Pool.com has been taking pre-reservations for domain names for anticipated new gTLD extensions for well over a year.
Now another registrar, UnitedDomains.com started yesterday to accept the pre-reservations for some of the anticipated new gTLD extensions including .gay, .hotels, .nyc, .berlin, .eco, .sfo and .film.
UnitedDomains.com has received almost 5,000 reservations as of time of publication.
There is no charge for the pre-registrations but of course no guarantee that these extensions will ever exist, nor that any of these domains will be registered to the pre-registration applicant.
UnitedDomains.com is also taking pre-reservations for .XXX which is not a new gTLD but which is up for approval next week in San Francisco.
However the sponsor of the .XXX extension, the ICM Registry has also taken pre-registrations of its own for a number of years.
a good question for a poll: “which new TLD you believe will have more successful?”
my picks are
1st .shop
2nd .music
3rd .web
post edit: successful > success
Blah…blah…blah….
Ain’t gonna’ happen.
@Simon….how about dot BS
ccTLD values will go through the fookin roof once this “right-o-da-dot” talk stops. Watch…
I wonder if United Domains is a subsidy of Sedo??
ive got some .web pre registrations from 1999, wonder if theyre still good……
Page, is Ambler still after that or did they successfully kick him to the curb? I need to dig up those cartoon videos that came out over all of that, they were really funny… scary accurate but funny;)
I registered the new gTlD extension …
.CrackHeads some time last year …
NOW of course there is no guarantee that this extension will ever exist, nor that any of the
my imaginary chosen domains will be registered to the ME the delusional pre-registration applicant.
But hey, it beats watching the paint peel of the wall!
all these TLDs may have a big success if they will be managed by the .CO domains’ PR agency
@ Domainers Gate
LOL
Sure lets waste a small fortune again on another Hype Failure, zzzz
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@Domainers Gate
They already tried .web.
They called it “.info”.
@Landon
over 600,000 .CO domains sold in few months isn’t a bad result
of course, .CO never will become like .COM but some names are good, like e.co or mexi.co
and I’ve many good .CA domains in mind if Canada will allow to buy .CA also from the rest of the world
.info
I don’t like so much the .info domains (despite I own a few of them) but, so far, it is a “6.5 million registered domains’ flop” … over TEN times the .CO
Q: which of the already existing TLDs may have an huge success IF pumped up by a PR campaign as happened with .CO domains?
Domainers
Good question.
In my opinion when it comes to extensions you only get once chance to get it right, so re-branding and re-launching is much harder to do the second time.
Having said that it is possible with a vision and a lot of marketing dollars.
.travel IMHO would have a chance if it dropped all restrictions and did it the right way the second time around