Donuts Wins The Rights To Operate The New gTLD .Cafe Beating Out Co. That Runs .Bar/.Rest

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Donuts has picked up another new gTLD extension winning the rights to .Cafe, beating out Punto 2012 the registry that runs .Bar and .Rest.

The new gTLD string .Cafe was scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort auction later this Month.

Other new gTLD’s that touch .cafe include .Restaurant, which is operated by Donuts

.Eat was applied for by Google

.Food is in contention by three parties

.Rest one of the two strings owned by Punto 2012 and is meant to be a shortener for .Restaurant

 

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.

Comments

    • h4ck3r says

      Not sure how Punto expects to succeed owning the second best gTLDs in their chosen niches. That’s worse than not owning the best keyword.com. .Rest but not .Restaurant? .bar but no .café? The only hope they have is that the owner of .restaurant and .café has a desire to buy them out of .bar and get the monopoly in the future. Unlikely.