.WANG – 15,000 Registrations on Day One of General Availability

[news release] Zodiac Registry is pleased to announce that 15,000 .wang domain names have been registered during the first 24 hours of its General Availability, which started on 00:00, June 30, Beijing time. Within the first 2 hours, more than 7,000 domain names were taken.

“We are very pleased with our day one performance in an unprecedented and over-crowded new gTLD launch space”, commented Eugene Li, CEO of Zodiac Registry, “thanks to our team and our partners. It’s an impressive debut, considering the market conditions and the constraints we have.”

.wang is the first Zodiac-operated gTLD that has entered General Availability. An ingenious Chinese pinyin with multiple meanings, .wang’s successful launch demonstrates its appeal to not only the Chinese but also to the broader market.

“This is a good start”, says Eugene Li, “but it’s just the beginning. We are continuing to expand our registrar network and we hope by the end of this year, .wang will be among the top five new gTLDs.”

Dubbed “the king of the net”, .wang has no registrant eligibility criteria so it is open for everyone to register. It is also strategically priced as an affordable new gTLD. Only a very small number of premium names are reserved by the registry so many great domain names, including three-character ones, are still available.

About Zodiac Registry

Zodiac Holdings Limited and its affiliates were founded in 2008 in anticipation of the launch of the ICANN new gTLD program. Zodiac is the single largest new gTLD applicant with a total of 15 applications that are uniquely positioned to serve the Chinese speaking Internet users around the globe. Zodiac has a core team of domain industry veterans with its headquarters in Beijing.

Second Level .UK Registrations Top Six Figures In Under 4 Weeks

The launch of second level .uk registrations has been a success with over 100,000 registrations since their launch on 10 June, but there were almost 225,000 registrations across all .uk domains meaning registrations of .co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk domains were greater than .uk.

But it was a bumper month for .uk (United Kingdom), and the biggest since March 2000 when registrations nudged 225,000.

“Given that the domain name market is more competitive than ever before, this is a fantastic endorsement of the power of the UK brand,” Eleanor Bradley, Nominet’s Chief Operating Officer said.

“We’re pleased not only that our new .uk domain has hit this milestone, but that other .uk domains such as .co.uk and .org.uk continue to be so popular as hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) hit the market. It shows that highlighting your UK connection continues to be a compelling prospect for businesses and individuals online.”

Existing .uk registrants are being given first choice to register their existing third level domain (eg. .co.uk) with the corresponding second level domain. However Nominet note that new second level registrations are proving popular with over one third (36%) being new, unique registrations in the past week.

There are over 10.5 million domains registered in the UK namespace making it the third largest ccTLD behind .tk (Tokelau) with 24.5 million registrations, but these domains are given away for free. Second is .de (Germany) with 15.7 million registrations.

Including gTLDs, .com is the largest TLD with 113.5 million registrations, followed by .tk, .de, .net (15.2m), .uk and then .org (15.2m).

The above statistics come from registry websites, registrarstats.com and domain-recht.de.

Sedo Reports $2,3 Million in Domain Name Sales! MM.com Topped Sedo’s Weekly Sales List at $1,2 Million

MM.com topped Sedo’s weekly sales chart at $1,2 million. Highlights also include Eingangstur.de, leading the ccTLD category at 7,500 EUR and Eat.club,leading the “Other” category at $20,000.

 

Other notable domain name sales include :

.COM

bmh.com 20,000 EUR

xsd.com 15,000 USD

puyricard.com 14,750 EUR

havwoods.com 13,000 USD

artha.com 12,000 USD

yzh.com 11,765 USD

ashy.com 11,000 USD

outofoffice.com 10,000 USD

attn.com 10,000 USD

try-on.com 9,999 EUR

qpa.com 8,999 USD

marcom.com 8,000 USD

estrich.com 7,550 EUR

doggs.com 6,000 USD

simab.com 5,000 USD

chakde.com 5,000 USD

capy.com 4,850 USD

promonotes.com 4,500 USD

fanmen.com 4,500 USD

fordis.com 4,070 USD

tolltv.com 4,000 USD

kurchenko.com 3,998 GBP

travelusa.com 3,900 USD

inthepocket.com 3,550 USD

soundio.com 3,500 USD

laundering.com 3,500 USD

wtfn.com 3,500 USD

proshopgolf.com 3,500 USD

impact21.com 3,411 USD

whateat.com 3,295 USD

plyr.com 3,000 USD

simplymaldives.com  3,000 USD

ccTLDs

blank.fr 5,000 EUR

forgirls.de 4,000 EUR

next.es 3,999 EUR

hotelurbano.com.ar 3,500 EUR

bild-upload.de 3,500 EUR

allergy.eu 3,500 EUR

startingup.de 3,250 EUR

budapest.it 3,000 EUR

e-liquid.es 2,800 EUR

galerien.at 2,500 EUR

toys4woman.de 2,355 EUR

affinités.fr 2,000 EUR

spelletjes.nu 2,000 EUR

cache.io 1,900 USD

candlesdirect.co.uk 1,595 GBP

throttle.co.uk 1,500 GBP

mädchenblog.de 1,500 EUR

fivesquid.co.uk 1,500 GBP

zahnarzt-waldshut.de 1,500 EUR

drones.cn 1,500 EUR

Other

print.club 3,750 USD

eg.asia 3,600 USD

mobile.contractors 2,499 USD

teldta.net 2,000 USD

beard.club 1,500 USD

rolluiken.net 1,075 EUR

speak.biz 1,000 USD

regentprep.org 1,000 USD

davedennis.training 751 GBP

NameJet’s .Menu Domain Name Auction Ends With No Domain Names Sold

NameJet’s .Menu domain name auction ended with no domain names sold. The auction featured 32 .Menu domain name.

 

Six out of the 32 .Menu domain names received bids. However, none of the domain names reached the reserve.ProteinDiet.menu received the highest bid – $210.

Altough the 32 .Menu domain names were supposed to be premium .Menu domain names, many wouldn’t even have paid reg fee for them.

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