TLDs are no longer limited to .com, .net or .org.
The .sky is not the .limit. TLDs now go from A to Z with hundreds of stops along the way and more added all the time.
To get an idea of some TLDs and who controls them this wikipedia page lists several hundred. Most professions & sports are covered, here is a small sample:
actor
agency
band
beer
bingo
cafe
camera
cards
cash
cheap
dance
dating
dog
football
fyi
gallery
gripe
house
kitchen
love
money
ninja
rocks
tires
town
website
wtf
xyz
Another thing you will see is that corporations have locked in their names as TLDs. I don’t know if there are any checks & balances to this or not, but .camera is available as a TLD, but .Canon & .Nikon are not. Potentially I could get a domain “canon.camera”, but not “camera.canon”
One thing to note, not all registrars can register all domains, some domains are limited to specific registrars. That is not a big deal.
First I registered my .space domain through namecheap.com. Then, after creating an account with cloudflare.com I used the the DNS records provided by Cloudflare back on namecheap so my domain would use the Cloudflare DNS servers.
Another inexpensive registrar I seen mentioned to get your domain is Porkbun.com
When a domain name is registered a valid name, address and contact information has to be provided for the responsible party. Namecheap and porkbun hide this from inquires by default for free; GoDaddy and others charge for this service. You will want to hide this from prying eyes, but why pay extra.
Over the past 10 years there’s been a continual growth in the number of domain names issued, although it has slowed. In the US, there are 133 domain names almost 100 million more than the next closest country at 35 million. The new TLDs might cause an influx of new domains and websites, and there is not a 1:1 connection between the two, subdomains count as one domain and one domain can host multiple websites.
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