New gTLD's are out!

[DavidL]

http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en

Notable Aussie ones include

.afl
.compare (iSelecet)
.auspost
.barefoot (Gllo Vineyards?)
.cancerresearch (surely they would have better things to spend money on?)
.cba (and .commbank, .netbank etc)
.cfd
.forex
.nab
.sydney
.melbourne
.salon
.sbs
.seek
.seven
.spreadbetting
.tennis (4 applicants)
.yellowpages

 

[Shane]

Going after .yellowpages just shows how far behind Telstra/Sensis are. I guess the cost for a company of their size is nothing, but still, why???

I think .afl is one of the best ones. Having lions.afl and collingwood.afl etc is pretty cool from a branding perspective.

It will be interesting to see how Google treats the new extensions in terms of rankings.

 

[aus11]

Going after .yellowpages just shows how far behind Telstra/Sensis are. I guess the cost for a company of their size is nothing, but still, why???

I agree, with both YellowPages and CancerResearch, the first thing I thought is they are so long - no one is going to want to type that in...

Some interesting new gTLD's, but I can't really seeing the majority of them being successful.

 

[DavidL]

Going after .yellowpages just shows how far behind Telstra/Sensis are. I guess the cost for a company of their size is nothing, but still, why???

Yeah - it's like they know they were flatfooted with the rise of the internet so they just scratched their heads and thought 'What can we do to get get back there? I know, we'll register one of these new-fangled domain thingy's - that'll do it!'

I think .afl is one of the best ones. Having lions.afl and collingwood.afl etc is pretty cool from a branding perspective..

Agreed

 

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