Rightside

Rightside Registry recently launched a marketplace on Name.Market to browse its registry-controlled new gTLD domain names. Konstantinos from OnlineDomain.com previously wrote about the marketplace, and I received more information about it from Matt Overman, who is Rightside’s Vice President of Sales and Premium Domains.

The domain names listed for sale on the marketplace are all TLDs owned by Rightside  Registry. With the launch of this site, Name.Market is utilizing Name.com  for fulfillment. However,  Matt said that in the future, the ability to kick over to other registrar sites for fulfillment will also be incorporated. All of the premium inventory shown at Name.market is available at any of the more than 60 registrars that support Rightside Registry premium domain names

A handful of the  38  extensions that are currently offered  in the marketplace include the following extensions:

The .News domain extension has been available for people to hand register for just two weeks, and it is already selling more in that time period than other Rightside domain extensions in the same period of time. I was told that 8,790 .News domain names were registered on its first day of general availability.

This afternoon, the company announced that over 15,000 .News domain names have been registered so far in the first two weeks of general availability.

With over 15k registrations .NEWS is our most successful web address 2 weeks into general availability http://t.co/FbtH2HmL1W

— Rightside (@rightside) July 30, 2015

The tweet was a bit confusing at first