As some of you already know, the General Availability period for Dot Website, Dot Press and Dot Host will start tomorrow instead of today.
There were a lot of launches this week but I’m probably not the only one who considers Dot Website the most interesting one to watch.
Why?
Mainly because since it’s a general “everything goes” new gTLD such as Dot XYZ or Dot Link rather than a niche extension, there are a *lot* of terms that make sense. Therefore, the expectations are high.
What do you think about the princing strategy chosen by the registry?
Also, is the similarity to Dot Web a negative element? On the one hand, it might be perceived that way but in a domaining world where we even have singular new gTLDs competing against plurals (Dot Accountant vs. Dot Accountants, for example), the “Dot Website vs. Dot Web” similarity issue no longer seems like that much of a big deal.
These two questions ultimately lead to the one which constitutes the title of today’s post:
Do you think the Dot Website new gTLD will do ok?
September 17th, 2014 at 5:18 pm
.Website has a lot of competition but that is not the problem for me.
My problem is that I can’t find anything to buy.
All domains are either reserved or $400-$5000 premiums.
It will do ok. Great? No.
September 17th, 2014 at 6:18 pm
This has had a lot of promotion so it should do ok compared to others launching recently.
September 17th, 2014 at 7:47 pm
Will it do well? No, why would it? It will divebomb just like all of the other incredibly stupid .crapollas
September 17th, 2014 at 10:40 pm
Nope not when you have .web hanging in the future.
September 18th, 2014 at 12:13 am
I registered a few .website domains ( nice 2 word huge niche domains) that I plan to develop. The reasoning is that I want to gauge how well they’ll do so that when .web comes out I know how much to wisely invest. My ultimate goal is get the .web but as for now .website shall do as the wait continues…