The new gTLD .Bet went live into general availability (GA) yesterday where domain names could be registered on a 1st come, 1st served basis and ended the day with 13,779 registrations.
There were just a couple of hundred of registrations during sunrise so over 13,500 registrations were made on the 1st day of GA.
The new gTLD is owned by Afilias and is priced around $11.99 at Godaddy for a registration although there are domain names that have a premium registration and renewal fee.
For example the domain names Blackjack.Bet; Aces.Bet; Slots.Bet, Dice.Bet; Craps.Bet; Horses.Bet; Baseball.Bet; Basketball.net and Soccer.bet are all priced with a registration and renewal fee of $3,249,99 a year. It does seem someone paid that amount to register Football.bet yesterday.
I did a quick look through Registered.today, and it seemed around 70% of all .bet names registered yesterday were numbered domain names.
I wound up registering a few .bet domains including:
collegebasketball.bet
collegefootball.bet
great.bet
hardways.bet
highstakes.bet
hitme.bet
makea.bet
offtrack.bet
parlay.bet
winning.bet
Will the sale of alpha.bet be all it takes for the registry to recover initial fees…. You bet.
Steve
Yes they reserved the domain
Atleast I am left with zero dotbet domains because Godaddy failed to register single domain out of 9 domain orders.
Uniregistry…12,70 and topcoins
Godaddy is complicated
.be going to get all that mistyped traffic from .bet…
good for Belgiums
i bet .bet is a good one
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