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1st Official New gTLD Registry Purchase As Radix Acquires .Tech

October 9, 2014 by Michael Berkens

Radix a new gTLD registry announce today that is has acquire the new gTLD .Tech

The ICANN auction for .Tech was held last month with the winning bid of $6,760,000 being placed by dot Tech LLC,  which is owned by the same principals of the company  the operate the .UNO registry.

The other applicants for .Tech were  Donuts, Uniregistry, Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds + Machines) and Google .

Radix either bought the registry post auction or pre-auction

Either way its a great win for Radix.

The new gTLD .Technology which has already been launched by Donuts, has over 20,000 registrations according to ntldstats.com

According to a press release we received by Radix, .Tech “is an extension dedicated to the technology community, created and conceived for use by startups, software, hardware, hi-tech corporations and technical professionals.

“We are delighted to add .tech to our TLD portfolio. This new extension will represent the ever growing community of users who truly understand the power of the internet, and appreciate the value of a powerful identity online. As a techy at heart, this is an extension that I can personally relate and connect with the most.” states Bhavin Turkahia CEO of Radix Registry.

There are close to 800,000-registered domain names that include the word “tech” with an estimated 200,000 such new domains registered every year.
Apart from working with its Registrar partners, Radix plans to enthusiastically market .tech directly to its target users via advertising, direct marketing campaigns and events that attract the tech enthusiasts and start up communities like SXSW and Tech Crunch’s Disrupt.

Slated for a Q1 2015 launch, .tech is Radix’s 5th uncontested extension after .press, .host, .website and .space.

 

Filed Under: New gTLD's, Radix

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. encirca says

    October 9, 2014 at 1:58 pm

    I predict Radix will do a great job with this TLD.

    • Sandeep Ramchandani says

      October 9, 2014 at 7:01 pm

      appreciate the vote of confidence. very excited about taking this to market.

  2. cmac says

    October 9, 2014 at 2:45 pm

    way too much money for a single tld…


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