Names will be released in batches over two months.
Top level domain name company Donuts will begin making domain names from collision lists, along with certain two character domain names, available next month.
The domain names will be released in batches related to categories of domains, such as photography domains and financial domains. This industry-batching should allow the company to market the availability to their target audiences.
Most of the names that will be released are on the name collision lists. These lists include a number of random domain names, but also some good ones.
For example, photography related domain names that were blocked due to name collisions include digital.camera, fashion.photography, family.photos and free.graphics.
The domain names will first go through Donuts’ Early Access Program, which means the domains will be available in a dutch action format for a week. After that, the domains will be available like all other Donuts domains. I suspect many of the domain names will come with premium prices, however.
The first batch of domains related to photography will enter Early Access on June 10.
Mike says
There would be NO claim period for actual trademark holders?
Andrew Allemann says
Donuts smartly put all of its collision domains through sunrise already. Some of these have been claimed by TM holders in sunrise and will be given to them. They don’t have to go through sunrise again, although I’m not sure about claims. I’ll ask Donuts.
Andrew Allemann says
No claims
Mike says
It would be interesting to know if from now for future nTLDs will Donuts allow collision and 2 character domains to be registered and claimed same was as other names, right from the beginning.