Generic Top Level Domains: are they catching on yet at all?

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Is anyone buying ".club", ".today", ".cool" etc? Is there any way of finding out statistics to watch when one of these begins to approach mainstream use rather than just being a novelty as they most likely are for now?

One other related question: are companies having to buy all these up to keep others from snagging them? For example, does Microsoft own Microsoft.zone and Microsoft.cash and on and on?

Brimby

Posted 2014-10-08T20:56:10.317

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@Jan helped me identify what I was talking about. Originally I called it a "Domain Name Suffix" in the question title because I didn't know what they were called. – Brimby – 2014-10-08T21:10:13.150

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They are called TLDs (Top Level Domains) and the new ones are called "Generic TLDs". I believe that lots of companies are buying domains from these gTLDs - but I have yet to come across someone actually using them in real life.

Jan

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