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With the release of the .TECH extension today, will you be investing?
Besides which many of the supposed sites will remain undeveloped which will lead to further frustration within the public towards the extension.
As far as I am aware the number of developed .ht domains is very low, but what that has to do with .tech is a puzzle to me.
R-V.tech
Aliens.tech
Adopting.tech
and a couple of LLL...(blk friday sale)
Would be nice to see these start moving in China...
For the time being I am definitely in the 'No' camp.
Why would I invest in a suffix that has all the following negatives:
- The public do not know of it.
- The selection of 'premium domains' is somewhat arbitrary to say the least
- The initial registration fees are quite high
- The continual high price on renewals is high
- No guarantee that when a supposed non-premium domain is registered that it will not then after attract the dubious distinction of being classed as a 'premium domain' by the registry and the cost of renewal be increased to what they think they can get away with charging.
Finally, the .tech registry apparent business model gives me no confidence that the registry will thrive or even exist in 5 years time, besides which as most new technological developments have nuanced names they can usually be found available to register in the .com and other major gTLD suffixes.