Three more new gTLDs are entering the Golive phase on Monday, November 3, at 10:00 p.m. PDT (that's Tuesday, November 4 at 5:00 a.m. UTC).
The newcomers are .capetown, .durbanand.joburg, and although they are geographic TLDs, they are open to registration by all, regardless of your place of residence.
One-year registrations of any of these three new TLDs will cost $35.11 at A rates.
Note: If you're reading this before GoLive begins, we strongly encourage you to pre-register now. We'll submit your order at the earliest possible moment.
Five more new gTLDs, brought to you by the UnitedTLD registry, are entering the Sunrise phase.
.dentist and .rehab will be in Sunrise until December 13. The Landrush phase will begin December 21 at 9am PDT (16:00 UTC) and end on December 24 at 9am PDT.
.degree and .gives will enter Sunrise on November 4. The Landrush phase will last from January 11 to January 14, 2014, when GoLive begins.
Lastly, .forsale enters Sunrise on November 11, where it will remain until January 10, 2015. Its Landrush will begin on January 18, 2015 and will last until GoLive begins, on January 21, 2015.
Did you catch all that? Good. Here's the price list, including the corresponding Sunrise, Landrush and Golive prices of a one-year registration, all at A rates:
Note that .dentist is reserved to, you guessed it, dentists. You won't have to provide proof upon registration, but the registry reserves the right to request documentation at any time and suspend the domain if it's not provided.
Starting today, you can register a .cat for two years for the price of a one-year registration, which at A rates will cost you $13.00.
The promo is valid until the end of 2014.
Note: anyone can register a .CAT, but you must publish a website in the Catalan language within 6 months of registering the domain name. For more info, see the .cat info page.
The first one to enter GoLive is .engineer, which will become available for purchase by all at normal prices on 19 November 2014 at 9am PDT (16:00 UTC).
.auction and .software will enter GoLive on 10 December, also at 9am PDT (16:00 UTC).
The west coast always comes first, which is why Los Angeles has had .la for a very long time. But now the East Coast is catching up, with .nyc!
There are, of course, a few obvious businesses that should definitely focus on getting a .nyc. Bagel makers, pizza joints, and the odd deli now have a unique opportunity to remind everybody who has the best stuff in the Big Apple.
.NYC is reserved to individuals, organizations and businesses having an address in one of the five boroughs of New York City (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island), and it's entering GoLive today, Wednesday 8 October, 2014.
.nyc will cost $38.34 for a one-year registration at A rates.
The .nz namespace, previously restricted to third-level domains such as those ending in .co.nz, .net.nz, .org.nz, .ac.nz, etc, is being opened up to registrations of second-level .nz domains.
Holders of a third-level .nz domain name (e.g. a domain ending with .co.nz, .net.nz or .org.nz) have a Preferential Registration Eligibility (PRE), meaning you might be able to register the corresponding .nz domain name before anyone else. See below for details.
If there are no preexisting restrictions on a second level domain:
Names without corresponding co.nz, .net.nz or .org.nz names will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Holders of a third-level .nz domain name:
Depending on when your .nz domain name was registered, and if there are any other examples of your name in the .nz domain space, you'll be further classified as having either:
Preferential Registration or Reservation (PRR), which makes you eligible to register or reserve the shorter version of your domain name. This must be done within six months of the GoLive date. Reserving a domain name has no cost.
Conflicted status, which means your name has been registered in at least two second levels and so its registration at the second level needs to go through a conflict process. An example of this is one Registrant having example.org.nz and another, different Registrant having example.ac.nz.
For the moment, domains with such restrictions will appear as "not available" on our website, as we have not yet implemented the ability to register them. We're working on it and this option should be available soon (note, as mentioned above, that the domain will be reserved to you for six months).
You can check if priority restrictions exist on a given domain using the Registry's online tool at anyname.nz.
.nz domains will cost $24.00 for a one-year registration. For more information, see the Registry's FAQ.
The Gandi v5 platform has been deployed now for about 2 years. Many features have been added to it and we continue to update and improve it regularly.
We are planning to definitively close the v4 customer web interface. Please migrate your account by logging in to https://www.gandi.net/ to start the migration process.
