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.NYC Gets Around 650 Domain Registrations Out Of 16k+ On The ICANN Collision List

October 9, 2015 by Michael Berkens

.NYC celebrated its one year anniversary yesterday by releasing over 16,000 domain names which were previously unavailable due to being placed on the ICANN collision list.

We ran the list through a whois program earlier today and according to the results somewhere around 650 of these domain names got registered.

If you have ever gone through an ICANN collision list a substantial percentage of the list contains a lot of nonsensical domains, containing random letters and/or numbers or are otherwise are not domain suitable for registration.

To their credit .NYC could have pulled off the best of the collision domain names and put them up on SnapNames.com for auction (where the Landrush domains for .NYC were auctioned)  in which case they would have generated a lot more than the $35 or average registration price.

.NYC however passed on the auction idea and let them all fly as a drop on a true 1st come, 1st served fashion.

Although the release was promised to be staggered over a 2 hour period, chatting with a couple of registrars and registrants it seems all the domains were made available around 3 and by 3:30 and the drop was finished.

Neustar (NSR) manages the .NYC extension on behalf of the city of New York.

 

 

 

Filed Under: .NYC, Domain Names, Domains, Neustar, New gTLD's, SnapNames.com Tagged With: .nyc, domain, Domain Auction, Domain Auctions, domain names, Domains, ICANN. Neustar, snapnames.com

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. SoFreeDomains says

    October 10, 2015 at 12:48 am

    650 out of 16000, there is still a long way to go.

    • janedoe says

      October 10, 2015 at 4:04 am

      As mentioned, a large portion of those 16,000 are worthless

      • Dk says

        October 10, 2015 at 10:22 am

        Actually 650 was surprising amount, since there were really only few 100 domains worth anything. Most of them was jiberish. like mzwqredfa1 mzwqredfa2 etc. Hence 650 is gigantic number for the amount of no value domains the list had. We could say 80% of all even meh but senscial domains were taken.


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