PSA: New TLD's are available! Awesome domain names. Get yours before it's too late.

[TijmenDal]

Hi dudes,

I don't know if I'm late to the game, but many/most TLD's have been made available by now. A list of them can be found here:

https://www.name.com/new-gtld

Domain names with .photography, .video, .movie, .photos, .art (and many more) are now registerable.

I think it's pretty cool instead of the usual (and probably on-its-way-out .com, .org etc.)

They're only like ~20$ a year and I think well worth the money.

 

[plorr]

Thats actually really cool. Thanks for sharing. Willl probably purchase a .media or .productions and a .photo domain pretty soon.

 

[PacificRimJob]

Wow, I'll definitely be jumping in on one.

 

[Laurent.]

Damn, now you have forced me to spend money.

 

[edai]

I'm curious how this will affect URLs, maybe one of you guys knows more. So it said Google bought .youtube and others. Does this mean a possible URL could be;

www.(random characters).youtube?

As opposed to;

wwww.youtube.com/(random characters)

If so do you think many companies will be doing this?

 

[TijmenDal]

I've read a little into it and it seems to be so, that some of the new ones are public, while others are 'special' and can only be used if you apply for it (which apparently is very costly).

For example, the .photo TLD is apparently 25.000$ a year and can only be acquired if you have a photo related business. (kind of the same way an .xxx TLD can only be aquired if you're in the sexy-sexy business. .photos, .photography are both public, so I don't see a problem there.

I've decided on getting a .photography one. Pretty dope.

 

[Mag]

Am I missing something?

http://www.instra.com/en/domain-names/newgtld/photo-domain-registration/photo

also lol at everyone charging 25k for the .sucks one.

 

[Laurent.]

I'm going to get magnus.sucks and put up an image of your face, will be the best 25K I'll ever spend.

 

[TijmenDal]

I just bought Tijmen.Photography

Pretty cool.

Except my fucking host doesn't support the new TLD's. Fuck that. Now I have to switch hosts. Not too bad, because Fatcow isn't all that awesome anyway.

 

[PacificRimJob]

What hosts do support them? (for us not feeling like googling)

 

[SSteezle]

Do your own research, jesus. Were you spoon fed as a teenager?

 

[PacificRimJob]

Dude, get a fucking life. I posted that mostly to benefit all of us, not just myself.

 

[SSteezle]

if you want something to benefit all of us, why not just type it into google and relay the answer? You posting a question really isn't helping anybody...

 

[CrotchKiller]

jesus christ, your username doesn't do your demeanor justice

 

[TijmenDal]

Let's all chill here, okay?

Anyway, Fatcow (my old host; have since deleted my account and got a refund) didn't support them. They're part of EIG (a company that owns MANY big hosting sites, like Bluehost and Hostgator) so I don't know if any other of EIG's hosts will support the new TLD's.

I've registered my new domain at Namecheap and while they do support the new TLD's, I'd rather not have my registrar and host be the same company.