.au passes four million names as 2LDs surge
Australia’s .au domains has surpassed four million registered names for the first time, boosted by second-level regs.
The milestone appears to have been hit in the last 24 hours, with the total count at 4,001,440 right now, according to the registry’s web site.
The ccTLD has added just shy of 300,000 registrations in the last month. On August 28, it had just over 3.7 million domains.
While auDA does not break down third-level versus second-level domains, the spike no doubt was caused by last-minutes claims of 2LDs under the Priority Allocation Process.
About 240,000 of the names registered in the last month were registered before the September 20 cut-off date for .com.au registrants to buy their matching second-level .au names.
Unclaimed names will be released into the available pool at 2100 UTC October 3, next Monday, which could potentially lead to another surge.
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