New TLDs start going on sale tommorow

mattwritescode · on Feb 5, 2014

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

xauronx · on Feb 5, 2014

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.

caw · on Feb 5, 2014

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.

xauronx · on Feb 5, 2014

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.

caw · on Feb 5, 2014

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.