Generic ".club" domains now open to all
Until then, it was difficult to register a good domain name ending in ".club". It required to go through a confusing
auction procedure and no matter what you think: a normal end-user doesn't do that. Try with
football.club: you understand what I am talking about.
Standard domain name end-users (Registrants) usually register their domain names
with their Accredited Registrar because the process is familiar to them and also...because they trust them.
There are other places to register Premium domain names but they are for professionals who know how to manipulate domains. Last week I attended the French
NDD.camp for Domainers and I learnt that one of them generates thousands of Euros with a short list of 120 domains
generic domains "only": the guy generates traffic and gets paid by...Google.
A Good news for non professionals
As soon as tomorrow, it becomes possible to register one of the 8,000 exceptional ".club" domain names directly at your accredited Registrar.
In simple words
This is what the Registrars wanted: to be able to present and sell .CLUB premium names directly, instead of having to explain their customers that they should go to another website.
What is important here
The most important thing is that the premium price is for the first year only. All renewals are always at regular General Availability prices (unless your Registrar invents something different).
An example
If you pay €100,00, €800,00 or more for your generic Premium ".club" domain name, the price you will pay each year could be as low as €12,00 !
I want one (the official list)
New gTLD Consultant based in Paris. "New gTLD" stands for "new generic Top-Level Domains" from the ICANN new gTLD program. They are new domain name extensions such as ".consulting" (instead of ".com").
