There was no luck for the Irish for the launch of the new gTLD .Irish
Including those domain names registered in the Sunrise period for trademark holders, the landrush period for those who were willing to pay an extra fee for early access to domains and the first day of general availability which was the 24th, the current zone files reflect less than 500 domain registrations
The official count stands at just 478 registered domain names with almost 50% of those being registered at Canadian registrar Tucows, the Ireland based registrar Blacknight had the second most registrations but only 79 of them.
There were less than 100 registrations through Sunrise and Landrush (although those domain name applied by two or more people in landrush are headed off to auction and not included in the totals) so the brand-holders hardly paid attention to the extension.
Brand protection company Mark Monitor had only has 27 registrations and CSC had 10 as did COM LAUDE.
All stats are from ntldstats.com
A .Irish domain name registration is priced at $30 at Enom
Hahaha
Is anyone surprised to hear this? Gtlds were DOA. What surprises me is that gtld registries continue to proceed with their plans rather than cutting losses and terminate early.