Reglikedomain industry desk

This stretch’s fresh TLDs: .Melbourne, .Restaurant and more

This stretch’s fresh TLDs: .Melbourne, .Restaurant and more

A big geo among this stretch’s fresh TLD releases.

I’ve been a bit remiss regarding my weekly fresh TLD posts, perhaps since the past couple Mondays have been busy news days. That, and fresh TLD rollouts have slowed down to a trickle.

But I’m not late this stretch, as all the TLD launches I can find are Wednesday releases.

The biggest is .Melbourne (see picture of ribbon cutting below), which launched Wednesday local time in Australia (technically 23:00UTC on November 11). This will be an interesting geo domain to watch.

Three of Donuts’ domain names revert to regularly priced general availability today: .restaurant, .gifts and .sarl.

SARL is like a limited liability firm, used in France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Monaco and a number of other countries. I believe this is the first “corporate identifier” top level domain to be released in general availability; .LTDA is also coming soon.

Finally, Rightside’s .engineer enters the Early Access Program, and will revert to regular pricing a week from today.

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