A new promotion from the Minds + Machines Registry means 50-75% off until 23:59 UTC on December 31, 2015 January 31, 2016 some TLDs that compliment each other well.

Minds + Machines has a whole suite of interrelated TLDs. You might call this kind of relationship synergy, which is a word the square community uses to mean "works well together." Not being squares ourselves, we prefer to think of these TLDs like fine wines. In that spirit, we created a pairing guide for this promotion.

Here's a sample:

.beer
Pairs well with:
- .cooking for beer-bread and beer-battered onion rings
- .garden for bench-seating and Oktoberfest
- .rodeo for American-flag t-shirts
- .surf for beach parties
Do not pair with:
- .vodka, no .beer before liquor …

.cooking
Pairs well with:
- .garden for vegetarians
- .vodka for pasta sauce
Do not pair with:
- .horse (unless you are French)

.fashion
Pairs well with:
- .fishing for rubber overalls
- .garden for breezy summer outfits and string-light illuminated cocktail parties
Do not pair with:
- .rodeo

But our favorite is .horse
Pairs well with:
- .rodeo for obvious reasons
- .fishing for horseback casting
- .surf for those who hang four (horse don't have toes)
- .vodka but only for Russian equestrians
and the recommendation of the house:
- .yoga for Horse Yoga

Here's the whole list of TLDs included in this promotion, in alphabetical order, of all the TLDs on sale with their promotional prices per year (each is normally available for $38.34) in A rates :

• .beer: $19.17
• .cooking: $14.00
• .fashion: $19.17
• .fishing: $14.00
• .fit: $19.17
• .garden: $10.00
• .horse: $14.00
• .rodeo: $10.00
• .surf: $19.17
• .vodka: $10.00
• .yoga: $19.17

What'll it be, partner?:

Protection and security are our wheelhouses. Whether it's the protection and security of your domain, of your personal information, of your data, or of access to your site through SSL, security and protection are our top concerns.

Which is why we're happy to see two new related gTLDs entering the Sunrise phase: .protection and .security.

During this phase, these domains will be available for $3294.19 per year.

When these extensions enter a 24 hour Landrush phase at 6:00 AM PST on January 26. 2016, they will be available for $3294.19 per year.

Then, when they enter the GoLive phase on January 27, 2016 at 6:00 AM PST, they will be available for $2214.19 per year.

But that's not all. Since these are TLDs specifically focused on security and protection, while being open to anyone (in Sunrise anyone with a TMCH claim), the site you put on a domain in one of these extensions will need to be https only, using a valid TLS protocol (including redirections).

Luckily, we can hook you up with an SSL certificate too. Remember: to be able to collect personal or financial information, you'll need a certificate at the EV extended validation level.

For all the usage rules, be sure to check out our rules for these TLDs and those available directly from the registry.

Protect yourself!

Register a domain under one of these TLDs?:

You can regulate from the outside or you can regulate from the inside. In the second case, it's feedback that makes the system work. And just look at the online world if you need an example: feedback loops abound in tech companies developing the next big thing. Web developers in developing new interfaces need feedback. And teams supporting just about any tech products rely on customer feedback.

That's why it's great that now feedback has it's own TLD: .feedback, which is now entering the Sunrise phase.

It actually entered the Sunrise phase October 20, so we're a little late in offering this domain, but Sunrise still extends until January 6, and until then, domains in this extension can be purchased with a TMCH claim for $2214.19 per year.

Since this extension is intended to bring together Internet feedback, all domains registered in .feedback are automatically redirected towards a dedicated platform provided by the registry.

For more information, see the domain info page.

Landrush on this extension will go from January 9 to January 18, 2016 (until 5:59 AM PST). During this period, you have a chance to register a .feedback domain for just $10.63 per year, provided you commit to stay with the registry's platform during the duration of your domain's registration.

Then, on January 18 at 6:00 AM PST sharp, domains will be available in this extension in the GoLive phase for $41.41 at A rates.

Register a .feedback?

The theater is where the masses go to see a picture. The .THEATRE, however, is a magical place where since the days of Shakespeare thespians have plied their craft humbly upon old oak boards.  

  
And now they can ply the bard's art online, finally, with a .THEATRE domain, now entering the Sunrise phase. Landrush, will be for just one day at Gandi from 26 to 27 of January, ending at 11:59pm PST, at a price of US$ 1,134.19.

During this phase, .THEATRE domains will be available for US$ 1674.19 per year for those possessing TMCH claims. General availability,will be on Wednesday January 27 at 8pm PST, at US$ 564.19, all at A rates.

*drum roll, please!!* :

There's now a dividing line slicing right through the heart of our existence. It's the line between here and there, public and private, anonymous and nonymous (we guess?) online and offline.

Dividing and slicing and cutting is all well and good but we like to bridge. So starting December 15, 2015 and lasting until 3:59 PM PST on January 14, 2016 (bridging the new year), .online, the ideal TLD for bridging that divide between offline and online, is on sale for 80%-off for first-year domain creations.

That means we put a line right through the normal price of $51.67 per year at A rates for .online domains: for the next month they'll be just $10.33 for first-year creations.

Register a .online?

.コム (.xn--tckwe) is the IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) for .COM in Japanese. Now, .コム is in Sunrise phase and could be registered for US$ 224.83 for the first year (at A rates). Starting February 1 to April 3, 2016, there's a "Godfathering" period when current owners of a .com second-level domain name will be able to register the perfect match of their domain name in .コム. For more information on this "Godfathering" period, check out the .コム info page.

Then, from April 4 to May 1, 2016, .コム will be in Landrush phase. Domains will be available for US$224.83 per year. Starting May 2, .コム will enter the GoLive phase and will be available for US$16.79 (general launch).

Remember, the Sunrise phase is for TMCH-registered trademark holders. Contact our Corporate support team if you have a TMCH-registered trademark and wish to register your brand name's domain in one of the new gTLDs during Sunrise.

Register a .コム?

The next installment of a certain epic space opera is due in a matter of mere days and while we'd like to be celebrating return of the scruffy-looking nerfherder himself to the franchise, the domains entering this Sunrise phase, though, have us thinking more of an earlier movie by the same filmmaker, with an actor in a not-so-different role.

Of course, we're talking about American Graffiti, the 1973 classic celebration of the cars, rock-and-roll and teenagers with disposible income culture in Southern California during the 50s, because this Wednesday December 9, 2015, .car .cars, and .auto are entering the Sunrise phase and have our motor started.

These days, of course, kids cruise in electric hybrids and self-driving cars, and American Graffiti stands as an eternal and perhaps puzzling document of their grandparents' decadence.

Remember, the Sunrise phase is for TMCH-registered trademark holders. Contact our corporate support team if you have a TMCH-registered trademark (or would like help registering your existing trademark at TMCH) in order to register one of these new gTLDs during Sunrise.

During this phase, domains in these extensions will be available for $3294.19 per year at A rates.

Start your engines?:

This year was a year of some once in a lifetime opportunities. Like the blood moon. There were way more of those this year than ever. Well, 2016 has at least one once in a lifetime opportunity in store: a golden opportunity to get discounted renewal rates on .website domains.

You may ask yourself: "How do I redeem this?"

Same as it ever was. Just renew the domain name selecting either one-year for the renewal period if you want 30%-off or anywhere between two-to-nine years (remember, a .website domain name cannot be registered for longer than 10 years) for 50%-off.

Update 01/14/16: This promotion lasts until March 31, 2016 at 23:59 UTC.

It's not secret the internet has become a desperate battle for clicks. It is survival of the clickiest and this unnatural selection has resulted in some pretty bizarre mutations: click-bait articles for one but also, of course, listicles (unfortunately not a frozen treat ... yet).

Honestly, we're not the listicle types, but in deference to its almighty power, we decided to compile a list of the Top Reasons to get a .top domain this December:

1. It's Chinese for breakthrough

So not only is it a strong, powerful TLD in English, but in Chinese as well.

Also, you know, globalization and stuff.

2. No better way to show your love for blouses and spinning things

The domain halter.top is already taken but the field is wide-open for other tops, and that's not to mention the little gyroscope thingies.

3. A .top top-level domain is, like, so meta

It's like the movie Inception in domain form.

4. .top just celebrated its one-year anniversary

On November 17, 2014, .top entered the GoLive phase, and so this past month it celebrated its one-year birthday.

5. It's on sale for just $1.29 until December 31, 2015 February 1, 2016 at 4:00 PM PST.

So you don't have to pay top dol--no, sorry, no we can't bring ourselves to make a pun that bad.

Register a .top?

A .club can be many things. It can be a way to organize your friends around a common interest, or if that common interest is you, it can be your own personal cult of personality, it can be a fun place to go to dance or a tool you use to bludgeon your enemies.

And from December 1 through December 31 at 4:00 PM PST, a .club can be yours for 50%-off the normal rate ($5.37 per year instead of the usual $10.74 per year at A rates).

Join the .club?