent? Be as bullish as you like regarding nTLDs, but keep as a sense of perspective.
Green Coca Cola Life is certainly a change. Just like the fall of Soviet Communism, right?