Dot-Poker Domain

New Dot-Poker Web Domain Launching

What do you think?

haven't heard much but am excited to hear how it goes. Never know with startups...

Like it, but would only get one or two at most. Learned some lessons last year about speculating on worthless DN's (irrational exuberance), but also got lucky on one.

I am pleased at the new .insertnamehere domains. .poker makes sense. Hopefully it will not be filled with malicous buyers right from the begining

Don't think something changes. Big rooms will stay at old domains. To chase and restrict "*.poker" sites in some countries will be very easily now.

army-ninja said:

I am pleased at the new .insertnamehere domains. .poker makes sense. Hopefully it will not be filled with malicous buyers right from the begining

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The 2+2 vs Dutch Boyd case ought to deter squatters (assuming they know about it, and the general risk of buying trademarked domain names).

Just another form of internet censorship. Well correct me if im wrong i dont really know but seems that way to me. I wonder what the up side is? And of course i wonder about the down side?

arizoney said:

Just another form of internet censorship. Well correct me if im wrong i dont really know but seems that way to me. I wonder what the up side is? And of course i wonder about the down side?

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What do you mean by censorship?

One upside to owning a .poker name I suppose is brand protection. A couple of downsides are the cost to re-register a .poker name each year will probably be at least twice that of a .com, and the .com variant of the name is more valuable because the com suffix is shorter and universal.

It might have been a big thing if it'd happened 4-5 years ago, now, not so much.

Didn't they launch .xxx domains a few years ago for porn sites

Look how well that turned out? I don't know of any that uses it