I looked a bit more on the original holder of the .cyou brand extensions. The company was called ChangYou and they went by both that name and CYou. Their symbol on the Nasdaq stock exchange was CYOU. I say was, because it appears they are in the midst of
going private. They had a very profitable last quarter,
$135 million in revenue for the quarter. I have not seen what price they got for selling the extension, but since they were publicly traded at the time, it must be within some documents filed with the securities commission.
So with the rebrand they clearly are pushing cyou as (among other things) the positive message of change you. That term is trademarked in a surprising number of different applications, with 117 live TESS records. Even though .cyou seems an unusual TLD to domainers, we should not discount the possibility of interest from the change movement.
And in other news... thanks for the list
@NickB, and as a result of your list I have, for the first time in 2020, registered another .icu, this one Sicily. I think I
broke at least a few of my pieces of advice with this hand registration
. But, well, I always wanted to own an island, and now I do!
(ok truth be told I have in other TLDs had a couple of islands). So should you not see me around NamePros for awhile, you will know I am off to check out my Mediterranean island in person!
A number of the other ones on list were registry premium, but several really nice ones Wales, Scotland, Tibet lowest tier premium - price on those wholesale is less than $10 so if shop registrars can get them not much different than a .com registration, and all .icu renew at standard fee. I left them for someone else. Anyway, thanks, seriously, for the list. I am happy with Sicily.
Bob