Dot-world domains available, Zeta.world first to grab one

Running your own virtual world? Considering registering a dot-world domain name for it.

For example, Sunshine.world is available for $28 from GoDaddy and $25 from NameCheap.

The first grid to take advantage of this — ZetaWorlds — has already grabbed the domain Zeta.world, grid owner Timothy Rogers announced today.

ICANN approved this new top-level domain last fall — along with a bunch of other ones, such as .beer and .guru.

Dot-world hasn’t been particularly popular so far — according to nTLDStats, it has fewer than 9,000 domains registered — compared to 781,943 for another new-comer, dot-xyz.

Most popular new top-level domains. (Image courtesy nTLDStats.)

That’s not a particularly good sign. Top-level domains cost a lot of money to set up and maintain. And dot-world, in particular, doesn’t offer any compelling advantages over dot-com for most companies.

On the other hand, it does mean that there are plenty of domains available.

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Hypergrid Business editor and publisher Maria Korolov is a science fiction novelist. During the day, Maria Korolov is an award-winning freelance technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise virtual reality. See her Amazon author page here and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel. Email her at maria@hypergridbusiness.com. Her first virtual world novella, Krim Times, made the Amazon best-seller list in its category. Her second novella, The Lost King of Krim, is out now. She is also the publisher of MetaStellar, a new online magazine of speculative fiction.