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Montreal Looks Like The Next City That Wants To Apply For Its Own New gTLD; .MTL

August 6, 2014 by Michael Berkens

According to the MontrealGazette.com, the city of Montreal seems to be the next city expressing Interest in applying for its own new gTLD, of .MTL

“It’s an interesting possibility for Montreal,” said city councillor Harout Chitilian, the vice chairperson of the city executive committee.

“We have to be creative to promote Montreal, and it’s a tool that we’ll take a serious look at.”

But that gives Montreal time to plan a .mtl initiative, if and when an opportunity comes around again.

A city domain name would allow local businesses, for example, to create a website address like: company.mtl.

It’s a potential revenue-generator for the city given that businesses, organizations and individuals pay for their Internet domain names.

Chitilian said Montreal would also seek a private partner to pony up the cash to register a city domain name if the project is deemed viable.

The only geographic region to apply for a new gTLD is .Quebec.

Personally we would not expect to see a second round opened up for applications until 2016 at the earliest and probably not until 2017.

 

 

 

Filed Under: New gTLD's

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. jeanguillon says

    August 7, 2014 at 4:48 am

    I hope they won’t make the mistake to apply for a .MTL instead of a .MONTREAL


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