{"id":1496,"date":"2016-05-03T20:05:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T18:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tld.sc\/en\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2020-01-13T11:02:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T09:02:27","slug":"lots-of-domain-names-to-go-off-line-as-centralnic-terminates-8-of-their-slds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/2016\/05\/lots-of-domain-names-to-go-off-line-as-centralnic-terminates-8-of-their-slds\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots of domain names to go off-line as CentralNic terminates 8 of their SLD&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tld.sc\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Centralnic-e1462298654691.png\" alt=\"Centralnic\" width=\"120\" height=\"100\" \/>For about two decades CentralNic has been known as the registry operator of alternative extensions like .eu.com, .gb.net or uk.net. Since the launch of the new gTLD&#8217;s, CentralNic jumped also on that bandwagon and now is one of the larger back-end providers for such new gTLD&#8217;s. Apparently they have decided to focus only on the more lucrative extensions and they will be sunsetting 8 of their less popular SLD&#8217;s: .AR.COM, .GB.COM, .HU.COM, .KR.COM, .QC.COM, .NO.COM, .SE.COM, and .UY.COM.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In practice, all websites or e-mail addresses ending in these extensions will stop working from April 30&#8217;th 2017 onwards. Owners of such a domain name are advised to move their website and e-mail as soon as possible. CentralNic is offering free registrations under some of their remaining extensions as compensation, but question is how much people will still trust the &#8220;alternative&#8221; domain names, seeing that a commercial company like CentralNic can simply decide to no longer facilitate them at any time. People who now are forced to move their website and e-mail to an other address, will very likely not be trusting alternative extensions in the future.<\/p>\n<p>CentralNic however will probably make a nice one-time profit from being able to sell those two-letter .com-names once all subdomains have been removed. Even in the current day and age of lots of new gTLD&#8217;s, a short .com domain name is still extremely valuable. Not too long ago, <em>37.com<\/em> has been sold for 2,1 million USD and <em>533.com<\/em> for over 400.000 USD. An auction for 27.com is ongoing with expected closing price to also be a 7-figure number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For about two decades CentralNic has been known as the registry operator of alternative extensions like .eu.com, .gb.net or uk.net. Since the launch of the new gTLD&#8217;s, CentralNic jumped also on that bandwagon and now is one of the larger back-end providers for such new gTLD&#8217;s. Apparently they have decided to focus only on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}