ICANN moves .mobi & .jobs forward

[KwelX]

anyone know when the first day will be that we can reg these? and which registrar we can get them at? thanks.

please don't flame me if it's already been posted.

 

[mkx]

Good question

 

[Rubber Duck]

Last 24hrs (New registrations - Deletions)

22778 .com
6780 .info
4515 .net
1646 .org
893 .biz

Dot Info is bullshit. Do you see verisign giving away domain names. Most dot infos over the last month or too haven't even been registered by the registrants. When people who have domains registered on their behalf for nothing are asked to renew next year the fallout could easily wipe out the dot info registery. As it is the registry has nearly doubled its overheads for no increase in financial turnover.

Regards
Dave Wrixon

 

[Dave Zan]

I like blow.jobs even better.

Get that and hand.jobs, too. :-D

 

[NameRegistration]

.info is temporarily higher than .net because of all the free registration offers through MyDomain and other places where you can get 25 FREE .infos for a limited time.

That's true, I would like to see the trend of the .info in a year, when all the registrations from the offer expire.

 

[Source]

.mobi is garbage

C'mon... he put out a few good albums and won a grammy.

 

[mkx]

C'mon... he put out a few good albums and won a grammy.

So does anyone know when and where we can get these?

 

[gpmgroup]

Dot Info is bullshit. Do you see verisign giving away domain names. Most dot infos over the last month or too haven't even been registered by the registrants. When people who have domains registered on their behalf for nothing are asked to renew next year the fallout could easily wipe out the dot info registery. As it is the registry has nearly doubled its overheads for no increase in financial turnover.

Regards
Dave Wrixon

Domain names are going to get very cheap .info's are likely to be only $1 for the frist year of registration throughout 2005.

So you'd rather pay $10 a-very-very-long-bull-name.com than $1 shorter-name.info?

 

[seeker]

the cheap .info expires for all registrars by dec 31 AFAIK.
Afilias stops the promotion at that date

 

[gpmgroup]

the cheap .info expires for all registrars by dec 31 AFAIK.
Afilias stops the promotion at that date

I believe Afilias has applied to sell .info's to registrars @ $.75 for the whole of 2005. + .25$ for ICANN = $1, it also looks likely that it will be upto individual registrars to set their prices like in the current prommotion.

 

[Rubber Duck]

Domain names are going to get very cheap .info's are likely to be only $1 for the frist year of registration throughout 2005.

So you'd rather pay $10 a-very-very-long-bull-name.com than $1 shorter-name.info?

Not at all, the majority of our domains are single character IDNs in the major asian languages. Much of the surge in English Language Dot coms will end in tears, although I did sell a 15 letter dot net for 950 € recently.

Most of these dot infos will drop next year even before the main domain drop specialists don't even bother to track them.

Regards
Dave WRixon