Propels .Rocks to 17% daily gain — Cyber Monday

Rightside markets .rocks heavily as it finds an audience.

It’s interesting watching for anomalies in fresh top level domain name registrations. Consider yesterday, when the zone for Rightside’s .rocks top level domain grew by almost 17% (3,817 fresh domains in the zone, per DomainIncite).

That’s a lot of fresh domains, even when you consider Rightside registry as a whole. Here’s a chart from nTLDstats showing Rightside’s daily registration volume across all of its TLDs.

Why did .rocks rock yesterday? It seems that much of the demand was driven by a $.98 Cyber Monday special at NameCheap, an eNom reseller.

It’s interesting to watch Rightside’s portfolio of fresh TLDs. Ahead of the firm launched any domains, it seemed to be most excited regarding .Ninja. The firm used it as an example in most presentations, created swag for the domain, and told everyone who would listen that .ninja was going to be big.

Relatively speaking, it was right. .Ninja is the firm’s second most registered domain name. But sitting at the top — even ahead of yesterday’s special — is .rocks.

I don’t know how highly the firm thought of .rocks ahead of it started rolling out fresh TLDs, but it strikes me that many portfolio applicants are throwing a lot of names at the wall and seeing what sticks. .Rocks is sticking for Rightside, and now it is applying extra marketing muscle to it.

The firm uses Rightside.rocks for a URL shortener, and is pitching the same idea to other firms.

It is promoting the domain more heavily than some others as it finds consumer interest in the domain. (It has not, to my knowledge, created sexually suggestive mouse pads for the domain. Yet.)

As of today, here are Rightside’s top 5 top level domain names (per nTLDstats):

.Rocks 26,710
.Ninja 19,468
.Reviews 9,311
.Consulting 8,995
.Lawyer 8,078