One company is responsible for registering over 97% of the 9,025 .Voting new gTLD domain names. We reported earlier today that .Voting had 9,025 domain names registered after the first day of general availability However we see that 8,811 of the 9,025 domain names were registered by the domain name registrar, Registry Gate GmbH" which seems to be a member of the Key Drive family of … [Read more...]
This Weeks New gTLD 1st Day Totals: .Voting 9,025; .Kaufen 4,325; Consulting 3,852; Media 3,438
Yesterday a bunch of new gTLD's went into general availability (GA) meaning domain names can be registered live on a first come first serve basis. All total include any Sunrise registrations and any Landrush/Early Access Program (EAP) registration which took place before GA: .Voting 9.025 .Kaufen which is German for the word "Buy" had 4,325 .Consulting 3,852 .Media … [Read more...]
Sunrise/Early Access Program Domains Taken in .Pictures: Fox, HBO & Some Good Generics
We published a post earlier today that included .Pictures that went into general availability today. We thought we would take a look at some of the more interesting Sunrise and Early Access Program (EAP) registrations for .Pictures keeping in mind some of these had a premium registration and renewal rate in addition to the EAP … [Read more...]
gTLD’s: Now It Gets Interesting: .Pics, .Pictures, Photo, .Photos
Tomorrow the new gTLD .Pictures launches into general availability status meaning it can be registered on a first come first served basis. We have been chatting about plural and singular new gTLD's for a while as well as vertical competition but with the launch of this new domain name extension we can actually start to see what the effect of these different but similar strings have on the new … [Read more...]
.Moe Ends 1st Day Of General Avalibility With 1K Domains & Only Has 199,998,930 To Go
The .Moe registry predicted that .Moe would get 200 Million domain name registrations in short order, blowing past .Com registration which are at over 113,500,000 registrations. Well after the first day .Moe is well on its way after racking up 1,070 registrations after Sunrise, Landrush and on the 1st day of General Availability (GA). .Moe is only short of its 200,0000,000 goal by … [Read more...]
Netsol .XYZ Registrations Top 300,000, Back Over 85% of all .XYZ Registrations
ntldstats.com updated once again today and the number of .XYZ domain names registered at Network Solutions topped 305,000 registrations. The total number of .XYZ registrations is at over 355,000 The share of .XYZ registrations attributable to NetworkSolutions (NetSol) is now back over 85%. Network Solutions has been giving free .XYZ domain names to its existing customers on an opt out … [Read more...]
I’ll Say It, 10K .Tokyo Domain Registrations Is Not Good
.Tokyo launched and taking into account the 80+ Sunrise and Landrush application I would say a first day total of less than 10,000 registrations isn't great. The price of a .Tokyo domain name registration was very reasonable priced at around $15, There were no premium registration and renewal priced domains although there were certainly reserved domains. There were no residence … [Read more...]