The national extension of Mexico, .MX, will be hanlf price throughout the month of September at Gandi.net!

Useful for sites having to do with Mexico or email servers (MX = mail server in Internetspeak), .MX domains will cost just $24.00 to create until September 30, 2015 instead of the usual $48.00, at A rates. That gives us a genius idea. A taco truck where you email or text them your order and then pick it up in five minutes. Call it TXT MX. Now if only the domain txt.mx were available ...

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For some reason the Dutch seem to have a one-up on us in everything. Bicycling is ubiquitous and safe in the Netherlands. Along with bikes, windmills and canals are leading the country in being green. And speaking of green, of course, the Netherlands are also famous for their drug policy. And the crown jewel of it all is Amsterdam, with its colorful and whimsical canal-side houses and an honestly awesome-looking flag (seriously, look it up).

Now we feel like they have a one-up on us yet again with a cool new gTLD. Though last month, we celebrated the romance of New Amsterdam, now it's time for the Old World charm of .amsterdam, now available in the GoLive phase for $57.37 per year at A rates. We're tempted to make a joke about bieng like the little Dutch boy holding back the flood of registrations but .amsterdam is really just too cool for that.

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Racing back to school? You can have your winning site up in time for class, and still not blow all your lunch money: Names in the .RACING and .WIN top-level domains are yours for only $1 each, until October 19!

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This week's theme for name collision domains being released by Donuts may seem boring to some, but it has us on the dark side of the moon hearing wailing saxophones, soaring guitar solos, and of course cash register sound effects.

This week's category is for the high-fidelity, first-class-traveling set: Financial. This is for all things money, especially how you manage it.

And speaking of money, here's how the release schedule works out this week:

    Day 1 (August 26, 2015 at 16:00 UTC): +$12,667

    Day 2 (August 27, 2015 at 16:00 UTC): +$4,222
    Day 3 (August 28, 2015 at 16:00 UTC): +$1,778
    Day 4 (August 29, 2015 at 16:00 UTC): +$945
    Days 5-7 (August 30-September 1, 2015 at 16:00 UTC): +$189

Click one of the links below to see the list of domains now available and if you're feeling more fiscally conservative, wait until the EAP is over and buy them for the regular prices at A rates listed to the right:

• .accountants: $125.74
• .capital: $63.04
• .cash: $38.34
• .claims: $63.04
• .credit: $125.74
• .creditcard: $160.93
• .exchange: $38.34
• .finance: $63.04
• .financial: $63.04
• .fund: $63.04
• .insure: $63.04
• .investments: $124.68
• .limited: $38.34
• .loans: $125.74
• .tax: $63.04

Only one more category to go after this one:

   September 2, 2015 : Travel (.cruises, .dating, .events, .flights, .holiday, .reisen, .singles, .vacations, .viajes, .voyage)

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Our memories of soccer are of shin guards under tube socks with velcro elastic straps digging into our calves, sucking on orange slices at half time and of course running, running, running in cleats, kicking up little bullets of dirt, chasing the ball down the flat, green pitch.

The rest of the world just calls it football, and in most places it's by far the most popular sport. Pick-up games are played from the dust of the Sahara to asphalt 9,000 feet above sea level in the Andes and everywhere in between.

But in North America we have a unique relationship with .soccer. For the longest time, it was something of a punchline, a silly thing that they do in other parts of the world but that doesn't compare to real football.

However, it seems it's is really making in-roads around here, so we have high hopes for the future of the sport in the land where we call it soccer. That's why we're excited that .soccer is entering the GoLive phase today. Domains under this extension will be available for $27.05 a year at A rates.

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In the beginning, there was just one line. And you were either on it or off it. Then, with telephones, you could start connecting lines, and modems starting bringing us all online and what used to be one line became a web. Today there are literally millions of criss-crossing, intersecting "lines." It's harder now to be offline than online.

Online dating, for example, has been a favorite subject of sensationalized media for upwards of twenty years now but how many relationships don't have an online component? How many partners never send each other emails or tag each other in social media posts? The number is dwindling by the day.

And you don't have to work remotely anymore to work online. In some places, the virtual office space is larger than the real one.

Which is why there's no better time to be .online.

For this GoLive, we're bringing .online online with a sweet promotion: .online domains will be discounted to $12.49 per year at all rates from 9:00 AM PDT on August 26, 2015 until 2:00 PM PDT October 25, 2015, at which point .online domains will go back up to their normal price of $51.67 per year (at A rates).

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It's .hockey night at Gandi!

That doesn't mean we're strapping our roller-skates on and skating through Camp Snoopy to get the team back together, but we will crosscheck anyone who calls us hosers (you're warned, cake-eaters).

Okay, here are the rules:
- .hockey is open to everyone
- .hockey domains can be between 1 to 63 alphanumeric characters
- IDN is allowed (good news for fans of Canuck great Jean Béliveau)
- No high-sticking
- No fighting

You do that and you go to the box, you know, by yourself, and you feel shame.

Domains in .hockey are now available for $68.09 per year.

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There is a kind of primal joy in seeing a .dog .run across an open field.

Next time you get a chance, look at those ears flopping around, the tongue hanging out of its mouth, and see if you don't notice its eyes gleaming with pure ecstasy and freedom.

Now entering the GoLive phase, both .dog and .run are now avalable for all to register. A .dog domain will run you $41.41 per year and a .run is only as demanding as $27.05 per year, both at A rates.

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It was already last October when .nyc entered the GoLive phase, but it was reserved for individuals, organizations, and businesses with an address in one of the five boroughs. For those who don't meet those qualifications, a couple of new gTLDs are entering the GoLive phase that have us dreaming of the tough and romantic city of New York.

Sure, these days New York is better known for the touristy garishness of Times Square or hipster coffee shops in Brooklyn, but we're still dreaming of the New York stirred by the sweeping strings of Gerswhin, still a town that exists in black-and-white like in old movies, the New York of Shakespeare in the park, and fireworks over Manhattan.

Today's GoLive has us dreaming of that old romantic New York, with .taxi, (as much a symbol of classic New York as the Chrysler building) reminding us of streets packed with yellow cars, and .theater, reminding us of a city always humming with the creative buzz both on and off Broadway.

You can pick up a .taxi for $68.09 (less than a fare from mid-town, most days), and a .theater for the same $68.09, at A rates.

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If you are literally sick of waiting for the next round of former name collision domains to be released as part of Donuts's EAP program, we're here to tell you: we have the cure.

That's right, this week's category is Healthcare. Actually on second thought if you are literally sick maybe you should see a real doctor.

Honestly we're surprised to see that any name collision domains would appear in this category. We've never heard of anything involving healthcare ever being the least bit controversial, so we're totally stumped on this one.

In any case, here's how the release schedule looks for these domains:

    Day 1 (August 19, 2015 at 16:00 UTC): +$12,667

    Day 2 (August 20, 2015 at 16:00 UTC): +$4,222
    Day 3 (August 21, 2015 at 16:00 UTC): +$1,778
    Day 4 (August 22, 2015 at 16:00 UTC): +$945
    Days 5-7 (August 23-25, 2015 at 16:00 UTC): +$189

And here's the list of TLDs, linked to the ICANN spreadsheet of released name collision domains, with the normal prices listed to the right:

• .care: $38.34
• .clinic: $63.04
• .dental: $63.04
• .fitness: $38.34
• .healthcare: $63.04
• .surgery: $63.04
• .vision: $38.34

As a reminder, here's the whole schedule of categories from Donuts:

    June 10, 2015 : Photography (.camera, .digital, .gallery, .graphics, .media, .pictures, .photography, .photos, .productions)
    June 17, 2015 : Business (.agency, .associates, .careers, .company, .enterprises, .holdings, .industries, .international, .management, .partners, .sarl, .services, .solutions, .ventures)
    June 24, 2015 : Generic & Fun (.cool, .church, .center, .exposed, .fail, .gripe, .guide, .life, .place, .today, .wtf, .zone)
    July 1, 2015 : Technology (.codes, .computer, .directory, .domains, .email, .technology, .systems)
    July 8, 2015 : Education (.academy, .education, .expert, .foundation, .guru, .institute, .schule, .support, .tips, .training, .university)
    July 15 2015 : Foods and Goods (.bike, .cards, .clothing, .coffee, .diamonds, .fish, .furniture, .pizza, .recipes, .restaurant, .shoes, .toys, .watch)
    July 22, 2015 : Shopping (.bargains, .boutique, .cheap, .deals, .direct, .discount, .gifts, .gratis, .tienda)
    July 29, 2015 : Property (.camp, .city, .community, .condos, .estate, .farm, .house, .land, .lease, .maison, .properties, .rentals, .town, .villas)
    August 5, 2015 : Building (.builders, .construction, .contractors, .equipment, .glass, .kitchen, .parts, .repair, .solar, .supply, .supplies, .tools, .work)
    August 12, 2015 : Services (.cab, .catering, .cleaning, .engineering, .florist, .lighting, .limo, .marketing, .plumbing)
    August 19, 2015 : Healthcare (.care, .clinic, .dental, .fitness, .healthcare, .surgery, .vision)
    August 26, 2015 : Financial (.accountants, .capital, .cash, .claims, .credit, .creditcard, .exchange, .finance, .financial, .fund, .insure, .investments, .limited, .loans, .tax)
    September 2, 2015 : Travel (.cruises, .dating, .events, .flights, .holiday, .reisen, .singles, .vacations, .viajes, .voyage)

Hopefully that didn't make you nauseous. If it did our prescription is wait for next week's category. But actually, see a doctor. Seriously.

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