Social media portals apply for ‘.ooo’ domain

The newly launched generic ‘.ooo’ (dot-triple-o) domain, introduced by e-commerce firm, Infibeam.com has caught the fancy of netizens. Going by the claims of the company, it has received registrations for the domains of almost all the prominent social media portals.

“We have received applications for the domain registrations for all social media portals. We are in the process to approve their applications and allot a .ooo domain for the respective portals,” said Vishal Mehta, founder and CEO, Infibeam.com at the announcement of the launch of the new generic top level domain (GTLD). Mehta, however declined to name any of the portals that have applied citing legal restrictions.

He mentioned that since the launch in September last week so far about 34,000 brands have shown interest in the .ooo domain registration.

According to Mehta, the domain, seen as a mobile-friendly domain for reduced usage of multiple keys to type, will see about 1-2 million global registration over the next 18 months.

“From India alone we expect about 100,000 to 200,000 domain registrations taking place under .ooo domain,” he told media persons here.

Infibeam will associate with registrar partners and power their customers with more value added services through their technology platform. Bigrock (India), Superregistry (Canada), IP Mirror (Singapore), Goodluck Domains (USA) Comlaude (London are some of the leading registrar partners the company has associated with.

The domain will be made available for generic use ranging from corporation to general public worldwide.

(This article was published on October 31, 2014)