Several new gTLD’s went into its first day of general availability GA) yesterday and according to ntldstats.com,here are the number of registrations after the first day of GA which include all Sunrise applications and those domains registered in the Early Access Program (EAP)
Once again the total for this weeks new gTLD are less than impressive:
.Reisen 2,262;
.University 1,340
.Toys 1,320
.Town 590
Reisen is the German word for Travel.
There are now over 1.75 million new gTLD’s registered with .XYZ representing 24% of all new gTD registrations now topping 425,000 registrations.
Since last we recapped .Club passed 90,000 registrations.
.Wang passed .photography to become the 5 more registered new gTLD with over 42,000 registrations.
People’s (even domainers’) interest in new GTLDs will be rapidly decreasing. The early new GTLDs should think they were lucky.
.XYZ – who would have thought it would have been one of the rare winners
You may want to rethink your idea of winner then what with the greater majority of registrations being freebies given to people on an opt-out basis rather than an opt-in. Wait till renewal time for the numbers before declaring them a winner,
The interest is there. But the availability is not.
Have try to reg these: camden.town, kentish.town, london.university, lviv.university…
Donuts has returned this:
Meaning,
While berlin.university was snatched by .BERLIN. But who said life should be fair.
You cannot have all good names to yourself, right Mike?
Actually, most of them will probably be on the name collision list and the registry would be happy to sell them. It really is ICANN that is putting up a stopsign for many good domain names that would have found a buyer, just to protect against some nebulous, potential harm.