NIC Mexico the company responsible of the administration of the .MX ccTLD, announced today that has reached 400,000 domain name registrations under .MX (including in this number all the current classifications .com.mx, .net.mx, .org.mx, .edu.mx, .gob.mx and .mx).
“Today, NIC Mexico has reached more than 400,000 domain names registrations” commented Oscar Robles, NIC Mexico ‘s CEO.
It is interesting to note that out of the 400K+ .Mx domains registered almost 75% of them are .com.mx which has 292K registrations while .mx only has 81K.
I think they would have more .mx regs if the reg fee was $8.99 instead of $49.99
I’d like to see the reg fee drop, .mx has good potential being a country beside the US, a popular tourist destination, and a large spanish speaking population with lots of room for internet growth.
Sure any extension would have more registrations if the price was 1/5 of the current price but then the registry would need 5x more registrations just to generate the same gross, but of course they would have more costs to support all the additional customers and registrations.
it seems only a poor way to have the (unavailable) freeware.com or business.com or office.com etc. adding an .mx at their ends
dismal results from recent Bido Auctions
(some less than the adquisition cost) :
Mes.mx 50 USD 12 Abr 2010
Prescriptions.com.mx 50 USD 7 Abr 2010
Balneario.mx 155 USD 31 Mar 2010
Gasoline.mx 65 USD 31 Mar 2010
Flats.mx 78 USD 31 Mar 2010
Ships.mx 65 USD 30 Mar 2010
Gambler.mx 212 USD 30 Mar 2010
Petrol.mx 72 USD 30 Mar 2010
Haciendas.mx 247 USD 29 Mar 2010
Bonds.mx 60 USD 24 Mar 2010
Own.mx 60 USD 24 Mar 2010
Fur.mx 60 USD 24 Mar 2010
Boo.mx 60 USD 23 Mar 2010
Veleros.mx 89 USD 18 Mar 2010
Population.mx 55 USD 18 Mar 2010
Mobiliario.mx 120 USD 17 Mar 2010
Pal.mx 28 USD 15 Mar 2010
Hip.mx 28 USD 15 Mar 2010
Bag.mx 28 USD 15 Mar 2010
Jam.mx 28 USD 15 Mar 2010
Cup.mx 28 USD 15 Mar 2010
Zip.mx 28 USD 15 Mar 2010
Tag.mx 28 USD 15 Mar 2010
Tub.mx 28 USD 15 Mar 2010
Practice.mx 28 USD 12 Mar 2010
Designs.mx 60 USD 12 Mar 2010
Mob.mx 60 USD 11 Mar 2010
Lengua.mx 135 USD 11 Mar 2010
Death.mx 28 USD 11 Mar 2010
Christ.com.mx 50 USD 10 Mar 2010
Now.mx 66 USD 10 Mar 2010
Why.mx 193 USD 10 Mar 2010
Gal.mx 60 USD 10 Mar 2010
Cut.mx 60 USD 10 Mar 2010
Two.mx 139 USD 10 Mar 2010
Six.mx 66 USD 10 Mar 2010
Ten.mx 66 USD 10 Mar 2010
Customs.mx 60 USD 10 Mar 2010
For.mx 60 USD 10 Mar 2010
Wed.mx 66 USD 10 Mar 2010
Our.mx 66 USD 10 Mar 2010
Transit.mx 66 USD 10 Mar 2010
Agents.mx 60 USD 10 Mar 2010
Sea.mx 102 USD 10 Mar 2010
Government.mx 60 USD 10 Mar 2010
Turkey.mx 70 USD 4 Mar 2010
Palabras.biz 28 USD 3 Mar 2010
Machine.mx 47 USD 2 Mar 2010
Some others that sold in recent Bido auctions:
2/1/2010 content.mx $752
2/1/2010 lose.mx $624
2/24/2010 oil.mx $540
1/5/2010 tax.mx $500
1/5/2010 reservas.mx $500
2/24/2010 apartment.mx $478
12/18/2009 invest.mx $450
2/26/2010 cruises.mx $442
2/9/2010 paint.mx $410
2/25/2010 great.mx $400
2/11/2010 physician.mx $400
2/2/2010 flying.mx $400
2/11/2010 equipment.mx $380
2/4/2010 pasajes.mx $370
2/8/2010 pain.mx $356
2/1/2010 your.mx $316
2/26/2010 rug.mx $300
2/16/2010 physicians.mx $300
1/25/2010 laws.mx $300
2/26/2010 stocks.mx $300
2/17/2010 monitors.mx $290
2/3/2010 domaining.mx $275
2/8/2010 winter.mx $254
3/29/2010 haciendas.mx $247
2/2/2010 contractor.mx $220
2/8/2010 engineer.mx $216
3/30/2010 gambler.mx $212
1/19/2010 hyip.mx $200
2/5/2010 ray.mx $200
3/10/2010 why.mx $193
2/16/2010 exercise.mx $189
2/9/2010 fares.mx $180
2/3/2010 loving.mx $178
2/11/2010 shops.mx $175
3/31/2010 balneario.mx $155
2/16/2010 debito.mx $155
2/8/2010 bankrupt.mx $153
2/12/2010 dining.mx $150
2/18/2010 her.mx $150
2/12/2010 semana.mx $150
2/5/2010 acid.mx $141
3/10/2010 two.mx $139
2/16/2010 transito.mx $135
3/11/2010 lengua.mx $135
2/5/2010 kitchens.mx $135
2/5/2010 father.mx $125
2/5/2010 rims.mx $125
3/17/2010 mobiliario.mx $120
2/24/2010 houses.mx $117
2/10/2010 first.mx $115
View the entire list here:
http://www.bido.com/SalesArchive?search=.mx&order=current_price+desc
Tracking the top .mx sales:
http://www.sales.mx/top-25-mx-sales-chart/
dismal results at BIDO for dismal domain names, logico.