new gtlds .News Gets At Least 45 Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP At $10K+

[News]

Looks like the new gTLD .News is going to be a big winner for Rightside (NAME).

The 1st day of the Early Access Program is about to close at 1pm EST today where people could get first shot at registering domain names at a wholesale cost of $10,000 per (retail price varies by registrar, plus any premium registration cost, if any).

As of the last zone file update we found 45 domain names that were registered yesterday July 8th, the 1st day of EAP.

Remember country domains are not allowed so Mexico.news for example is not possible.

General Availability for .news starts next Wednesday July 15th

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[FPForum]

Lots of money for them. But, considering how many different news organizations there are across the world, 45 sure seams small.

 

[daj]

It looks like nearly all of them are spanish news organizations...no one else finds the extension that valuable?

 

[vivaldi]

Sounds like fake to me. All on Name.com with privacy?

 

[JayJay]

Sounds like fake to me. All on Name.com with privacy?

not to mention some of those are avail in the .com

 

[baseballworld]

Wonder if the big networks will pick some up for there names like abc, cbs, nbc. 3 characters should sell well but probably a heavy tm risk also. Might be why the registration numbers are so low right now.