The Sunrise Period of the .Inc domain starts on March 27th and ends on April 30th. Interested parties for the Sunrise Period must register their trademark at the Trademark Clearinghouse.
The Sunrise period of the Inc-Domains is followed by the Early Access Period period, which begins on April 30 and ends on May 7. The General availability of the Inc-Domains will start on May 7, 2019.
The relationship between a better ranking in search engines and new top-level domains has already been proven in a study of Searchmetrics for .berlin domains. Websites with .berlin domains often rank better with regional searches in Google than sites with .de domains and .com domains.
»In 42% of searches, .berlin domains rank better locally.«
Another study by Total Websites in Houston shows that the results of the Searchmetrics study are in principle applicable to all new TLDs, including e.g. new Inc-Domains. Total Websites notes that Google sees the domain extensions of new TLDs as an important criterion for the evaluation of a domain and, therefore, concludes that:
»It's clear that the new top-level domains improve the ranking in search engines.«
Hans-Peter Oswald
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