Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names registered over 9,000 domain names in the new gTLD .Hosting on January 31th
.Hosting which is owned by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry had about 2,312 domain names registrations as of January 30th, now has over 11,600 registered domain names.
Mr. Schilling has long said he would go ahead and register domain names he thought would be premium domain names after the new gTLD extension of Uniregistry has been available to the public.
.Hosting has been available for registration since around November 25, 2014, so for over two month.
Included in the over 9,000 domain names registered on January 31, seem to be all available 3 numbered .hosting domains (NNN.Hosting) and a lot of three letter .Hosting domain names (LLL.Hosting).
There is a new gTLD .Host which has around 2,200 domain registrations, about the same before the North Sound Names .Hosting registrations.
.Hosting is now the 72nd most registered new gTLD, .Host is 231 according to ntldstats.com.
It looks like 76,000 domains got registered that day, presumably across multiple new gTLDs, via Uniregistry, see:
https://ntldstats.com/registrar/1659-Uniregistrar-Corp
Wrote this at 1 feb: “Schilling register 76587 new gTLD’s in one day”
https://domaining.world/schilling-register-76587-new-gtlds-one-day/
Hope you don’t mind me linking it, believe it might be useful for those interested in this topic.
Yes, they locked up many of the 3L.extension domains within some of their gtld’s, as they had discussed they would be doing after GA was open for a while.
I see why 50% of the .hosting and .sexy domains I searched today kept displaying who is for northsoundnames..