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The real (no EAP) general availability started yesterday for 7 new gTLDs offered by Donuts: .camera .equipment .estate .gallery .graphics .lighting .photography
.photography is leading the 7 New gTLDs with 10475 domain name registrations including sunrise and EAP registrations. Distant second is .gallery with a total of 3,303 domain name registrations.
Last week .guru had 12435 registrations at the same time.
Despite .photography just entered general availability it already ranks 2nd, behind .guru, among the 14 first Donus New gTLDs.
About 20,000 new gTLD domain names were registered in the first few hours of general availability yesterday.
This is the day that the pre-registrations kicked in and domains were available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Here are the results after the first few hours (11) of general availability:
(Registrations Yesterday -> Registrations Today)
| Week 2 | Sunrise | 11 hours into General Availability | 35 hours into GA | EAP – General Availability |
| .camera | 51 | 1382 | February 5th – February 12th | |
| .equipment | 124 | 2156 | February 5th – February 12th | |
| .estate | 52 | 2873 | February 5th – February 12th | |
| .gallery | 51 | 3303 | February 5th – February 12th | |
| .graphics | 57 | 1592 | February 5th – February 12th | |
| .lighting | 126 | 1646 | February 5th – February 12th | |
| .photography | 58 | 10475 | February 5th – February 12th | |
| Total: | 519 | 23427 |
(The zone file numbers are not exact or final. Domain names without nameservers don’t get listed in zone files.)
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I am surprised with photography, I am assuming it is more of a personal connection with the domain, rather than commercial. As many people are freelance, and hobbyist. I would have expected equipment to have a better showing.
From what I have seen most registrations are from freelance pro photographers.
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Zournas,
Take a vacation. You[re doing too much gTLD. Calm down pal.
It’s not that serious.
There is the weekend coming. 🙂
Awesome, enjoy the Valentines ..
.photography is quite the mouthful for a domain extension, and I’d think would get a lot of typos, though I could see it being used by local photo services companies or freelancers.
Its ok to have photography.net but not net.photography ???? This comment is in regards to length, not extension, cheers
Dot .photography is for ‘serious’, professional photographers AND less serious, ‘hobbyists’. But the best keywords were gone during the tiered landrush.
Keep in mind that photographers spend a fortune on gear, but they won’t spend a fortune on domains.
The above comments are very correct, they are very artistic, and will not pay up for generic domains, or secondary market domains, choosing to go with something more creative, or longer.
Yet a hobbyist will spend some cash on things like apps, that’s why i jumped in with apps.photography, good aftermarket for apps on itunes and the like
Lonely Planet owns the best one already: https://whois.domaintools.com/travel.photography
They could hardly be considered a “hobbyist.” Interesting.
It was cheap too.