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Over 100,000 .App domains already registered

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Google’s .App domain name pops in first day of general availability.

Over 100,000 .app domain names have been registered after less than a day in general availability.

Google Tech Lead Ben McIlwain disclosed the number during a talk at Google I/O this afternoon.

30,000 domain names, ostensibly pre-registrations, were registered within the first three minutes of general availability.

17,000 domain names were registered during the early access period over the past week.

These are stunning numbers for a new top level domain name and could give all new top level domain names some much-needed exposure.

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.App continues to soar, sets records at GoDaddy

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Domain is headed for biggest new TLD launch yet.

I might sound like a broken record here, but .app continues to outperform essentially all new top level domain name launches to date.

Although it’s not reflected in the zone file, Google’s Ben McIlwain reports that over 7,500 domain names were registered during day five of the early access phase.

That puts all other new TLDs to shame.

I continue to get cancellation notices on pre-orders I placed since the domains are no longer available.

This morning, GoDaddy VP Paul Nicks confirmed to DNW that .App is its biggest new top level domain launch to date in terms of pre-orders at the registrar. Every day of early access has beaten the same day of other new TLD early access periods, and it has more pre-orders than any other domain.

Prior to .App, .Guru was the largest (it was first) and .VIP was second in terms of volume at GoDAddy.

Given these results, you might want to adjust your strategy if you have a pre-order domain. Remember, if more than one person has pre-ordered a domain at GoDaddy then you’ll wind up in an auction. It might be worth paying the day 7 EAP price today rather than risk an auction.

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Namecheap jumps up .Com leaderboard

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Namecheap gets boost from bulk transfer from Tucows.

ICANN has published the latest official .com data from January.

January is typically an up month for domain name registrations as the year kicks off, and you’ll see that in the data.

Namecheap lept up the top registrar chart to #6 thanks to a massive bulk transfer of domains from Tucows.

In January, these were the top 10 registrars in terms of new .com registrations: Click here to continue reading…

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.App continues to explode, Coinbase registers nearly 100 .app domains

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Nearly 6,000 .apps are already in the zone.

Google’s .app top level domain name continues to prove itself a winner from a registrations standpoint.

The domain name entered day 5 of its early access program yesterday. This is the cheapest day of early access; the price remains at the current level for days 6 and 7.

Waiting until day 5 of early access meant missing out on a lot of domains. All of my day 5 pre-orders were snapped up in earlier days.

There are about 6,000 .app domain names in the zone now.

Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase was particularly active on day 3 of early access, registering nearly 100 domain names. These are mostly for defensive reasons, as you’ll be able to see when reviewing the list.

General availability opens on Tuesday. You can get domains for about $15-$20 starting then…but you’ll be competing against a lot of people.

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Take a look at Google’s 11 sites built on .Google

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Google has developed 11 websites that use .Google domains.

Google is getting a lot of press this week thanks to its launch of .App, but .App is just one of dozens of new top level domains that Google controls.

During the 2012 round of top level domain name expansion, many companies applied for top level domains that match their brand names, e.g. .google. While applicants for these domains have been slow to build sites on them, the number of developed websites on dot-brand domains is steadily increasing.

Google has developed 11 of the 17 domains it has registered under the .Google top level domain name. Here’s a look at these 11 sites:

Google Design – Design.Google

A cooperative effort led by a group of designers, writers and developers at Google.

Click here to see more sites on .Google

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