.LOL launched into general availability yesterday by Uniregistry and wound with just 772 registrations including some 70 domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders.
Uniregistry is charging $6.88 for a .LOL registration.
Uniregistry beat out Google for rights to operate .LOL in a private auction.
There are several domain names registered of people running for President of the United States as well as President Obama.
Some comedians domains in .lol were registered as well, pretty sure that are all registered by third parties.
Here are some of the more interesting registrations which of course included abcxyz.lol
000.lol
007.lol
010.lol
1234.lol
1337.lol
24h.lol
2ch.lol
4chan.lol
6666.lol
8808.lol
888.lol
8888.lol
a-z.lol
aaa.lol
abcxyz.lol
about.lol
accredo.lol
act.lol
actu.lol
amateur.lol
apple.lol
badass.lol
barack.lol
barackobama.lol
berniesanders.lol
beyonce.lol
bigdata.lol
bing.lol
bisexual.lol
bitcoin.lol
blockchain.lol
bmw.lol
boxoffice.lol
btc.lol
build.lol
builds.lol
bullshit.lol
captainobvious.lol
caricature.lol
carinsurance.lol
ccc.lol
cdc.lol
cellphone.lol
cellphones.lol
champions.lol
chrisrock.lol
cinema.lol
clientsfromhell.lol
clouds.lol
coach.lol
coke.lol
collegehumor.lol
comedian.lol
comedyclub.lol
comics.lol
commercials.lol
countdown.lol
davechapelle.lol
dickhead.lol
disney.lol
donaldtrump.lol
ero.lol
erotic.lol
facebook.lol
failbook.lol
fck.lol
fifa.lol
forums.lol
fotos.lol
freeporn.lol
ftp.lol
funinsane.lol
funmad.lol
funnyanimals.lol
funnycats.lol
funnyfails.lol
funnygif.lol
funnypics.lol
funnypranks.lol
funnyquotes.lol
funnyvideos.lol
funnyvids.lol
gangbang.lol
gato.lol
gonzo.lol
hillaryclinton.lol
holiday.lol
holyshit.lol
humour.lol
iam.lol
idiot.lol
ifunny.lol
inbox.lol
instagram.lol
ios.lol
iot.lol
iphone.lol
itunes.lol
jackpot.lol
jebbush.lol
jets.lol
jimcarrey.lol
kamasutra.lol
kevinhart.lol
knockknock.lol
laughingoutloud.lol
laughoutloud.lol
lesbian.lol
liberals.lol
lolo.lol
mailbox.lol
malware.lol
minion.lol
minions.lol
nsa.lol
obama.lol
pdd.lol
penguins.lol
people.lol
playboy.lol
poems.lol
poker.lol
pornstars.lol
posters.lol
pothead.lol
pumpkin.lol
punked.lol
puppies.lol
redneck.lol
replay.lol
riddles.lol
robinwilliams.lol
robots.lol
rotf.lol
scottwalker.lol
secondhand.lol
selfies.lol
sexe.lol
shortjokes.lol
simpsons.lol
sitcom.lol
skate.lol
skateboard.lol
skateboards.lol
skates.lol
slapstick.lol
solo.lol
somethingawful.lol
southpark.lol
spacecadet.lol
spam.lol
stand-up.lol
standup.lol
startups.lol
stoner.lol
stoners.lol
style.lol
surfboard.lol
surfboards.lol
ted.lol
theworldis.lol
thisisfunny.lol
tigerwoods.lol
tinder.lol
toofunny.lol
tranny.lol
trump.lol
tweet.lol
tweets.lol
twitter.lol
uber.lol
viagra.lol
videogames.lol
vimeo.lol
vine.lol
viralmedia.lol
virals.lol
viralvideos.lol
walmart.lol
warez.lol
wasted.lol
webtv.lol
whatthefuck.lol
wow.lol
wrestling.lol
xmas.lol
you.lol
zombies.lol
Steve says
They should let the registry owner get a do-over and exchange lol for an emoji 🙂 or .haha or .hehe
LOL is like OMG – so “like over” (LOL, uh, I mean haha)
Steve says
I see “Robin Williams” got RobinWilliams.lol (on the 1 year anniversary of his demise) – WTF
Joseph Peterson says
In the a famous deceased comedian, laughing out loud might be considered a tribute.
Spencer says
This story came out yesterday.
HAHA
http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/10/9125797/haha-lol-or-hehe-facebook
Shane says
What bad luck. The week of the release an article comes out saying young people don’t use LOL anymore and have gone to haha and emoji. 🙂
Country Joe says
LOL
Shane says
But there isn’t a better comedy GTLD on the market so maybe it will be used to represent comedy.
Tt says
If google registered a .lol, everyone would be saying the .com reign is over…lol..smh….these extensions are hilarious!
David says
I also see indications ‘LO’L is a lot less used now vs the past, i.e. the iPhone smiley face icon, or ‘haha’ seems to be far more often used, which I see a lot of recently, especially in text messages, with smiley face used by older people and haha by the young and teens.
One more issue about so many seemingly non-obvious value names being registered in bulk and in numerous new tlds, not just in .LOL. I don’t get it because what with exact match (non-single-word) name inquiries in .com and .org looking weak and slow how could all the little or no value and EMDs in the new tld’s be considered a good investment?