A couple gripe domains launch along with a Chinese IDN and German domain name.
This week’s new TLD launches include an IDN, a German travel domain almost identical to one that launched last week, the usual handful of Donuts domains, plus a few new from Rightside.
On Tuesday, August 5, Hu Yi Global releases the IDN .网址. The Chinese domain name translates to “website”.
On Wednesday, dotreise GmbH will release .reise, which is German for travel. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Donuts launched .reisen just last week. I assume they’re just different tenses or forms of the word.
Rightside debuts two domain names on Wednesday, .actor and .rocks.
Donuts has four domain names entering the Early Access Program (EAP) and four coming out at regular pricing.
The four entering EAP are medical domains: .care, .clinic, .surgery and .dental.
.WTF, .fail, .financial and .limited exit EAP and revert to regular pricing.
couponpages says
WTF has to be one of the dumbest nTLDs I’ve seen to date. The very fact that it passed the entire ICANN application process while the only interpretation of those three letters is considered offensive is truly amazing.
Matt says
Reise is usually the noun (also a conjugation of the verb if it’s uncapitalized); reisen is the verb (unless it’s capitalized in which case it’s the gerund “traveling”). Probably you would translate them as Reise = trip, reisen = to travel. Both awesome TLDs for the travel-crazy German market!
Andrew Allemann says
Thanks Matt
James D. says
.wtf? Wtf? As for .fail, I’m still trying to come up with a word or phrase that makes sense.
Joseph Peterson says
HowTo.fail
makes sense.
jane says
YOU.FAIL springs to mind, as does DONT.FAIL but after that it takes too much brain power to care, IguessTHATSa.FAIL then 😉
couponpages says
The only non-offensive meaning I could think of is “Wednesday, Thursday, Friday”
Ms Domainer says
Negative gTLDs will not play well in Peoria because they are limited to what is the very worst on the internet.
.Review and .reviews can convey both positive and negative content and, therefore, have a better chance of limping out the gate with at least a small chance of succeeding.
couponpages says
“.Review and .reviews can convey both positive and negative content and, therefore, have a better chance of limping out the gate with at least a small chance of succeeding”
I agree. The weird thing is I originally promised myself I wouldn’t order ANY of the nTLDs, but somehow I ended up with about 20 .Reviews domains so far.
The big question is will the public care for any of them.
Unless Google follows through on their claim that they are taking new TLDs seriously, and we start seeing real nTLD sites in search results, the whole bubble will burst.
James D. says
I’m not entirely sure that there is yet a real “bubble” to burst?
couponpages says
With every new TLD that launches, for good or bad, the registries and registrars are pumping up the benefits of these new TLDs… pushing ultra-premium prices at much as $14,000 on priority registrations, encouraging people to buy… buy… buy as many of them as possible to protect their brand… etc.
It’s an absolute frenzy in some TLDs. When searching for available domains to hand register, I see worthless domains listed as “Premium”. In some cases, the “Premium” price is just for the first year, and in others even the renewal price is $279 or more.
The very fact that the nTLDs are almost always more expensive than .Coms is another bubble. Seeing annual rates in the hundreds of dollars is even worse.
At least some of the older TLDs acknowledged the fact that they were less valuable than .Coms, so they cost less than .Com. I think they get $5 per year or less for .US, and I’ve seen some TLDs like .info on sale for $2.99 or less.
Basic economics would lead us to believe that as the number of TLDs increases, the value of many will have to decrease… not increase. That’s what I see as a bubble.
Kif says
I think the premium prices serve two purposes. More profit for the registry and keeping spam domainers away. They don’t want parked domains or spammy website on their new tlds.
I don’t know about you but i am definitely not wasting my expensive domain on a spammy website, if i can help it, and there you have it, their strategy worked on me.
Xavier Lemay says
Almost a year later, I’ve renewed
Meme . wtf but wtf I don’t know why.