AdAge.com just published a post covering today’s .NYC launch into general availability. Its just one of many publications that have covered New York City big day but a quote from the story caught my eye.
“In August a “landrush” period began, where businesses and residents had the opportunity to register for a .nyc domain while paying a higher fee. More than 100,000 people signed up during this period, which ended at the beginning of this month.”
The quote seems to have come from Jeff Neuman, VP-registry services at Neustar which is operating the .NYC extension on behalf of the City.
We know as of today there are over 6,400 registered domain names in the .NYC zone file.
If the “more than 100,000″ figure is correct there are a ton of landrush collision auctions on the horizon, which be a huge win for Snapnames.com as well which is conducting the auctions. Snapnames.com is owned by Web.com (WWWW).
We published a post the other day regarding the details of the .NYC landrush auctions, which you can read here.
If the city got more than 100,000 landrush applications there should be no reason the city won’t get somewhere in the high five figures or even six figures in domain registrations on day 1 of launch.
We will be reporting those numbers tomorrow .
