Reglikedomain industry desk

To roll, .Store has solid sunrise — .VIP continues

40,000 more .vip registrations, .store has over 500 sunrise applications.

The .VIP domain name continues to rack up registrations and the .Store registry states it’s off to a solid start.

.VIP broke launch records when it was released earlier this month, and it continues to grow rapidly.

As stated by data released by the registry:

  • Another 40,000 .vip domains have been registered since the first 24 hours. That brings the total to 213,000+
  • 85% of registrations are from China
  • Nearly half of NNN.vip and NNNN.vip domain names are now registered
  • 3,100 premium domains have been sold
  • 6 .VIP domains sold for a combined $146,000 in the first auction to include .VIP domains

Meanwhile, Radix is reporting solid demand for its .store top level domain name.

Over 500 sunrise orders have been placed with 5 days left in the .store sunrise. With registrars charging between $850-$1,500 for sunrise applications, this means firms have probably spent over $500,000 so far.

.Store has the potential to be huge, and I’m excited to see that registrars have low first year prices for general availability .store domains.

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