UnitedDomains.com Starts Taking Free Pre-Reservations For new gTLD Domains

2011 March 11
by Michael H. Berkens

Pool.com has been taking pre-reservations for domain names for anticipated new gTLD extensions for well over a year.

Now another registrar, UnitedDomains.com started yesterday to accept the pre-reservations for some of  the anticipated new gTLD extensions including .gay, .hotels, .nyc, .berlin, .eco, .sfo and .film.

UnitedDomains.com has received almost 5,000 reservations as of time of publication.

There is no charge for the pre-registrations but of course no guarantee that these extensions will ever exist, nor that any of these domains will be registered to the pre-registration applicant.

UnitedDomains.com is also taking pre-reservations for .XXX which is not a new gTLD but which is up for approval next week in San Francisco.

However the sponsor of the .XXX extension, the ICM Registry has also taken pre-registrations of its own for a number of years.

17 Responses leave one →
  1. 2011 March 11

    a good question for a poll: “which new TLD you believe will have more successful?”

  2. 2011 March 11
    Simon permalink

    Blah…blah…blah….

    Ain’t gonna’ happen.

  3. 2011 March 11

    @Simon….how about dot BS

  4. 2011 March 11
    Simon permalink

    ccTLD values will go through the fookin roof once this “right-o-da-dot” talk stops. Watch…

  5. 2011 March 11
    Alan permalink

    I wonder if United Domains is a subsidy of Sedo??

  6. 2011 March 11

    ive got some .web pre registrations from 1999, wonder if theyre still good……

  7. 2011 March 11
    Cartoonz permalink

    Page, is Ambler still after that or did they successfully kick him to the curb? I need to dig up those cartoon videos that came out over all of that, they were really funny… scary accurate but funny;)

  8. 2011 March 11
    Landon White permalink

    I registered the new gTlD extension …
    .CrackHeads some time last year …

    NOW of course there is no guarantee that this extension will ever exist, nor that any of the
    my imaginary chosen domains will be registered to the ME the delusional pre-registration applicant.

    But hey, it beats watching the paint peel of the wall!

  9. 2011 March 11

    all these TLDs may have a big success if they will be managed by the .CO domains’ PR agency :)

  10. 2011 March 11
    Landon White permalink

    @ Domainers Gate

    LOL

    Sure lets waste a small fortune again on another Hype Failure, zzzz

    t

    @Domainers Gate

  11. 2011 March 11
    LS Morgan permalink

    They already tried .web.
    They called it “.info”.

  12. 2011 March 12

    @Landon

    over 600,000 .CO domains sold in few months isn’t a bad result

    of course, .CO never will become like .COM but some names are good, like e.co or mexi.co

    and I’ve many good .CA domains in mind if Canada will allow to buy .CA also from the rest of the world

  13. 2011 March 12

    .info

    I don’t like so much the .info domains (despite I own a few of them) but, so far, it is a “6.5 million registered domains’ flop” … over TEN times the .CO

  14. 2011 March 13

    Q: which of the already existing TLDs may have an huge success IF pumped up by a PR campaign as happened with .CO domains?

  15. 2011 March 13
    MHB permalink

    Domainers

    Good question.

    In my opinion when it comes to extensions you only get once chance to get it right, so re-branding and re-launching is much harder to do the second time.

    Having said that it is possible with a vision and a lot of marketing dollars.

    .travel IMHO would have a chance if it dropped all restrictions and did it the right way the second time around

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