.Church was the top TLD launch yesterday.
Going into yesterday, I bet that .guide would be Donuts’ top domain name launch of the week. It’s a fairly generic domain that works with a number of second level domains, similar to .tips (which now has 30,000 registrations).
I should have known that word travels fast in the religious community.
.Church was the top domain yesterday, gaining 3,409 registrations in the zone file to end with 4,044.
.Guide wasn’t too far behind. It got 2,895 to end with 3,386.
.Life, which also has a number of uses, picked up 1,783 to hit 2,106.
The financial domain .loans only garnered 418 registrations to reach 632.
Rightside launched its .republican domain. It had a slow start similar to .democrat. It grew by only 343 domains to 389.
Radix was supposed to launch .website, .press and .host yesterday. It delayed the launch until today.
Joseph Peterson says
For religious denominations, identity is often a hotly contested issue.
Heretics have been burned at the stake for the sake of this or that orthodoxy; so it’s no surprise that controlling those defining labels might matter to churches.
And there are more than enough sects to please the registry.
James says
I don’t believe this extension would give legitimacy to a known religion, .org is the way to go for churches. This extension will be registered mainly by scammers and domain investors hoping to re-sell them to scammers.
Raj Domains says
.church domain name will gain more in coming days maybe ….