AdAge.com just published a post covering today’s .NYC launch into general availability. Its just one of many publications that have covered New York City big day but a quote from the story caught my eye.
AdAge updated their story for a correction: CORRECTION: A previous version of this story said more than 100,000 people signed up for a .nyc domain. More than 10,000 people signed up.
In total there are about 50 founders representing a diverse group of people and organizations across the city. In August a “landrush” period began, where businesses and residents had the opportunity to register for a .nyc domain while paying a higher fee. More than 10,000 people signed up during this period, which ended at the beginning of this month.
The quote seems to have come from Jeff Neuman, VP-registry services at Neustar which is operating the .NYC extension on behalf of the City.
We know as of today there are over 6,400 registered domain names in the .NYC zone file.
Any domain names that were applied for in landrush but had more than one applicant are headed off to auction and those domain names are not in the zone file yet.
Snapnames.com is owned by Web.com (WWWW).
We published a post the other day regarding the details of the .NYC landrush auctions, which you can read here.
We will be reporting those numbers tomorrow .
Personally i think numbers will be similar to .london. Maybe a tad higher. 100k? They won’t reach 100k even after a month of general availability. At least, that’s my prediction.
wow, holy crap! lol That is a lot of domain speculating
Obviously with so many gTLDs coming online the market will be MASSIVELY diluted, but I bet “.NYC” is most likely to keep its value. The main problem I see is that the vast majority of registrants will be domain prospectors that will be looking to resell. If nothing is available for established businesses like “johnspizzaria.nyc” or “bhphotovideo.nyc” then the TLD won’t take a real foothold or at least will take a very long time to get a foothold in the city landscape. And with so many auctions going the market will be completely saturated. Some domains will obviously sell no matter what but most could be worthless
They must be exaggerating. A lot of business registering their names, which is good. It might not be good names, but its names 🙂
Agree that most will “not be good names”. The first registration I saw in this process was on twitter where the person was beaming about winning a landrush application for “NATHALIEMOLINANINO.NYC”. I mean seriously, why would anyone pay a landrush fee for that? Why not just MOLINANINO.NYC and then have your email as NATALIE@MOLINANINO.NYC. There’s going to be a lot of junk or a lot of personally applicable names.
By the way, 101domain.com and godaddy.com were rock stars in this process. They submitted everything fast and updated quickly on the results, and had a huge hit rate of over 80%. Name.com was garbage with a 10% hit rate and worse than garbage was domain.com who didn’t even submit half the orders and has not updated a single domain in over 2 weeks now
I love .NYC. Too bad I could not register club.nyc as I live in Fort Lauderdale. I am not a big proponent of regulating the internet. Its a slippery slope. I also read the adage article, and when I read it they updated it. I cut and paste the text below. Still a great name though. If you live in NYC its going to be one of the top names. Grab your great name before its gone.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story said more than 100,000 people signed up for a .nyc domain. More than 10,000 people signed up.
Oh i assure you no one would register club.nyc, they are keeping most one word high items for open auctions, which i think will be happening in a few month. Club is certainly is one of those supe premium words.
10,000 people is more likely, since there were still some good domains available today. I am sure it will be picked mostly clean within a week.
That makes more sense
So, this article should correct too
Well i think they count amount of domains, not amount of businesses.
I got some decent names on today’s launch day, surprisingly solid.
I am pretty much spent till Auctions, will bid my time and save my shekels .
Here are the top google search results for live .nyc websites:
wepark.nyc
radiant.nyc
newyearseve.nyc
winterseve.nyc
zso.nyc
flatirondistrict.nyc
resistor.nyc
trivia.nyc
laz.nyc
adelphi.nyc
columbusavenuebid.nyc
leu.nyc
mammamia.nyc
bluesky.nyc
1940snewyork.nyc
livestream.nyc
ilfornobakery.nyc
gaycitynews.nyc
chamber.nyc
flo.nyc
hilary.nyc
newyorkrugby.nyc
makerspace.nyc
studiomplus.nyc
more at:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A.nyc
wow, thats a huge list already! I looked at full list and it already has full 6 pages of Google searches sites with active .nyc names.
I already have a .nyc site live, to observe how Google will be treating it for seo.