What’s .Next?

A frequent DNW reader sets in motion plans for a fresh TLD.

In my daily perusal of U.S. trademark applications I came across another potential top level domain today: .Next (Not to be confused with the .nxt conference).

More interestingly, I recognized the name of the applicant: Mansour Elseify.

Elseify is a frequent reader and commenter on Reglike and owner of DomainsNext.com, a Tucows reseller that has been in business for 10 years.

So I reached out to him to find out what he’s up to.

“I was always behind the shadow as a reseller for ItsYourDomain and now Tucows, and I thought it is time for me to come up with the next big thing following .com,” he wrote via email. “It would be .next.”

Elseify has a registered trademark for Domains Next.com.

That’s regarding all he would tell me for now. But you can add this to your watchlist…