Reglikedomain industry desk

.Site have big first day — .News and

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

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

.News added regarding 8,000 registrations on its first “zone day”, bringing the total to 9,000. .News had by now racked up regarding 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 (right now sitting around 10,250 as of earlier this morning).
– 8th biggest Rightside TLD by now
– 5th biggest Rightside TLD for premiums by now, 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 regarding 9,000 domain names to the zone file, bringing its total to just shy of 10,000.

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

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

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