Back on March 19th we published an interview with Simon Cousins about the two extensions TLD Registry is rolling out the Chinese IDN for Online (.在线) as well as Dot Chinese Website (中文网)
Back then Simon told TheDomains.com that:
“I would say we have a greater than 50% chance of both of our strings being in the top 5 new gTLD’s in terms of domain name registrations at the end of landrush.”
Well it took a couple of days longer until the 1st day of general availability (GA) but Simon’s was right
Just 50 minutes into GA we got this note from the Registry
Dot Chinese Online (.在线) xn--3ds443g | 54,011
Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) xn--fiq228c5hs | 38,838
This of course not puts these two new gTLD into the top 5 it puts it Dot Chinese Online (.在线) into the 1st position passing .Guru and that is just within the 1st hour.
Congrats to the Registry
UPDATE
We got word from the registry later in the day that the initial reports they received from their back end provider included reserved domains
The numbers still make it the most successful first day new gTLD launch but here are the updated numbers:
Dot Chinese Online (.在线)
33,012 Domains under Management
Dot Chinese Website (.中文网)
17,537 Domains under Management
These numbers make Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website the two most-registered IDNs (#3 is .みんな — “everyone” in Japanese — with 3,455 names). By any measure, it was a good day for the TLD Registry!
cmac says
there was actually an error in reporting these. their reserved premium domains were included as well. the real numbers are about half of what was originally reported.
Michael Berkens says
I think we added that to the bottom of the post
Michael Berkens says
Also guys if you click on the Uniregistry banner you don’t just have a choice of registering a .tattoo .sexy or .link domain
You can register any domain including .com, .net and .org and many new gTLD’s other than Uniregistry’s
Check it out
http://ap.uniregistry.com/click?aid=96666669&sid=26&t=I444444H&tn=bottom-banner-ur-general-v3-1-banner-w&s=appraisingdomainnames.com
Domains Gains says
What do you Michael think, about the growth potential of English language .cn domains?
Virtually nobody talks about them…