Network Solutions and Register.com, Web.com brands, 2 of the world’s top 10 registrars became .PW Registry’s 100th and 101st accredited partners respectively today.
According to a press release that we received today, “.PW – the Professional Web, has partnered with industry giants like eNom, Key-Systems, ResellerClub, Gandi, Name.com, Ascio and many more. With 100 registrars aggressively promoting the namespace, .PW is expected to attract a large volume of first-time domain name registrants”
“Many SMBs with whom we work look for a short and memorable name, which just is not available in .COM” said Jennifer Standiford, Director of Policy at Web.com. “.PW’s abundant availability of first-choice names will make it a prime alternative.”
“We’re excited to partner with Industry veterans like Network Solutions, Register.com and the Web.com Group. With many of the world’s top wholesale and retail registrars on board, we now have a perfectly balanced distribution channel to take .PW mainstream,” said Sandeep Ramchandani, Business Head of .PW.
Web.com will start offering .PW from the General Availability phase which starts on 25th March. PW is currently in the Landrush phase where multiple premium domain names like café.pw, pubs.pw, homeloans.pw and many more are available at non-premium rates.
There just are no words for this. lol
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Does anyone really care? In any developed country level market, the .com/ccTLD registrations axis accounts for approximately 80% of the domains registered in that country. People just don’t recognise these repurposed ccTLDS because they haven’t any brand recognitions in these countries. Most people will only ever immediately recognise their country’s own ccTLD, .com and perhaps the ccTLDs of adjacent countries.
This has to be one of the worst/lamest connotations/associations I ever heard…
.pw the Professional Web
does that make the rest un-professional”?
It’s getting people to think about the professional space and is a copycat for what .pro is trying to become. However the advantage is that even through it is not as good or clear of an extension as .pro they know how to market the extension and will most likely rope people into buying into it.
It’s amazing how these country code extensions can rebranded as gtld’s and aren’t held to any rules when .pro has suffered for years due to restrictions. I think it is a smart play on the part of .pw and ultimately could be good for .pro if .pw can do well.