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OVH to give away 50,000 new gTLD names for free
Kevin Murphy,
October 1, 2014, 20:53:44 (UTC),
Domain Registries
France-based registrar OVH is to make up to 50,000 domain names in its new gTLD .ovh available for free.
According to its web site and a bulletin send to customers today, the regular price of £2.69 ($4.35) will be waived for the first year and renewal pricing will be discounted.
The first 20,000 names registered will renew at £1.01 ($1.63), the remaining 30,000 names will renew at £2.03 ($3.29). There will be a limit of five domains per customer.
While “free” is not an unusual business model in the new gTLD round, .ovh is noteworthy for several other reasons.
It’s the first “dot-brand” new gTLD to accept registrations from third parties, for starters.
It’s also the only live dot-brand belonging to an accredited domain name registrar.
The restrictions on the gTLD also raise eyebrows — in order to register a name in .ovh, you need an OVH customer number.
So while the .ovh names should in theory be available via third-party registrars, such registrars would have to capture the OVH customer number of their own customers — or encourage their own customers to become OVH customers — in order to process the registration.
Unsurprisingly, there’s no mention of any approved third-party registrars on the official .ovh web site.
General availability begins at 1000 UTC Wednesday October 2.
Thanks to Andrew Bennett for the tip.
ICANN doesn’t list .ovh as a brand-TLD or having requested brand-TLD categorization still being evaluated, so it seems OVH itself is considering .ovh as generic.
It’s an interesting move.
I’d heard rumours that this was what they’d been planning to do – or a variant of this, so it doesn’t surprise me.
To be honest I only see a sponsorship use and low cost short domain name. In the former, there is a cause, for example, Vegetarian, and this cause wants some actual or conceptual or perceived or self-confidence support from giant techie internet site hosting business.
typo (extra): This is a first time a .companyname suffix is giving away their company name to anyone without qualification. Google if you remember had a website service: https://googlepages.com/yourcompanyname – smoothie url and they changed it to http://sites.google.com/site/yourcompanyname – slashings url. Just suppose Google-like marketing modification happens at .ovh, so what happens then?
should it beneficial for website owner to use .ovh domain which is not listed in ICANN
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