.ART domains are now open for public registration
Sensual Art
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As of 9th May 1400 UTC (10th May 1400 UTC as per some sources) .ART domains - the fourth most contested gTLD are now available for public registration after a long landrush period which started on 8th Feb. Kickstarter has been one of the early adopters of the gTLD as are several, museums, art galleries, artists and organizations. So grab yourself an identity in the art community whether its for your next project or to showcase your portfolio. I already bought couple of premium ones while they were in landrush (and yet affordable).
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Maybe I'm missing something, but I go to godaddy.com and look at available domain extensions and I don't see .art. When I search for a domain name that I make up with random characters and add .art extions I get a message that it is already taken?
GoDaddy hasn't started selling .art atleast not yet during the preferred access period. But they are one of the official registrars. Store.art seems to be the "preferred" seller. Here's their official list of registrars https://art.art/registrars/.
The "resellers" ("this domain is for sale for $10.000") are probably busy stocking up...
You mean domaineers? If sources from nTLDStats can be trusted, .ART has already seen more than 2500 registrations even before its open to the public. In my opinion, that's an enviable number of registrations for any gTLD's landrush period especially when the non-premium ones rolled out with a $200 price tag each. Out of that only 44% are showing blank/parked pages.
The .ART registry had an elaborate token system (like .xxx domains) during the preferred access period to cater to "prominent" entities in the field of art. Probably due to this technical complexity many registrars did not participate during this phase.
As far as premium pricing goes, the registry itself has started charging special premium prices for popular words which can either serve vanity or profit (should one decide to trade). Either way, the buyer pays the premium price either to the registry (via their registrar) or to a domaineer.
Also, I checked with .ART support that the price for premium domains is a one time payment and and not recurring. Premium domains renew at normal rates $49.99 irrespective of initial cost whereas non-premium ones should be around $10-20 per year depending upon the registrar. (Note that for some new gTLDs premium price is recurring). The registration and renewal pricing and rules are at par with .com, .net and other popular gTLDs. DNSSEC is supported.
https://www.godaddy.com/tlds/art-domain?countryview=1
€11.91/1st yr
GoDaddy charges around 18 16.5 EUR for subsequent years plus extra for anonymity and DNSSEC. And probably extra for mail redirection and mailbox (though some of my old domains have free mailbox).
https://OVH.ie/domains offers a flat rate of 10.99 EUR including anonymity (everything but your name), DNSSEC, 10 MB starter hosting, 2000 mail redirection strings, one 5 GB mailbox all within 10.99 EUR. Recently they gave away .com for 0.99 EUR first year with all those benefits.
Disclaimer: I am customer of both OVH and GoDaddy.
Greetings,
Thanks for the info!
For the heck of it, I picked up a .art domain for $10.99 from GoDaddy, but I have a domain discount club thing with them, that lets me renew and buy new at discounted rates.
One problem: deviantArt doesn't yet support the .art domain for their Premium Portfolios service (which comes with the dA core membership). I set it up and tried, and *.art doesn't work yet. So for now, I've pointed http://art.cypherfox.com to my dA:PP account. Eventually I'll hook http://www.cypherfox.art to it, once they fix that bug.
-- Morgan
Congrats Morgan! Unfortunately, I am not a premium member at dA, Since the CNAME points to a generic "hosted.daportfolio.com" instead of some username.daportfolio.com or username.deviantart.com, there must be a way for dA to recognize and map incoming requests from your host url/domain to your portfolio page. Being a non-core member, I did not find that association in my user settings. May be your dA user settings area has a provision to configure your host url/domain.
Having said that, if you intend to use the .art domain for your portfolio then there are several alternatives like Adobe Portfolio (part of the photography cc subscription) or ArtStation (requires Pro plan). Since I am already subscribed to adobe cc, I am currently using Adobe Portfolio for my domain http://www.sensual.art.
Got mine yesterday! Thanks for the heads-up!
Thanks for this! Domaineers have been holding my .com hostage for years. I had to settle for a .net, but I managed to snag my .art thanks to your heads up.
Greetings,
Check out http://portfolio.deviantart.com/ ; the CNAME-addressable part isn't available for free, but the portfolio service otherwise appears to be.
That said, nice job getting sensual.art! I didn't want to go for any of the normal-word-names, as I've never been a fan of domaineering, but if you're going to use it, more power to you! I have a few (very few) dozen domain names, but they're all for things I do or want to do...and I've only had to sell off one, when I was really broke and out of work.
Nice to see that Adobe already allows the domain to point at their stuff... For what it's worth, you COULD do a 302 redirect off something like 'da.sensual.art' to your actual deviantArt page, it's not too hard to set up, using (at GoDaddy at least) 'Forward a domain'.
-- Morgan
Glad I could help. Best of luck with your domains.
sigh, cant change my mail adress here
"Email" is not a valid hostname.,'xxxxx.art' appears to be a DNS hostname but cannot match TLD against known list,'xxxxx.art' appears to be a local network name but local network names are not allowed
Other Sites has no problems with the adress.
I think Magento needs a update for this...
Please open a support ticket.
have a ticket open :)
Note that inline with what CypherFOX mentioned above, dA team has acknowledged the isssue with associating .art TLD with the user portfolio. Pretty ironical considering that dA (DaDotArt) was one of the main contenders for the rights to the TLD. Here's the actual response from Chris:
Hi There,
Thanks for your inquiry. Yes, when creating a portfolio you will be asked for the URL including the CNAME you wish to display that particular portfolio on. Please note however that at the moment .art TLD's do not currently function with our system but our developers are hard at work on a solution and will hopefully have that up and running shortly. We greatly appreciate your patience during this time.
Chris Carey
Customer Service Representative
Community Operations
ikue.deviantart.com
Hm got an answer from daz support:
"Unfortunately, .art is not supported on our web interface. However, this has been submitted as a feature request and may be an option in the future. I can not make any guarantees. "