Back on March 19th we published an interview with Simon Cousins about the two extensions TLD Registry is rolling out the Chinese IDN for Online (.在线) as well as Dot Chinese Website (中文网)
Back then Simon told TheDomains.com that:
“I would say we have a greater than 50% chance of both of our strings being in the top 5 new gTLD’s in terms of domain name registrations at the end of landrush.”
Well it took a couple of days longer until the 1st day of general availability (GA) but Simon’s was right
Just 50 minutes into GA we got this note from the Registry
Dot Chinese Online (.在线) xn--3ds443g | 54,011
Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) xn--fiq228c5hs | 38,838
This of course not puts these two new gTLD into the top 5 it puts it Dot Chinese Online (.在线) into the 1st position passing .Guru and that is just within the 1st hour.
Congrats to the Registry
