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dotFree reports 15,000 .free preregistrations

Kevin Murphy, November 3, 2010, 15:02:35 (UTC), Domain Registries

The dotFree Group, which intends to apply for the .free top-level domain, says it has taken almost 15,000 preregistrations in its first 48 hours.
Dominique Piatti, chief executive of the Czech-based company, tells me the domain count at the two-day mark was 14,831, preregistered by 2,787 users, an average of five domains each.
About 4,000 of those came in the first hour.
Considering that it’s not possible to preregister tens of thousands of “premium” strings – dotFree plans to auction those – that strikes me as a not-bad start.
As I discovered on Monday, the company has also banned the preregistration of any string ending in the number 4, presumably due to the “for.free” pun.
If dotFree’s .free ever gets approved – which is of course by no means certain – it would be at least 18 months from now before any of these preregistrations convert into actual usable domain names


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Comments (9)

  1. Charley says:

    When does the pre registration close ?

  2. Joe Riley says:

    What happens if multiple people pre-register? I grabbed a certain one, I told my friend about it, and he tried to grab it and the site said it was available. Concern?

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  4. marvcarino says:

    I preregistered 50 domains.

  5. i have pre-registered 70domain for use on Fake sites… U WHITE BITCHES ARE GONNA SUFFER… HAHAHAH!

  6. zenoven says:

    I have 50 ,haha~~

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