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Updated: Christmas In July? Not So Much; 1st Day Totals .Christmas 422; BlackFriday 401

July 9, 2014 by Michael Berkens

Two of Uniregistry new gTLD strings had their first day of general availability yesterday and put up pretty horrible numbers according to ntldstats.com.

Including Sunrise registrations .Christmas ended its first day with just 422 registrations, 18 of them were registered by Uniregistry itself.

Here are some of the domain name Uniregistry registered:

Always.christmas

behomefor.christmas

Boycott.christmas

Camera.christmas

Cameras.christmas

Cayman.christmas

egift.christmas

Flyaway.christmas

Gift4.christmas

Girls.christmas

Grandcayman.christmas

Offers.christmas

Santaclaus.christmas

Secretsanta.christmas

Skivacations.christmas

Stockingstuffers.christmas

Many of the domain names that were just a day earlier as being shown as available for registration wound up being reserved by the registry.

We are not sure if it domain names were moved to the reserved list at the last moment or if the information registrars were getting was incorrect.

.Blackfriday including Sunrise wound up with 401 new gTLD (Now Updated due to lag in reporting by ntldstats.com) registrations after the first day of general availability.

Filed Under: New gTLD's, Uniregistry

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. George Kirikos says

    July 9, 2014 at 11:05 am

    I guess Mike’s prediction yesterday, namely “…..I’m going to go on record saying that .Christmas is going to be Uniregisty most registered new gTLD extension (not counting domains registered by North Sound) which I hope doesn’t occur until at least tomorrow so customers can have the first shot.” was a bit optimistic.

    I don’t think most registrants are looking to trade *down* to 9-letter TLDs, from their superior dot-com domains — most folks want to trade “up”. The added expense for 1 day of the year might only be worth it for the largest of companies, and perhaps then only justifiable as a redirect to their dot-com page..

  2. Michael Berkens says

    July 9, 2014 at 11:09 am

    Well George as I mentioned in the post a lot of the domains I had placed orders on the day before which were showing as available wound up on the reserved list.

    Things like toys.christmas I ordered at 5 different registrars the night before it showed as available, not reserved while other domains like santaclaus.christmas wound up being registered by Uniregistry.

    I still think the .Christmas will get over the 5K mark by the end of the year

  3. nTLDStats says

    July 9, 2014 at 11:42 am

    @Michael Berkens: I am sorry – we had some trouble with CZDS last night and did not update .blackfriday stats until now.

  4. Michael Berkens says

    July 9, 2014 at 11:46 am

    SO what is the total you have for .blackfriday now?

    • nTLDStats says

      July 9, 2014 at 11:47 am

      401 domains ( http://ntldstats.com/tld/blackfriday )

      • George Kirikos says

        July 9, 2014 at 12:02 pm

        So, I suppose one might say it was a “Black Tuesday” for dot-blackfriday? 🙂 (crash.blackfriday seems to be unregistered, i.e. the stock market crash)

        How many more days until North Sound Names steps in, to inflate the registration numbers and lift the TLDs from the lower depths of the new gTLDs charts?

        Perhaps for ease of tracking, North Sound Names might place their names on a group of dedicated vanity nameservers, such as ns1.fake-it-til-you-make-it.blackfriday and ns2.fake-it-til-you-make-it.blackfriday — this way, tracking services that adjusted for the NSI .xyz inflated registrations can do the same for Uniregistry extensions.

        • Domenclature.com says

          July 9, 2014 at 1:38 pm

          “What if Christmas, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!”
          ― How the George Stole dotChristmas! – Dr. Seuss,

          • George Kirikos says

            July 9, 2014 at 1:47 pm

            lol Very creative. 🙂

  5. chrishughesuk says

    July 9, 2014 at 12:52 pm

    Uniregistry doing this isn’t news, it’s business as usual.

  6. JBLions says

    July 9, 2014 at 2:56 pm

    One of the problems with extensions like this one (.christmas), that was gone over before any of these came out, was these are usually in the wrong order.

    With Christmas, the best phrases have Christmas coming first, not second.

    One of the ones mentioned above, toys.christmas, if somebody posted about toyschristmas.com on a forum, they would get clowned on because it’s in the wrong order, nobody says that. While toys is a great keyword all by itself, with these new extensions, it needs to be in a place where it makes sense, in the right order. Making sense are where a lot of these regs just fail.

    • Ramahn says

      July 10, 2014 at 8:42 am

      @JBLions, .bingo!


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