The other thing is that if you want to link up to Ebay and at least one other that I’ve run across, they don’t supported some of the new TLD’s for email addresses etc … they need to do updates in their internal systems to support them and as of 6 month ago they didn’t support it yet - not a huge deal but none the less..
> On Oct 10, 2016, at 6:01 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Man, Godaddy wants a pile of money for surge.protection > > Considering Surge-Protection.org > > -----Original Message----- From: Seth Mattinen > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 3:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Domain Names > > On 10/10/16 14:27, Chuck McCown wrote: >> I am going to scoop up a few domain names and point them to my site. >> Things like surgeprotectors.com are gone. Someone is camping on them. >> >> So, looking at variations like surge-protection >> Adding a plural. Not sure what non alphanumeric typographical >> characters are allowed other than the hyphen. >> >> Is there any prohibitions against using any TLD like .org? >> Is a .org or .info equivalent to a .com when you are looking for stuff? >> >> Lots of .co, .us and .biz out there. Should be equivalent but perhaps not? >> >> Need opinions. > > > There's a metric ass ton of TLDs now so none of that matters anymore. > Except like gov and edu. > > You could probably even do surge.protection since that's a TLD now. > > I have a customer that's a contractor that started using the > "contractors" TLD instead of the traditional ones. > > I registered roller.network a while back since minus the dot it's > literally the company name. Haven't started using it because I'm not > sure people are used to seeing TLDs like that yet. > > ~Seth
