All 32 NFL teams applied for its domain name in the new gTLD .Football that launches into general availability next week.
Interestingly some applied with their city and team like the BaltimoreRavens.football and the AtlantaFalcons.football while other teams just went with their name like 49ers.football and Bengals.football.
If your keeping track 15 NFL teams went with their city and nicknames while 17 just registered the name of their team sans the city.
A team that registered just its city and nickname might have a really hard time getting their domain in .football from someone else who registers for example the New York Jets only registered NewYorkJets.football. Someone who owns a private jet service could register say jets.football and put up a site around private plane transport to football games and events.
Not one of the 32 NFL teams registered both their citynickname.football name and just their nickname.football domain name.
While the Canadian Football League registered CFL.Football and the name of their championship game Greycup.football the National Football League did not register NFL.football, nor SuperBowl.Football but did register probowl.football
On the college football front just 10 of the over 100 Division 1 football programs registered a .Football domain name.
Not only did the regulatory body for college football fail to register NCAA.football but not one of the major football conferences registered a .football domain name.
Some Soccer names were registered including ffia.football, worldcup.football
Of course teams and League may registered domain names during the Early Access Program (EAP) or general availability which is cheaper than Sunrise.
Here are the more interesting domains:
NFL
49ers.football
atlantafalcons.football
baltimoreravens.football
bengals.football
buccaneers.football
buffalobills.football
cardinals.football
chargers.football
chicagobears.football
chiefs.football
clevelandbrowns.football
colts.football
dallascowboys.football
denverbroncos.football
detroitlions.football
giants.football
houstontexans.football
jacksonvillejaguars.football
miamidolphins.football
neworleanssaints.football
newyorkjets.football
packers.football
panthers.football
patriots.football
philadelphiaeagles.football
raiders.football
redskins.football
seahawks.football
steelers.football
stlouisrams.football
titans.football
vikings.football
College & Others
12thman.football
auburn.football
auburntigers.football
auburnuniversity.football
bostoncollege.football
canadianfootballleague.football
canberraunited.football
cbs.football
cfl.football
fantasypremierleague.football
fcbarcelona.football
fcbayern.football
ffa.football
fifa.football
fifaworldcup.football
footballfederationaustralia.football
fox.football
foxdeportes.football
georgiainstituteoftechnology.football
georgiatech.football
greycup.football
hamiltontiger-cats.football
Longhorns.football
LSU.football
nflnetwork.football
nflshop.football
nflticketexchange.football
probowl.football
qatar2022.football
ramblinwreck.football
texas.football
TexasAandM.football
trojans.football
utah.football
wareagle.football
worldcup.football
yellowjackets.football
todd says
The reason all the NFL registrations are different is because whatever name they owned in .com they got the exact same registration in .football. That is why some have the city name in them and some don’t.
dcmike says
So how much does the value of the infamous cowboys.com drop now?
janedoe says
That would depend on whether the .football names purchased actually get used as full fledged websites and in advertising/merchandising.
And when most mobiles can recognize gtlds without being forced to add http:// in front to be used.
Michael Berkens says
Todd
Got you
Makes more sense
Volker says
Shouldn’t they be registering [team name].handegg? Registering a domain in the wrong sport, whats next, Dallascowboys.golf?
M. Menius says
If the teams choose to use their .football address in future promotions, that could be a good launch vehicle for making the public better aware of new gTLD’s.
SoFreeDomains says
The NFL teams probably need the domain more than the colleges.
Aishwarya says
Few day’s back, There was news on “mirror.co.uk”.
There’s a new sport called Ski Football and it looks AMAZING.
News link: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/row-zed/theres-new-sport-called-ski-5717243
Need to see, How that will be rated..