It looks like around 12,000 .XYZ domain names were registered in the first few hours into the $.01 .XYZ domain promotion.
According to ntldstats.com, Uniregistry had 41,299 .XYZ registrations as of yesterday’s z0ne report before the announcement which was made around 5PM EST.
According to the last zone update there were 53,381 .XYZ domain name registered at Uniregistry.
So basically the increase of .XYZ domain registrations at Uniregistry for a partial day was 12,000 domain name registrations.
Today will be the first full day of the Uniregistry $.01 .XYZ promotion.
Additionally I received other promotions starting today at other registrars for .XYZ at $.02 a domain.
Fpr the record, as of today there are 2,956,740 registered .XYZ domain names according to ntldstats.com
We will give you an update tomorrow.