Hundreds of new domain name extensions or TLDs will be released in 2014. No longer you’re stuck to companyname.com or companyname.co.nz but how about auckland.plumbing or mountain.bike?
(updated 3 November 2014)
Around 200 new domains are already available and new ones being released almost every week.
General Available New TDLs
| .academy | .accountants | .actor | .agency |
| .archi | .associates | .audio | .bar |
| .bargains | .bayern | .beer | .berlin |
| .best | .bid | .bike | .bio |
| .black | .blackfriday | .blue | .boutique |
| .build | .builders | .buzz | .cab |
| .camera | .camp | .capital | .cards |
| .care | .career | .careers | .cash |
| .catering | .center | .cheap | .christmas |
| .church | .city | .claims | .cleaning |
| .clinic | .clothing | .club | .codes |
| .coffee | .cologne | .community | .company |
| .computer | .condos | .construction | .consulting |
| .contractors | .cooking | .cool | .country |
| .credit | .cruises | .dance | .dating |
| .deals | .democrat | .dental | .diamonds |
| .digital | .direct | .directory | .discount |
| .domains | .education | .engineering | |
| .enterprises | .equipment | .estate | .events |
| .exchange | .expert | .exposed | .fail |
| .farm | .finance | .financial | .fish |
| .fishing | .fitness | .flights | .florist |
| .foundation | .fund | .furniture | .futbol |
| .gallery | .gift | .glass | .global |
| .graphics | .gratis | .gripe | .guide |
| .guitars | .guru | .hamburg | .haus |
| .hiphop | .holdings | .holiday | .horse |
| .host | .house | .immobilien | .industries |
| .ink | .institute | .insure | .international |
| .investments | .jetzt | .juegos | .kaufen |
| .kim | .kitchen | .kiwi | .koeln |
| .land | .lease | .life | .lighting |
| .limited | .limo | .link | .loans |
| .london | .maison | .management | .marketing |
| .media | .menu | .moda | .moe |
| .nagoya | .ninja | .nyc | .nz |
| .okinawa | .partners | .parts | .photo |
| .photography | .photos | .pics | .pictures |
| .pink | .place | .plumbing | .press |
| .productions | .properties | .pub | .qpon |
| .recipes | .red | .reise | .reisen |
| .rentals | .repair | .report | .republican |
| .rest | .reviews | .rocks | .rodeo |
| .schule | .scot | .services | .sexy |
| .shiksha | .shoes | .singles | .social |
| .solar | .solutions | .soy | .supplies |
| .supply | .support | .surf | .surgery |
| .systems | .tattoo | .tax | .technology |
| .tienda | .tips | .today | .tokyo |
| .tools | .town | .toys | .trade |
| .training | .university | .uno | .vacations |
| .vegas | .ventures | .vet | .viajes |
| .villas | .vision | .vodka | .voting |
| .voyage | .wang | .watch | .webcam |
| .website | .wien | .wiki | .works |
| .wtf | .xyz | .yokohama | .zone |
Soon to be released
| .capetown | .durban | .joburg | .market |
| .mortgage |
Basically there are 3 ways to claim the new domain names. Check out our explanation on How to Claim the New TLD Names on our Tumblr blog.
Google treats new TLDs as gTLDs
How does Google treat all these new TLDs? Google’s John Mueller said that they are treated currently as gTLDs, Generic Top-Level Domains. So the same as they treat a .com, .net, .org and so on domain name. Even if the new TLD sound like they may be region-specific (eg .berlin).
If, over time, shows that these specific TLDs are clearly limited to only websites from those regions, Google might reconsider this. In the meantime, you should be able to set geo targeting manually for these TLDs.
Any questions?
As always feel free to drop any questions as a comment below and we’re happy to answer them.