The new gTLD .Education opens up for live registrations on April 2nd but of course had a Sunrise period early for trademark holders and its in the final day of the Early Access Program.
Going through the zone file I only found only three what you would consider major, 4 year brick and mortar universities that applied for a .Education domain;
Arizona State University registered ArizonaState.education, ArizonaStateuniversity.education, Sundevil.education and Sundevils.education.
Auburn University registered AuburnUniversity.education (Auburn.Education is reserved or on the ICANN blocked list)
The University of Colorado registered UniversityofColorado.education (Colorado.education is reserved or on the ICANN blocked list)
I found three more 4 year colleges that registered a .education domain;
Davidson College which is located in North Carolina registered Davidson.education and DavidsonCollege.education
Lake Michigan College registered the domain name LakeMichiganCollege.education
Northwestern Christian University whose current site is nwcu.edu registered NorthwesternChristianUniversity.education
The University of South Australia registered the Universityofsouthaustralia.education.
There were a few registrations from online universities and education programs including;
barbri.education
bell.education
berlitz.education
concordia.education
mosesbrown.education
Several community colleges got an .education domain including:
gatewaycommunitycollege.education
glendalecommunitycollege.education
maricopacommunitycolleges.education
mckinleycollege.education
mesacommunitycollege.education
phoenixcollege.education
scottsdalecommunitycollege.education
southmountaincommunitycollege.education
Although not schools I did see a couple of interesting registrations:
MayoClinic.education was registered to the very famous hospital
YMCA.education was registered by the organization not the Village People
The domain names, Book.education and Books.education were registered yesterday on EAP 4 by Domain Licenses Limited of London who used brand protection company and registrar comlaude.co.uk
Of course there is a .edu domain for accredited institutions which has been around as long as .com. .Edu is shorter and of course has been used for over 25 years so I think .education would be most valuable to a generic buyer.
Why .education exist anyways.
I’ll go with a .edu first..
@Xavier, so it is not only me… everyone else, just compare:
nwcu.edu
vs
NorthwesternChristianUniversity.education
Schools are not just for people who could spell in English
Concordia.education – Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (a brick & mortar university)
MayoClinic.education – one of the premier residency ‘schools’ for medical students
Cheers,
Steve
i’m surprised .education was even allowed since .edu exists. is there also going to be a .commerce and .network??
Titletown.education 🙂
I agree cmac why this was allowed with .edu makes little sense IMO.
@Xavier & cmac:
agreed.
there are tons duplicative new gTLDs that will splinter the sectors they intend to serve:
.CONSTRUCTION, .CONTRACTORS, .BUILD, .BUILDERS
.PHOTOGRAPHY, .PHOTOS, .PICS, .PICTURES
.LAWYER, .ATTORNEY, .LAW, .ESQ
…and more
also some gTLDs serve industry segments that are routinely combined:
.CLOTHING, .SHOES, .LUXURY, .FASHION
also the GEO gTLDs (like .BERLIN & .NYC) will compete for local businesses across industries:
Pizza.NYC vs. nyc.PIZZA, restaurant.NYC vs. nyc.RESTAURANT
this is going to be enough to cause dyslexia.
oooooooooooo the confusion OMG the confusion.. not really.
anyone complaining about remembering nycRESTAURANT.com / RESTAURANTnyc.com ?
but that dot… that extra dot.. just puts my brain on overload. how ever will we make it!??!
@ontheintereb:
just because you haven’t heard any explicit complaints doesn’t mean there is no confusion.
Transposing words has been shown to cause confusion in cognitive processing. Odd that the scientific journals didn’t update you personally.
You didn’t bother to address the first point about gTLDs that have analogous meanings. Please be sure to enlighten us with your omnipotent opinion… and be sure to overdramatize it with sarcastic inner-dialog.
@”Dr” James
sure, can i use cool sounding $20 words like you too?
hey – so there are 112,000+ million .COM domain names in existence. ill bet if you try “keeping track” of similar names you wont be able to. surprise!
but for poops and giggles lets just use one…. how is it we find our way to downtownchicagoeatery.com when it COULD be chicagoeaterydowntown.com, eaterychicagodowntown.com, downtowneaterychicago.com
oh my!
no wait, maybe it was eatdowntownchicago.. oh shit, there WAS a “y” ??? so its eatery. hold on, let me enter this into my brute force domain-figuring-out system and ill have it for you in 6-10 minutes once i’ve exhausted all the options.
yea.. 3 words with a .COM = nobody will ever forget it
2 words with a dot in the middle = disaster
@ontheinnerweb
thanks for using your signature sarcastic inner-dialog to inarticulately spew your point. and props overdramatizing it like a Kardasian. You should buy yourself a few $20 words to sound marginally literate.
Sidebar: no one said multi-word .com domains were free of confusion – just that the geo & sector keyword gTLDs introduce potential for more confusion.
Moreover, you neglected to address the point about the new gTLDs with similar meanings. I eagerly await your genius insight on this.
sorry “Dr” its hard for me to use $20 words when im not even wearing pants. gTLD with similar meanings are obviously the end of the world and the most confusing thing to ever hit the internet.
let me put on my suit and tie to address this…. although you may want to loosen your tie because, oh wait… my previous example applies to similar .gtld as well.
would you get this set of domains confused? :
ChicagoClothing.com
ChicagoShoes.com
ChicagoLuxury.com
ChicagoFashion.com
no, a little bit, not at all? so how is it anymore confusing than this:
CHICAGO.CLOTHING
CHICAGO.SHOES
CHICAGO.LUXURY
CHICAGO.FASHION
are you saying when you see ChicagoClothing.com advertised on TV you have trouble remembering whether it may have been ChicagoShoes.com or ChicagoLuxury.com ?
this is a problem you’ve been having?
@ontheshortbus:
Well, then maybe you should put on your bigboy pants, if that is the cause of your limited vocabulary.
Note that my initial comments referred to business “sectors” – the problem is in splintering the market of potential domain buyers. The point is that the gTLDs with similar meanings are competing for domain sales to the same businesses. The confusion to consumers is a secondary issue.
A question for you – would you be content building your Chicago.fashion business website (or ChicagoFashion.com) with competition from the domains you cited? This is why many businesses buy similar domains to prevent neighboring competitors. The new gTLDs just multiply the potential competing domains far beyond the existing demand.
At this point there is a clear adoption problem (point of this thread). Although the lack of businesses adopting the new gTLDs will help to reduce the potential for consumer confusion.
Does any of this ‘unbunch’ your panties?
ontheinterweb wrote:
“oooooooooooo the confusion OMG the confusion.. not really.”
I’ll agree with ontheinterweb on this. There will be absolutely no confusion for the vast majority of Internet surfers, because they don’t even know .Education exists.
The rest of what he writes is his trademark obsessive gTLD ranting, which isn’t worth the time to read, let alone argue about… unless you enjoy that kind of time-wasting activity, of course.
yeah, going against “popular domainer opinion” = obsessive
but its productive conversation when we all sit around and agree giving each other “it will be alright nothing will change” pats on the back.
there there guys…
cmoc
There is an application for .network
As long as Google treats the gTLD the same across the board, we’ll be ok.