14 DAY TRIAL // The Eiffel Tower has moved to Paris on the Internet as well. The symbol of France has been online since 2007 under the domains Eiffel-Tower.com for English and Tour-Eiffel.fr for French.
However, for an undisclosed reason, the website has changed its domain to .Paris. So, now if you type in any of the addresses mentioned above, you will be redirected to the brand-new one, which is TourEiffel.Paris and you are given the option to choose the language from there.
According to The Domains, the registrant is the proud owner of eiffeltower.paris as well but this website is not resolving, at least not for now.
The site is probably just as popular as the iconic landmark. It allows enthusiasts to take a 360 degrees virtual tour so that they know what to expect if they ever plan on visiting it. It also offers a panorama of Paris as seen from the top of the tower, along with some additional information on each of the tourist attractions nearby.
The Eiffel Tour is one of the world’s most famous structures, and shortly after its construction, it became the symbol of the City of Light. The monument that took two years to build attracts around 7 million visitors each year.
The migration might have been made on marketing grounds
The TLDs, namely the top-level domains like .paris, became available after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is the organization responsible for allocating IP addresses and domain names for the internet, approved a change to the domain system by allowing more suffixes.
This led to what they call the "Not Com Revolution" as, with the wide variety of options now available, brands will not have to pay thousands of dollars for what was left of the .com domains. There are about 115 million of them already, which is about half of the total number of registered domains, meaning that businesses were left with very few options.
Besides the fact that TDLs domains are much cheaper, most businesses purchase them to promote "their brand, products, community or cause in new and innovative ways," as ICNN foretold when announcing the historical change and the end of the .com reign.