A couple domains hit general availability, but hardly anyone notices.
I was so busy at ICANN this week that I neglected to do my weekly preview of top level domain name launches…
…but I didn’t miss much.
Only two domain names hit general availability this week.
On Tuesday, BusinessRalliart Inc. launched the Japan geo domain name .Okinawa. It’s off to a rather slow start, with about 750 names in the zone thus far.
Also this week, Google launched the .soy domain name. You might be asking yourself, “who would want to register a .soy domain name?”
The answer: not many people. Right now it has 228 registrations, according to nTLDstats.
Donuts had one domain name enter the early access phase on Wednesday: .healthcare. It will revert to regular pricing next week.
The pace picks up again next week.
Dr Jerome Mehia says
“The pace picks up again next week.”
Err, no it won’t. That IS the pace, Andrew. Face it. Gtld’s suck. No one wants them. They make no sense. They are backwards. They leak traffic. They leak email. They are confusing. They have no resale value. End users don’t care about them. Domainers don’t care about them. In summary, they suck.
The pace will only decline further.