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.NINJA domains are available in exactly 2 weeks

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4 pointspizzabro7 comments

Serious question, is it even possible for the so-called "little guy" or "mom and pop" to acquire one of the new domains coming out?

If so, how? during the last group of .tech, etc, the land-grab was incredibly quick.

Say there is a new .petstore domain, how can mom and pop buy theirs before Acme Inc mass purchases them all. (Pick any major city.bike, for example, and it has already been snatched up by places like Domainsales.com)

Yea, it's pretty easy to get a good new domain. You can use pre-registration on sites like name.com and they basically compete with bigger companies on your behalf. The second a new domain name becomes available, they do everything in their power to be the winning registrar and get you the domain name you pre-registered.

A place like Domainsales.com is probably putting in pre-registrations on a lot of registrars, which increases their chance of winning the name because they then have multiple registrars trying to acquire the same domain name for them.

Many registrars are offering priority preregistration of domains, but this includes a non-refundable fee of at least $100. So in order to secure rockstar.ninja, for example, you would need to perform priority registration at all registrars (Name.com, GoDaddy, etc.) which process .ninja domain names. I doubt being out hundreds to thousands of dollars in non-refundable fees would be worth it to secure all but the best domain name.

Name.com doesn't have a fee. If you don't get the name you pre-register, you get a full refund.

In that case, they should update the wording on their site to make that clearer. It currently reads:

  "Place an early preorder for your best chance to secure this domain.
   * Includes $100.00 non-refundable application fee. Annual renewal: $20.99"

"Non-refundable" doesn't have any qualifiers to it, such as "non-refundable upon successful registration". In the info-box below, it states:

  "You will receive a full refund if we are unable to secure the domain name
   for you."

Refunding a non-refundable amount is like dividing zero by zero.

Exciting, but I'm still holding out for .PIRATE...

Not sure if that's coming... I think .HORSE is coming though. :)

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