Earlier today we wrote that Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names registered over 16,000 domain names yesterday under the new gTLD .Audio which is owned and operated by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry and talso registered 5,000 domain names in another Uniregistry new domain extension .HipHop.
North Sound Names also registered 10,000 domain names in a third Uniregistry string yesterday .Blackfriday, which launched in July of this year.
After the first day of general availability .Blackfriday had just 401 domain name registrations including those registered by trademark holders during the Sunrise period. .Blackfriday had around 850 registrations before yesterday registrations by North Sound Names.
.Blackfriday is now the 42th most registered new gTLD according to ntldstats,com with over 10,800 domain name registered.
It looks like North Sound Names registered mainly three and four letter domain names, and many geographic domains in Black Friday.
Its not clear if these domains were available to be registered or were on Uniregistry’s reserved list.
If you want to see all of the 10,000 .Blackfriday domain names registered by North Sound Names yesterday, you can go here today to view the list but by tomorrow morning the list will be gone.
North Sound Names now has registered close to 75,000 new gTLD domain names according to ntldstats.com, making it the largest registrant of new gTLD domain names, having registered over 3% of all new gTLD domains.
Also North Sound Names is the registrant of almost 75,000 of the 87,600 new gTLD registered at Uniregistry according to ntldstats.com or over 85% of all new gTLD’s registered at Uniregistry.
21,000 names in couple of days is quite impressive. Will be interesting to see how many they renew 🙂
pathetic..
This is wrong in so many ways.
how is it “wrong in so many ways” or “pathetic” ??
people that make comments like this must be bored.
someone should create a string where nothing at all is available. people will go mad and pay anything to get them! the law of na na you can’t have it.
It’s wrong because their intent is to hold domain names hostage until someone is willing to pay a ransom. It’s toxic to maintaining an open and accessible internet. They are aware that their tactics are borderline illegal which is why they run their company from the Grand Cayman.