Five new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA) on Wednesday.
Including domains registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and by those willing to pay an extra charge to register domain name in the Early Access Program (EAP) prior to GA here are the number of domain name registrations after the first day of GA:
.Church 4,044
.Guide 3,387
.Life 2,106
.Loans 632
.Republican 385
So we have further indication that religion beats politics.
In general the political domains have been a disaster.
Between Republican, .GOP and .Democrat new gTLD’s the total number of domain registrations are under 3,500 combined more than less than .Church domain registrations.
Radix which was suppose to go into GA on Wednesday for .Host, .Press and .Website, announced that the launch would be delayed to today.
So glad to see .life up there. I think that’s a super nice extension to get into, since it relates to the public interests. Almost all the larges companies try to invoke the personal connection with people and if you can secure a brand name or product reference …. .life… you’ll be in a world of potential I think.
I think .life is great for financial, insurance, food, layer, politics, blog, fitness, health and perhaps even other markets product related. It’s really broad and with a reference to life. I also like .guide and the .tips one still stands out. I am sure there are more, but there will certainly also be very specific domain extensions that will be importan to a few groups of people but perhaps not very popular such as the .life and so on.