Any way to check whois?
You can buy one at epik or porkbun and check at the other registrar. Yes, they are doing it in coordination..
Looks like hot keywords taken or reserved, but crap ones are listed. Also can we know Icann won't introduce its own version of .c (or will Icann become obsolote?) ? new.net sold ".shop domains", but it has nothing to do with current .shop.
I like .c because it is short for .com (and also sounds like .see), but it needs to be real enough (even if don't resolve (yet)). (much better than .oin)
And why do they even need to resolve, as long as they are widely accepted, just like bitcoin. Maybe this was the plan, introduce new "domains" as speculative currency (but needs renewal).
Btw, they are working hard to sound like sc@mmers, crap domain for their web site, crap extensions, crap keywords, ridiculous prices. park.io, new.net, .. sound much better in every sense. if they want something to be accepted, then there must be some logic, aesthetics, credibility , (premiumness) etc. Just because there is a blockchain somewhere doesn't mean it is p2p, decentralized, democratic etc. Whoever controls more than half of a blockchain, controls all. ..And I heard half of bitcoins are somewhere in China, so that group can theoretically manipulate btc price , if true.