Land grab kicks off as new .game domain is introduced

By Darren Allan

Fancy bagging your own .game domain? Well, now you can, as the new Top-Level Domain (TLD) is available for usage for those involved in the gaming community in one way or another.

Domain name peddler Uniregistry is holding court over .game domains and the firm noted that on the first day of launch, most major game industry players had already grabbed their big-name titles.

Blizzard, for example, nabbed the Warcraft, Starcraft, Hearthstone, Diablo and Heroes of the Storm domain names in the early trademark registration period, subsequently grabbing Overwatch.game on the team-based shooter’s launch day.

Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto were reserved by Activision and Take-Two Interactive respectively, and naturally Microsoft grabbed Minecraft, with Square Enix having no hesitation in snagging Final Fantasy.

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Apple also bought up iPad.game, and Microsoft and Sony registered the Xbox and PlayStation domain names respectively. Other launch day registrations included chess.game and mmorpg.game.

Amanda Fessenden, Director of Registry Business Operations for Uniregistry, commented: “While we are excited to see existing gaming companies acquire their .game domain names, we are even more excited by what will come next – the creation of websites, marketing campaigns, and games themselves built on these great domains.”

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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming