GoDaddy announced on Friday that it is now tolerant pre-registrations for new gTLDs .UNO, .MENU, .BUILD and .LUXURY.
Spanish speakers, restaurant owners, contractors and builders, as well as companies look to aim a more affluent audience, are all customers who may desire to pre-register for the initial gTLDs obtainable at GoDaddy, according to the statement.
“Domain name are fundamentally 21st century real estate that make your namespace on the Internet,” GoDaddy vice president domains Rich Merdinger said. “The fresh identification options will open up important list and give business owners and entrepreneurs, and the public in universal, more pertinent choices that are exact to their business or location.”
While the domains will not be available until early next year, customers who pre-register will move on to the front of the line. When registration opens, GoDaddy will work with the registry to safe the domain name, and when successful, the pre-registered domain name will appear in the customer’s account. If numerous people demand the same domain name, it will be put to sale for those competing in the pre-registration step.
“We’ve heard from a group of customers asking when they can start registering these new extensions,” GoDaddy vice president and general manager domains Mike McLaughlin said. “Offering pre-registrations is a huge step forward for this procedure. We anticipate as more names come online, the insist will augment. These latest names open up several more choices for consumers, which are enormous for the industry, and great for consumers.”
If GoDaddy is unable to safe the domain name for the customer, the customer will take delivery of a full refund less any application fees. At this point, it is at rest unclear how much these new domains will cost.
GoDaddy is not the only registrar to offer pre-registration for new gTLDs. eNom and 1&1 have also obtainable customers portals in order to register new gTLDs of their choice.