.NYC – 26,853 Registrations on Day One of General Availability

The new gTLD .NYC launched yesterday and after the first 24 hours of General Availability there are 26,853 .NYC domain names registered.

The results are not as good as everyone was expecting. .NYC had 6,398 domain names in the zone files , so .NYC added 20,455 domain names after its general availability.

.NYC is the new extension for New York City.Only individuals and businesses with a physical address in New York City are eligible to acquire a .NYC domain name.

The numbers also include registrations from Sunrise and Landrush period.

.NYC ranks 17th among all the new gTLDs at the time of writing this article.