A Big .News Day
.News, one of the better fresh top level domain names, launches today.
Rightside launches its .News domain name today, and the firm is hoping it becomes one of the highlights of its fresh top level domain name portfolio.
.News has by now racked up regarding 1,000 registrations during the trademark sunrise and early access phases of registration. It becomes available for general registration today at 1 PM EDT. Registrars are offering the domains for regarding $20-$30.
“There’s a real appetite for .News,” Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu stated.
LGBT news service PinkNews is one early user. Pink.news right now forwards to its existing domain name pinknews.co.uk.
In the “all press is good press” category, yesterday’s spoofing of Bloomberg using Bloomberg.markets (another Rightside top level domain name) might spur more news organizations to protect their brands in .News.
A note on the fake site stated that Twitter was being purchased, and this caused shares in the social network to spike ahead of people actually spent a minute looking at the source.
.News slimmed down its premiums list for .News, but you can still expect to pay higher annual fees for the better domains.
