19,000 .wales registered

[martin-s]

More than 19,000 people have signed up for .cymru and .wales domain names in the 12 months since they were launched.

http://digimocracy.co.uk/uk-news/wales-news/more-than-19000-get-wales-domain-name/

"More than" or "Only" ??

 

[monaghan]

Good value then

Anyone done the maths to see how much they've spent on the project and how much these domains will have generated?

 

[martin-s]

£7.50 a pop = £140k ish

Not sure if the figures include .cymru

 

[UncleBob]

£7.50 a pop = £140k ish

Not sure if the figures include .cymru

I am curious myself - are .wales and .cymru paired a la .co.uk and .uk, or did they start and continue as entirely separate?

separate makes sense from a language perspective, but does anyone know?

 

[martin-s]

Entirely separate

 

[UncleBob]

Entirely separate

makes sense from a language perspective, but i wonder if pairing would have given any sort of boost?

 

[spiderspider]

Is that 19,000 people have registered wales domains

or

19,000 wales domains have been registered?

If the later, would be interesting to know how many people that actually is, and if the former, how many domains that actually is.

 

[Edwin]

Detailed stats for .wales and .cymru (click through each extension for even more info)
https://ntldstats.com/backend/Nominet-UK

 

[spiderspider]

Detailed stats for .wales and .cymru (click through each extension for even more info)
https://ntldstats.com/backend/Nominet-UK

Thanks

So not 19K domains just yet, by the stats on that link. And it would domains, not people.

 

[humble pie]

Are people still thick enough to buy these?

Nice to see over 1% up for deletion so early on.

 

[Edwin]

65% of them are parked, according to the ntldstats.com figures. So that's barely a few thousand "live" sites.

 

[martin-s]

We're going to develop the few (6 I think) we have.

 

[noonoo1]

We're going to develop the few (6 I think) we have.

Good stuff!

 

[RobM]

Don't worry - I'm sure it can be propped up by kicking the cash cow a little bit more.

 

[namealot]

Of the live ones I wonder how many make more than 10k a year from whatever is on them ?

 

[noonoo1]

http://mobility.wales was apparently making the odd sale according to its registrant but now appears to have gone offline.

Thanks for the heads up, will sort out my hosting issues!

 

[noonoo1]

Ok, ion cube, loaded all ok now

 

[rawkinrich]

Is there a way to backorder .wales?

 

[noonoo1]

Is there a way to backorder .wales?

I've been searching but haven't found anywhere yet. I've been looking for drop lists as well but to no avail.

 

[martin-s]

Total Web Solutions had backordering during the sunrise, as did Netistrar.