Tag Archives: .melbourne

Thu 13th November 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
.Melbourne hits 2,775 registrations, .restaurant has plain initial day - .Melbourne wins the day, but not by much. The .Melbourne domain name launched Wednesday in Australia — Tuesday night in the United States — and had 2,775 domain names registered at the close of business on day one of general availability. That does not include landrush domain names that are still in contention. The zone file for .melbourne is a bit tricky, given that the domain launched close to midnight UTC. So these numbers are straight from the registry. Donuts ... read more ...
Wed 12th November 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
This week’s new TLDs: .Melbourne, .Restaurant and more - A big geo among this week’s new TLD releases. I’ve been a bit remiss about my weekly new TLD posts, perhaps because the past couple Mondays have been busy news days. That, and new TLD rollouts have slowed down to a trickle. But I’m not late this week, as all the TLD launches I can find are Wednesday releases. The biggest is .Melbourne (see picture of ribbon cutting below), which launched Wednesday local time in Australia (technically 23:00UTC on November 11). ... read more ...