ShortDot drops premium fees on millions of domains
New gTLD registry ShortDot says it is making 2.4 million “premium” domains available at its standard registry fee.
From September 1, domains across .bond, .cfd, .icu, .cyou and .sbs will no longer have premium renewals.
The company said that “first and last names, city names, dictionary terms, and more” will return to standard prices, but it appears that it’s the mainly lower-tier inventory, where retail prices can be currently as low as $15 a year, being released.
Judging by the list, it appears that the vast majority of domains are four-character LLLL strings and three, four and five-digit numerics (including US zip codes).
Some geographic names representing low-population areas are on the list, while larger, more well-known cities do not appear to be.
A full spreadsheet of the names can be downloaded from Dropbox here.
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