1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Direct 1,710 & .Place 769

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Donuts launched two new gTLD’s into general availability (GA) yesterday for .Direct and .Place where the domain names are available on first come, first served basis and wound up with less than 2,500 registrations

After the 1st day of GA including those domain names registered in the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and the Early Access Period (EAP) where people paid additional fees to get early access to registrations here are the totals:

.Direct 1,710

.Place 769

Today the new gTLD’s .Beer and .Surf go into GA.

 

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.