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.News and .Site have big first day

by Andrew Allemann — July 16, 2015 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Two new domain names add solid numbers on first day of general availability.

Two highly anticipated new top level domain names launched yesterday, and both had a good debut.

.News added about 8,000 registrations on its first “zone day”, bringing the total to 9,000. .News had already racked up about 1,000 domain names through sunrise and early access. Rightside provided these stats:

– Biggest Rightside Sunrise to date (500 domains)
– Biggest Rightside EAP to date (both volume and revenue – over 1000 domains)
– Biggest Rightside day 1 of GA to date
– Fastest Rightside TLD to 10k domains (currently sitting around 10,250 as of earlier this morning).
– 8th biggest Rightside TLD already
– 5th biggest Rightside TLD for premiums already, despite lighter touch strategy
– Great brand adoption – Sky Broadcasting, Amazon, Times Newspapers, Fox, Gannett, Sinclair, Tribune are just some of the others to join.

.Site added about 9,000 domain names to the zone file, bringing its total to just shy of 10,000.

About 4,000 of the .site domain names were registered at West263.com, a Chinese domain name registrar. The company promoted the domain name on its home page at a special price — just 32 yaun. That’s about $5 USD.

Most registrars were charging $20 or more for first year .site registrations.

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Name.com runs smart .News promotion

by Andrew Allemann — June 26, 2015 Domain Registrars 7 Comments

Other registries and registrars should take a look at this promotion.

Name.com is running a well-designed marketing contest for free .News domain names. Competitors should take note.

The domain name registrar is giving away 100 free non-premium .news domain names when the top level domain releases to the public next month. In order to get one of the free domains, people have to go to a webpage and enter their email address.

They’ll then be given a place in line, and the top 100 people in line on July 15 get a free domain. Click to continue reading…

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.News premium list slimmed down, here are 37k that didn’t make the cut

by Andrew Allemann — June 17, 2015 Uncategorized 1 Comment

Rightside slims down premium list for .News, and some good domains will be available at regular prices.

Rightside’s upcoming .News top level domain name launch should be one to watch. .News works with many terms, giving it big potential for second level domain name registrations. Retail pricing is also a reasonable $20-$30.

I’ve commented before about how Rightside has managed to capture just about every good domain in its TLDs and stick a premium on them. The company is taking a different tack on .News: it will keep 12,000 at premium, but is releasing another 37k originally identified for the premium list at regular prices. (About half of those 12,000 premiums will be geo domains, meaning about 6,000 other terms will have a premium price.)

You can see the entire list of identified domains Click here to continue reading…

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