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New TLDs start going on sale tommorow

10 pointsRabidgremlin5 comments

.plumber, .bike, .holdings, .singles, .ventures, .guru and .clothing

A bunch of others through out February (NZ times):

.BIKE 6 Feb 2014 5AM

.CLOTHING 6 Feb 2014 5AM

.GURU 6 Feb 2014 5AM

.HOLDINGS 6 Feb 2014 5AM

.PLUMBING 6 Feb 2014 5AM

.SINGLES 6 Feb 2014 5AM

.VENTURES 6 Feb 2014 5AM

.CAMERA 13 Feb 2014 5AM

.EQUIPMENT 13 Feb 2014 5AM

.ESTATE 13 Feb 2014 5AM

.GRAPHICS 13 Feb 2014 5AM

.LIGHTING 13 Feb 2014 5AM

.PHOTOGRAPHY 13 Feb 2014 5AM

.CONSTRUCTION 20 Feb 2014 5AM

.CONTRACTORS 20 Feb 2014 5AM

.DIRECTORY 20 Feb 2014 5AM

.KITCHEN 20 Feb 2014 5AM

.LAND 20 Feb 2014 5AM

.TECHNOLOGY 20 Feb 2014 5AM

.TODAY 20 Feb 2014 5AM

.DIAMONDS 27 Feb 2014 5AM

.ENTERPRISES 27 Feb 2014 5AM

.TIPS 27 Feb 2014 5AM

.VOYAGE 27 Feb 2014 5AM

More to the point has anyone bought or going to buy a new gtld in the coming week?

I might do a quick search when I wake up for some obvious ones like bird.land, tech.tips, code.guru, things like that. Then again, I'm not sure how expensive they'll be or how fast the obvious ones will be snatched up.

Most of the obvious guru addresses are already gone, and GoDaddy is still doing preorders (5am NZ is still another hour from now).

I've seen a couple, but nothing that makes me want to spend $40 on.

Basically all generics are taken already (code, software, IT, devops, etc). Most languages are gone, except for Golang and Erlang. I checked a few frameworks, and RubyOnRails is still available, but stuff like Django is out.

I didn't do an exhaustive search though.

Oh, interesting. I assumed that since they had a specific date and time they went on sale..... that's when you could start claiming them. Kind of doesn't make sense to me. I'm no domain mogul though, I just think they're fun to have.

You can preorder for $39.99, or priority preorder for $189.99. If you simply pre-order and multiple people pre-order, then it goes to auction. I assume everything it's telling me is "available" is available as a pre-order, and the ones that aren't are priority pre-orders.

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