It was a busy day today for Frank Schilling and his company Uniregistry, as five uncontested strings went live at around 12 noon Eastern time. The strings that went live today were the following: .Pics, .Photo, .Gift, .Link and .Guitars.
Out the gate at 12:03 Frank tweeted:
.photo past 1000
— Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) April 15, 2014
Pretty quickly there were 2000 regs between Link, Pics and Photo. Frank tweeted his thoughts later in the day with regard to .Link and received a differing opinion from Kevin Murphy of DomainIncite.com
@pandersen It “is” the golden age of naming bro. I think .LINK is better than .INFO (Taking owner’s hat off and putting my domainer hat on)
— Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) April 15, 2014
@Frank_Schilling I’ve always thought of .link as a “throwaway” domain. I can imagine renewals being relatively small.
— Kevin Murphy (@DomainIncite) April 15, 2014
Registration no. 1 in today’s launch, across all five TLDs was… 2014-04-15 16:00:00.007486 | 3dprinting.link | dom101.
3dprinter.buzz
3DPRINTER.LINK
3DPRINTER.PICS
3dprinting.buzz
3DPRINTING.LINK
3DPRINTING.PHOTO
3DPRINTING.PICS
ADDA.BUZZ
adda.link
AUTOGRAPHED.GUITARS
BLACKANDWHITE.BUZZ
blackandwhite.pics
blackfriday.gift
BODYBUILDING.PICS
catcha.buzz
catchthe.buzz
CHECKOUTTHIS.LINK
CHECKOUTTHIS.PHOTO
checkthe.link
CHRISTMASBASKETS.GIFT
clickonthe.link
clickthe.link
COLLECTIBLE.GUITARS
EASTERBASKETS.GIFT
ECARD.GIFT
enlarge.pics
exchangea.link
EXCHANGEA.PHOTO
EXCHANGEA.PICS
FLORIDA.PICS
generate.buzz
geta.buzz
givemea.buzz
giveyoua.buzz
gota.buzz
GOTA.LINK
GOTA.PHOTO
GREAT.GUITARS
hearthe.buzz
lasvegas.pics
live.pics
miami.pics
mywedding.pics
needmore.buzz
ourwedding.pics
professional.pics
PUBLISH.BUZZ
publish.photo
PUBLISH.PICS
satellite.pics
secretary.pics
SELFIES.BUZZ
SELFIES.LINK
selfies.photo
SELFIES.PICS
sella.photo
sharea.link
sharea.photo
shoota.photo
shopfora.gift
signed.guitars
SMART.GIFT
smash.guitars
southbeach.pics
sponsora.link
supermodel.photo
supermodel.pics
supermodels.photo
supermodels.pics
trending.photo
vacation.pics
VEGAS.PICS
whatisthe.buzz
Disclosures: Uniregistry is an advertiser on thedomains.com and HybridDomainer.com. New gTLDs are highly speculative and nothing in this article should be construed as a recommendation, each person must do their own homework and stick to their budget and risk tolerance.
Many of those terms seemed forced, or reaching. As well plural//plural, I would assume focus be on qualify, not quantify. Regardless let us here wgAt others have to say, I am just one opinion, and follow a very disciplined criteria so I could be off the mark myself.
Viral.marketing is a great brand, but you should mention it was acquired for $1,xxx, not a simple reg fee.
Thanks Richard, I had that noted but rushing to get stuff out.
Not bad for a first day’s work: (the first is this morning’s domain count for .link and the second is the change.
link 20050 19945
John premium names entered the root too, so they were not all registered. They will be sold by North Sound Domains. The company that did a deal with Uniregistry to sell premium names.
Yep Raymond. It will be interesting to see the North Sound Domains emerging in the root as a distinct hoster but the high number on internettraffic.com might suggest that they are on those nameservers temporarily. It is in Landrush phase so the figures are going to be bumpy for the next few days.
I meant in the .link zone. 🙂 Haven’t had my morning coffee yet.
“Uniregistry is an advertiser on thedomains.com and HybridDomainer.com.”
We could tell, didn’t mention the other reg numbers.
According to http://ntldstats.com/tld
pics – 2,368
photo – 5,347
guitars – 513
@JB I mean Cindy I think those are good first day numbers for .pics and photo for the first day, especially with how many on collision.
Mostly junk…
Most of these domains are available for hand reg in dot com as of now, for example:
3DPRINTERPICS.COM
3DPRINTINGPICS.COM
BLACKANDWHITEBUZZ.COM
CHECKOUTTHISPHOTO.COM
CHRISTMASBASKETSGIFT.COM
EASTERBASKETSGIFT.COM
ENLARGEPICS.COM
EXCHANGEAPHOTO.COM
EXCHANGEAPICS.COM
NEEDMOREBUZZ.COM
PUBLISHPICS.COM
SELFIESLINK.COM
SPONSORALINK.COM
SUPERMODELSPHOTO.COM
193 distinct hosters in .link with the top ones being:
| INTERNETTRAFFIC.COM | 18272 |
| SEDOPARKING.COM | 350 |
| NAME.COM | 280 |
| ONLYDOMAINS.COM | 118 |
| uniregistry-dns.net | 118 |
| uniregistry-dns.com | 118 |
| 101DOMAIN.COM | 105 |
| GANDI.NET | 99 |
| REGISTRAR-SERVERS.COM | 48 |
| DONDOMINIO.COM | 45 |
| ISPAPI.NET | 37 |
| UDAGDNS.DE | 34 |
| DSREDIRECTION.COM | 34 |
| UDAGDNS.NET | 34 |
| ISC-SNS.COM | 33 |
| uniregistry.net | 33 |
| ISC-SNS.INFO | 33 |
| ISC-SNS.NET | 33 |
Congratulation Mike.
What a great marketing ploy…
or was it a coincidence that you were first in line?
link better than info? uh?
strange words to hear nowadays were in the SEO world ‘link’ has become a dirty word per se…
Anyhow they have a little catch up to do…Today there is 5 Million 8 Hundred thousand dot info registrations/Rolling Tumbleweeds… 5 800 000
mike has 200k to blow.
Oversaturation and redundancy at its finest. And when that happens, if gold was as plentiful as aluminum for example, you have something of little value. It essentially becomes a buyer’s market with with way more inventory than could ever be consumed.
All that said, it is interesting to follow this “golden age of naming” (bro). Yes, golden for the successful registrars, at least for the short term… but not so much for those who are looking at this as an investment. Surely there will be some good end-user sales down the road, but most people investing in these names might as well put their money in the lottery.
Domo
Definitely not a marketing ploy as far as being the first I was notified late in the day so in that way kind of like winning the lottery.
I did suggest the Uniregistry award the 1st registrant of the day with a prize i suggested a Ferrari but my email went unanswered
🙂
No Ferrari for you.
And congrats on your name, I am not crazy about most of the new gTLDs but this one in particular sounds so ‘STONE AGE” just as .web…but what do I know?
Are all domains registered/picked by your company hand chosen by you? …I am sure your wife helps but do you have a Team
researching possibilities or for the most part are you flying solo? just curious…
Branding Branding Branding…
Purchased a couple of good .guitars domains including nyc.guitars which I purchased yesterday evening. Checked the whois records this evening and saw that someone else had purchased this domain today. Contacted Uniregistry and Key Systems about this issue. Payment was made yesterday with e-mail confirmation of payment. Not good.
Here’s an update to my experience in purchasing nyc.guitars. Seems I received an e-mail some time after I received a notice of payment, i.e., after I went to bed since I made the payment approaching mid-night. An e-mail came in claiming that NYC is a trademark and I was required to indicate that I received this notice before the registration could be completed. Would have been nice to have received an e-mail from Key Systems indicating that I would be receiving a follow-up e-mail regarding this requirement. Instead, I reeived no heads up and someone else comes in and grabs the domain while I’m asleep. Doesn’t seem right…
I agree NuMedia that is bogs and a bunch of nonsense.
It could be that nyc.guitars may be taken back by the registry as nyc is a new gTLD and may be on the block list.
@ numedia, According to DomainTools, the time of the current registration of nyc.guitars is:
2014-04-16 T03:48:14.133 Z
What is the time of the email notification to you, of the potential trademark infringement, in zulu?
The, “z,” at the end of the creation date and time, I think, refers to, “zulu.” Please google it, and find out the time you received the email notification, in zulu.
Let’s say UniRegistry / Key Systems gave you five minutes to respond to the email. The sequence would have been:
1) not hearing from you
2) take nyc.guitars from your account
3) make it available
4) Daniel Rhee (current registrant) searched it
5) Daniel Rhee registered it
What are the chances? If Daniel Rhee searched the term, and found it unavailable, it is doubtful he would have tried a 2nd time!
It would have had to been in that moment – when nyc.guitars became available for a matter of hours? minutes? – when Daniel Rhee searched the domain, found it available, and registered it.
Interesting trivia:
As far as Quantcast.com:
DomainNameSales.com has higher traffic than Sedo.com
DomainNameSales.com has a better ranking than Sedo.com
DomainNameSales.com has more traffic than Afternic.com
DomainNameSales.com has a better ranking than Afternic.com.
It is 154k us monthly users DomainNameSales vs 33k us monthly users Sedo . . .