Soldato
Interesting!
New Top-Level Domains
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Soldato
Yeah we've pre-reg'd about 20 of those 12th ones with Vidahost. It's a bit like Olympics tickets - might get none or might get all and regret investing so much money!
Caporegime
That's because they were the only TLDs available... so of course the only sites you see are those ending .com etc.
bbc.sport makes better sense than sport.bbc. As does cnn.sport fox.sport etc.
I can only see this becoming confusing for the average joe. Currently people hear or see a web address www.bbc.co.uk and can associate it with being a web URI easily. When that becomes www.bbc (or just bbc) there's no obvious way of saying "That's a web address" for the average user. I hate to say it but we may need to think up a new syntax for displaying them. Twitter hashtags kinda work as much as I hate them. Perhaps we'll need to start displaying web addresses with a / in front. e.g. /google /bbc /sport.bbc and get everyone to re-learn the syntax.
Either way, it's both unnecessary and pointless as well as expensive for businesses.
That said, I'm quite happy none of the TLDs are shorter than three letters. It keeps the value in the single character ccTLDs I own, at least.
Either way, it's both unnecessary and pointless as well as expensive for businesses.
That said, I'm quite happy none of the TLDs are shorter than three letters. It keeps the value in the single character ccTLDs I own, at least.
If they introduced a cap on the amount domain names could be sold for then we wouldn't need these extra TLDs. It's just difficult to get anything memorable these days. I have one site that's a .org as the .com has been purchased since 2003 yet they still want £650,000 for it. A few grand and its affordable whilst still making these plebs some money and then a startup has the ability to have a memorable name.
Soldato
hmmm tempted to get a .photography but have just seen the prices from £20 via Vida.
but £15 from Go Daddy
but £15 from Go Daddy
Soldato
Don't touch GoDaddy.
Soldato
ta for the heads up 
Still not sure! ....lol
Still not sure! ....lol
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Soldato
ta for the heads up
Just to expand, they are known to send out threatening emails upon domain renewal to confuse people etc. I always avoid big named companies and go for the smaller ones personally.
Soldato
Been with vida since 2011, though they are slightly more expensive ive never had an issue and the tech support is awesome.
going to read more in to this and see if its actually worth £20 or just park more subs for £6 a pop
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I personally avoid TSO or Vida or that bunch of companies. I'm slowly moving everything away from my TSO account to my Simplexwebs account.
Had a domain though TSO which expired. Paid the ~£7 invoice but no cigar because the domain was already expired and their automated system didn't know what to do.
Anyway raised a support ticket and they wanted £60 to simply register the same domain again.
Went to EuroDNS and registered the same domain literally a few minutes later for about £5.
Didn't even bother replying to their attempt at extortion and I let them keep the £7 as well.
Had a domain though TSO which expired. Paid the ~£7 invoice but no cigar because the domain was already expired and their automated system didn't know what to do.
Anyway raised a support ticket and they wanted £60 to simply register the same domain again.
Went to EuroDNS and registered the same domain literally a few minutes later for about £5.
Didn't even bother replying to their attempt at extortion and I let them keep the £7 as well.
The domains are about £15-20 a year, which if you really hold a valuable trademark is nothing.
Soldato
Applied for like 30 of ones that have already been released and got none. Meh.
Had a domain though TSO which expired. Paid the ~£7 invoice but no cigar because the domain was already expired and their automated system didn't know what to do.
Anyway raised a support ticket and they wanted £60 to simply register the same domain again.
Went to EuroDNS and registered the same domain literally a few minutes later for about £5.
Didn't even bother replying to their attempt at extortion and I let them keep the £7 as well.
It sounds like there was some confusion over the domain and it being in redemption. The £60 fee would have been a redemption charge which is charged by the registry between day 30 and day ~80 to get the domain back.
If it had already dropped and was available to register then whoever you spoke to has made a mistake.
