Site gives .uno domains away for free, but ensures free domain names will be used.
The company behind the .uno top level domain name has launched a new social media aggregator called Uno Social Site.
Uno Social Site aggregates your data from various social networks (such as Facebook and Twitter) in one place. It also allows you to add additional media.
Notably, the free service comes with a free .uno domain name.
Registries have been working hard to get people to register and use their domain names. Use begets use, but getting people to use these new domain names takes time. That’s why I think Uno Social Site, although not completely unique, is a clever idea for a registry.
Think about it: if people use the service, they’ll share it with their friends. After all, it’s social sharing. Friends who visit someone’s Uno Social Site will be exposed to .uno domain names.
By tying the free domain names to a service, it ensures that the domain name will be put to use.
It will be interesting to see if this drives adoption of the .uno domain, which is targeted to Spanish speakers.
Milholm says
Not good enough. Nobody will buy into this because a lot of people don’t want to share information from certain social sites.
Also, the ad budget for something like this would have to be so grotesquely large just to begin to get basic traction.
This will be another big failure to add to the junk pile.
Kudos for them trying something new though.
Michael Bauser says
Wasn’t this .mp’s awful business plan, too?
DNsale says
If yearly renewal is also free then surely people would accept it.
Shaul Jolles says
@DNsale yes, renewals are free.