Fresh TLDs this stretch: .Tokyo, .Moe, .Consulting and more
Two Japan-focused domains kick off the week.
It’s another busy week for fresh top level domain names, counting a big .city domain name hitting registrar’s shelves on Tuesday.
Tuesday
Tuesday sees the launch of two Japan-focused domain names…in English.
The biggie is .Tokyo, by far the most populous city TLD to enter general availability thus far.
At least one Reglike reader thinks it will take a big shift in habits for people in Japan to promote or actually type in a .tokyo domain name…or any domain, for that matter.
We’ll have to see.
One thing is for sure…the price is right. 101domain.com has these for only $13.99 a year.
.Moe also launches on Tuesday. It’s not a domain name for people named Moe. As stated by its website:
The word “moe” (in Japanese: “萌え”; pronounced as “moh-ay”) is a slang word rooted deep in the Japanese Otaku culture. It has often been used to mean a particular type of “adorable” or “cute” towards fictional characters, people, animals, etc.
I’ll leave it up to someone from Japan to tell me how popular this term is. Domains are regarding $20 retail.
I believe that Valuetainment AG will launch .Voting on Tuesday as well. Its website is very uninformative, but 101domain.com shows the domain becoming available on Tuesday. It is charging $69.99 per year.
Wednesday
Rightside launches two domain names on Wednesday: .Kaufen (“Buy” in German) and .consulting. The latter ought to do quite well over time despite its length. Lots of consulting firms use “Consulting” in their names.
Donuts has four domain names coming off EAP and four more entering.
.Media, .pictures, .associates and .lease all revert to regular pricing Wednesday.
.Reisen, .toys, .university and .town enter EAP.
I think University will be interesting. Universities rushed to protect their domain names when .xxx came out a number of years ago as fresh of the domain name made the rounds with IT administrators. Will the same thing happen with .university?
(Thanks to Calzone for much of the information used in this post.)
