Automattic and .blog Domains

[chris]

An article on Automattic's acquisition of the .blog extension from a popular WordPress news site.

.blog domains will be available to anyone around the world. A WordPress.com site is not required when registering a .blog domain. You don’t even have to use WordPress.

Automattic could have restricted the .blog domain particularly to the WordPress users similar to what I think Google would have done with Blogspot, but they have decided to keep it open for everyone.

That is why Matt Mullenweg expects to activate nearly 250,000 new domain names just in the year 2016.

I'm still not sure I'd recommend building out a separate .blog, but it'll be an interesting extension to watch:

http://wplift.com/blog-domains-wordpress