Most people don't have all the new extensions available for websites on their radar. However, as a Columbus Ohio web design and marketing firm, we thought it'd be interesting to share. There are now about 900 domain extensions, even though .com and .net still count for half of all the website extensions.
See the list of all the domain extentions here.
You might want to look into some of these domain extensions for your company, since they're becoming more and more popular. (We have www.sevell.com, we have also reserved sevell.nyc.)
If you're a realtor, you can get your name with .realtor. For builders, .builder, and for surgeons, .surgery.
There's more extensions that you can imagine, including Lady Gaga's foundation's website at www.BornThisWay.foundation.
We've listed the main groups that extensions fall into (below), and we suspect there's one or two that might be good for your company, if for no other reason than to make your domain name stand out.
The extensions fall into these six basic groups:
Country codes from Andorra (.ad) to Zimbabwe (.zw) of which there are about 200.
It sure seems like every country in the world has its own extension. Even Antarctica has it's own (.aq), as does North Korea (.kp) and South Korea (.kr). We've read that North Korea only has about 10 websites judging from this not-so-recently updated website.
Continent Codes including one for the European Union
Only businesses in the United States can use .us as their extension, while companies and individuals in the European Union members are the only ones who can use .eu. And Africa has it's own extension (.africa) as does the United Kingdom (.uk). You can see all the countries' codes here.
Business codes of which there are about 280, including .realtor, .builder, .surgery, and .doc
Art galleries can use .gallery, while movies are using .movie (like www.TheHungerGames.movie). And we do believe almost anyone can use the .beer or .life extension, just as haunted houses can use the .boo extension. You can see all the extensions that are available here. (Just scroll down to the English subsection to see the ones available to the general public.)
City codes like .nyc, .boston and .paris
For companies who have offices within those city limits.
Sponsored domain names like .aero, .museum, and .travel
Sponsored domain names are specialized "top-level" domain that have a sponsor, or sponsors which represent a specific community served by that domain. So members of the air transportation industry sponsored .aero. And you can figure out which industries sponsored the domain extensions above. Guess there's no doubt about what industry sponsored the .xxx extension.
Some that only governments can use
The U.S is the only country that can use .gov. .edu and .mil for the military.
While we try to keep up on this stuff, it's a moving target so it's tough to always be 100% accurate, but by 2018 the number of extensions are expected to double.