Two of Uniregistry new gTLD strings had their first day of general availability yesterday and put up pretty horrible numbers according to ntldstats.com.
Including Sunrise registrations .Christmas ended its first day with just 422 registrations, 18 of them were registered by Uniregistry itself.
Here are some of the domain name Uniregistry registered:
Always.christmas
behomefor.christmas
Boycott.christmas
Camera.christmas
Cameras.christmas
Cayman.christmas
egift.christmas
Flyaway.christmas
Gift4.christmas
Girls.christmas
Grandcayman.christmas
Offers.christmas
Santaclaus.christmas
Secretsanta.christmas
Skivacations.christmas
Stockingstuffers.christmas
Many of the domain names that were just a day earlier as being shown as available for registration wound up being reserved by the registry.
We are not sure if it domain names were moved to the reserved list at the last moment or if the information registrars were getting was incorrect.
.Blackfriday including Sunrise wound up with 401 new gTLD (Now Updated due to lag in reporting by ntldstats.com) registrations after the first day of general availability.
I guess Mike’s prediction yesterday, namely “…..I’m going to go on record saying that .Christmas is going to be Uniregisty most registered new gTLD extension (not counting domains registered by North Sound) which I hope doesn’t occur until at least tomorrow so customers can have the first shot.” was a bit optimistic.
I don’t think most registrants are looking to trade *down* to 9-letter TLDs, from their superior dot-com domains — most folks want to trade “up”. The added expense for 1 day of the year might only be worth it for the largest of companies, and perhaps then only justifiable as a redirect to their dot-com page..
Well George as I mentioned in the post a lot of the domains I had placed orders on the day before which were showing as available wound up on the reserved list.
Things like toys.christmas I ordered at 5 different registrars the night before it showed as available, not reserved while other domains like santaclaus.christmas wound up being registered by Uniregistry.
I still think the .Christmas will get over the 5K mark by the end of the year
@Michael Berkens: I am sorry – we had some trouble with CZDS last night and did not update .blackfriday stats until now.
SO what is the total you have for .blackfriday now?
401 domains ( http://ntldstats.com/tld/blackfriday )
So, I suppose one might say it was a “Black Tuesday” for dot-blackfriday? 🙂 (crash.blackfriday seems to be unregistered, i.e. the stock market crash)
How many more days until North Sound Names steps in, to inflate the registration numbers and lift the TLDs from the lower depths of the new gTLDs charts?
Perhaps for ease of tracking, North Sound Names might place their names on a group of dedicated vanity nameservers, such as ns1.fake-it-til-you-make-it.blackfriday and ns2.fake-it-til-you-make-it.blackfriday — this way, tracking services that adjusted for the NSI .xyz inflated registrations can do the same for Uniregistry extensions.
“What if Christmas, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!”
― How the George Stole dotChristmas! – Dr. Seuss,
lol Very creative. 🙂
Uniregistry doing this isn’t news, it’s business as usual.
One of the problems with extensions like this one (.christmas), that was gone over before any of these came out, was these are usually in the wrong order.
With Christmas, the best phrases have Christmas coming first, not second.
One of the ones mentioned above, toys.christmas, if somebody posted about toyschristmas.com on a forum, they would get clowned on because it’s in the wrong order, nobody says that. While toys is a great keyword all by itself, with these new extensions, it needs to be in a place where it makes sense, in the right order. Making sense are where a lot of these regs just fail.
@JBLions, .bingo!