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Premium and .live stats, date for 2-character release — Rightside reveals

Fresh TLD firm offers stats regarding .live and premium domain names.

Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) published some interesting stats regarding its second quarter today. Here are some of the notable numbers:

  • $1 million premium sales (wholesale) from premiums in Q2. This was probably helped by the firm’s special renewal pricing on premium domains.
  • The firm has sold less than 2% of its premium inventory to date. (Rightside was much more aggressive than other registries when it came to marking domains as premium.)
  • 1,700 premium .Live domains have been sold year-to-date, generating $780,000 wholesale. Only 6% of premium .live inventory has been sold so far.
  • The firm is releasing previously unavailable two-character inventory starting in September.

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