.Church Domain Names – A Big Hit

The new top level domain name .Church was made available gor general registrations last week. Since its launch, more and more congregations acquired a .Church domain name.

The new .Church domain name is incresing in popularity with many congregations registering their .Church domain name every day.One of the congregations that has chosen to register a new .Church domain name is Brookhaven United Methodist Church o Brookhaven,Georgia.

“I saw this as an opportunity to take advantage of important geographic branding opportunities domains that immediately and easily identify my church with the Brookhaven and greater Atlanta area have long been taken,”  said Wesley Sanders ,pastor at Brookhaven United Methodist.

“I had been planning on doing a redesign of our church’s website for a while, and the release of the new dot church domain names gave me a good opportunity to implement a new online presence,” he added.

“Churches need to constantly keep up with design trends so that visitors will not get the idea that the church is five or 10 years behind in their embrace of technology. This includes making sure the web page is easily navigable from mobile devices as well,” Sanders continued.

.Church ranks as the 84th new gTLD , with 5,677 registrations, according to ntldstats.com.