.Store Over 20K Domain Names Registered

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The new gTLD .Store which launched into General Availability today has over 20,000 registrations as of publication.

.Store which had over 500 Sunrise registrations by trademark holders, putting it in  the top 10 in terms of new sunrise applications, got 10,000 domain name registrations in the 1st 10 minutes of GA.

According to Facebook and Twitter posts, .Store has over 20,000 domain registrations.

Certainly .store is a great extension, but Radix has reserve domains and premium domain pricing on available domains.

We will update everyone in the morning.

.Store had 7 applicants including Amazon and Google but was won by Radix.

GMO Registry, Inc. paid $41,501,000 in an ICANN auction for a similar new gTLD .Shop

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.

Comments

    • cmac says

      i would disagree buy and shop are both backwards gtlds. clothes.buy is backwards clothes.store is not.

      • John says

        I would say that idea is appealing in some cases, but that in other cases it’s still superior to be “backwards.” “Shop” is also a noun synonymous with “store” as well as a verb, so it’s a “double threat.” “Backwards” is also how people often think and type when searching.

      • John says

        Additionally, “noun + buy” is a very common compound noun in English usage as well, so in that sense it is also a “double threat” of both backward and forward. Home buy, car buy, diamond buy, etc.

    • Andersrb says

      If i am not mistaken the GMO Registry gTLD .shop will not accept domain name speculation.

  4. frank.schilling says

    I like .store. We applied for the string, but much preferred .shop .. I wound up avoiding .shop because I thought the contention would be untenable. In the long-run, as registrars do a better job marketing new name endings, .shop registrants won’t be leaving the .store behind so .store should be a winner. It’s just not as international or borderless as the word “shop” .. all bets are off of course if Google wins .Web and decides (as it should) to start paying preferential search ranking to the .Web name site.

    That could make all other strings look like Internet Explorer in today’s Chrome world. And it would likely bring Microsoft and Apple into the domain name and search business in a bigger way.

    Wild ride ahead.

    • John says

      Well that would certainly be a great example of Google being evil.

      Also a great example of how a completely “free market” economy is so bad for society, and why good things like Net neutrality and other such policies are so desirable and so needed. Google is already way overdue for anti-trust or regulatory action in my opinion, and something like that should push them well over the edge even for the most hesitant.

      That you don’t see that or feel that way, and that you support such a move in the event of a Google-owned .Web is also rather disturbing, though I can’t say I’m completely surprised. I wonder how many others are thinking that but wouldn’t say it to you…

      While you’re at it, however, I highly recommend watching this excellent recent video about Google and some of its practices:

      “Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary?”

      https : // www . youtube . com /watch?v=PFxFRqNmXKg

      • Joseph Peterson says

        @John,

        I didn’t read Frank Schilling’s comment as “support” of Google bias. Rather, it seems he’d consider search-engine bias to be in Google’s own rational self interest. That’s no ethical judgment on his part – merely a prediction of behavior.

        Personally, I’m not sure this will happen. And I think it’s debatable whether it really would be in Google’s self interest. If they bias SERPs in such a flagrant way, then even lazy consumers would realize what’s happening. Google might lose public good will and consequently market share. Furthermore, they might bring about the regulatory oversight by rubbing the public the wrong way.

        • John says

          I know you’re an intelligent guy, Joseph, but I would suggest that no matter how you slice it he was simply showing his true colors and expressing plain unequivocal support, and that you are only providing an appealing but ultimately specious “out” for someone to backpedal from there whether you intended to or not. Kind of like what an attorney would do. Given who it is, it’s not exactly surprising there would be reluctance in the air to read it as people normally would, or admit to.

          • Joseph Peterson says

            @John,

            But I’m not Frank Schilling’s attorney. There is no incentive for me to “backpedal” or shield him from criticism except for the simple reason that I think such condemnation may not be deserved. Schilling doesn’t pay me. And I’m not wooing him for Uniregistry sponsorship. In fact, his company banned me; and I’m boycotting them. Meanwhile, I’m quite cynical when it comes to Google. If this were “plain unequivocal support”, I’d be criticizing it. However, I don’t think that’s the case.

            It feels a bit odd devoting so much exegesis to a Frank Schilling parenthesis!

          • John says

            Well I guess we can agree to disagree about that, Joseph, or at least I can.

            Looks like we have an interesting coincidence of ironic reversal here, too, because I’m the only guy who spoke out when someone casually accused him of fraud in the industry as if it was nothing some many months ago now, resulting in no small amount of domain blog turmoil before it was all purged from the Web. One of the extremely rare cases in which I thought that particular instance of censorship was a good idea only for the sake of the industry and despite losing the public display of how I had obliterated one particular famous and “protected” forum and blog bully who had undergone a total meltdown there.

          • John says

            And P.S., I do hope you watched the video about Google I posted here. It’s particularly good.

          • Dk says

            But google does do it, i have been in seo for a while and google games their properties. It might now be direct game, they just wont reveal whats under the hood. But i am certain google games their properties indirectly and preferential treatment. I don’t think they would do it for .web, to small. But they know how we behave online, and they know how to push its visitors buttons. They run tests non stop on almost everything in their search engine.

    • John says

      And here’s the live url for the benefit of those concerned which will probably be delayed in moderation for a while:

    • John says

      And I’ll even say this to you now, Schilling: blinded by success and greed. In a word, spoiled. Very spoiled.

      But I know it’s easy to do so anonymously, though nobody knows me anyway. I’d do the same now even if I was not anonymous.

  5. ada says

    “According to Facebook and Twitter posts, .Store has over 20,000 domain registrations.”

    It is not true. According to their latest posts on Facebook and Twitter they have over 15K registrations now.
    There is nothing about 20K there at the time of writing.

    • Sandeep says

      Maybe beacuase by the time .store hit 20k, it was around 2am here in India, and our social media team was getting some well deserved sleep 🙂

  6. Raymond Chai says

    Interesting compare pricing…Bitcoins.Store still available for $5500 at Uniregistry
    I grab Ethereums.Store for $11.88 at Uniregistry….it’s bargain for me!

    • Ryan says

      Ethereums? is plural, you have already lost 99% of your audience, this is domaining 101, you are most likely set to lose money in this industry if you continue on such a path of registering plurals that do not correspond to their connecting keyword. You might get lucky on a .com, but with a gtld your sell thru rate is further hindered with bad english.

      • Raymond Chai says

        I was aware of it before I bought…. Such a small amount, I can afford to lose $11.88 anyway. My gamble is to sell for $50 before it expiring date….worst case is to drop it if no one wants it . It’s only $11.88 or 2 schooner of beers 🙂

        I won’t gamble Bitcoins.Store for $5500

  7. shane says

    The only way to make a small fortune on new tlds is start with a very large fortune first all smoke and mirrors