.Whoswho a new gTLD went into general availability on March 2nd.
Today on March 4th.
According to ntldstats.com there are a whopping 21 registrations two days into GA, including any domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise period.
A .whoswho domain name registration is priced at $90 at 101domain.com and $99 at encirca.com
The new gTLD is not being carried by any of the top 10 domain name registrars.
Like any other new gTLD the applicant paid $185,000 for to ICANN for the rights to operate the extension and are on the hook to pay $25K a year ongoing to ICANN minimum.
21 registrations is a disaster.
The whole domain world is polluted by some senseless tld’s in my humble opinion. We need to wait and see how many get renewed after one year.
The average cost to operate gTLD is about $60,000 per year (185k + 25k per year for 4 more years). So to break even at $100 per domain name, you need sell 600 domain names per year. It might not sound like a lot of people, but considering that this is a very English and U.S. centric extension and unique names are still available for hand registration in .com.
But, Mike, how will anybody know that you’re successful and important unless they look you up at MichealBerkens.whoswho?
For decades there has been no way to achieve personal prominence on the internet or build an online reputation. So it’s good that these innovators have finally arrived to solve such a pressing problem.
Remember .com is the King Just like Elvis he has been dead for 40 years and he is still the KING You can try any gtld extension and they won’t work Remember .co on Go Daddy the big push where is it today GONE
.com and soon 3D.com when the 3D Internet comes
Joseph
Thought we solved that major problem with .Tel