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[mAd MaX]

Hi,

Which Domain isn't available for any extension?

Thanks
MaX

 

[lock]

Used to be few eg the f word.

 

[HotKey]

www (dot) extension

you will likely not find avail.

What made you ask?

 

[mAd MaX]

www (dot) extension

you will likely not find avail.

What made you ask?

Right.

Just asked.

 

[HotKey]

There's also lists of reserved names you can find for various tlds on icann.org, for example the .pro extension:

https://www.icann.org/resources/unthemed-pages/pro-appendix-6-2010-04-22-en

Common strings not allowed for registration on many TLDs including ccTLDs:

www
nic
whois
example

They are rare if you can find them. There was an NP member selling example(dot)cc a while back, I hummed and hawed on purchasing it, but by the time made up my mind, he took it off the market.

 

[mAd MaX]

There's also lists of reserved names you can find for various tlds on icann.org, for example the .pro extension:

https://www.icann.org/resources/unthemed-pages/pro-appendix-6-2010-04-22-en

Common strings not allowed for registration on many TLDs including ccTLDs:

www
nic
whois
example

They are rare if you can find them. There was an NP member selling example(dot)cc a while back, I hummed and hawed on purchasing it, but by the time made up my mind, he took it off the market.

Apart from WWW, all other keywords are available with the some users though very few.

But not a single WWW

 

[Bob Hawkes]

www (dot) extension

you will likely not find avail.

What made you ask?

Turns out that www is available for registration in some extensions (not necessarily cheap ).
You can use DOFO to easily see for any possible name how many are registered, for sale and available. Here it is for www, for example.
https://dofo.com/search/?contains=www

 

[mAd MaX]

Turns out that www is available for registration in some extensions (not necessarily cheap ).
You can use DOFO to easily see for any possible name how many are registered, for sale and available. Here it is for www, for example.
https://dofo.com/search/?contains=www

Try it, won't find available to register.

But WWW.com is on sale at sedo I found out from your dofo link, is that true or is it an idn?

 

[Bob Hawkes]

But WWW.com is on sale at sedo I found out from your dofo link, is that true or is it an idn?

It looks not IDN to me. If I enter the url www.com I am taken to a for sale page at Uniregistry, I presume the same seller has it on multiple marketplaces. Seems surprising that Verisign do not have it as a reserved domain. According to Domain Tools the domain was created in 1998 and is registered until 2024.

I am not sure why DOFO list a bunch as available but not when try to register. I suspect it is that they are in some sense available but are the super premium registry ones that are only handled as individual direct purchases through registry, and not through standard registrar channels. I checked a couple on DomainTools and they were not listed as reserved, nor with records of registration, so I am guessing that is what that means (could well be wrong).

Bob