Uniregistry to release 10 million domains on October 4
Uniregistry plans to release millions of registry-reserved domain names, many at standard registration fee, two weeks from now.
The company, which has about 25 new gTLDs in its stable, will release 10 million currently reserved names on October 4, CEO Frank Schilling told DI.
The revelation follows news that the company has started allowing thousands of registry-owned domains to expire and return to the available pool.
About 200,000 domains originally registered to North Sound Names, a separate Schilling-controlled company, are being made available via regular channels.
Those domains were registered (rather than reserved) so that Uniregistry could throw up landing pages inviting potential buyers to make offers. After they drop, they will no longer resolve.
But Schilling said a further 9.8 million names will also hit the market next month.
“It’s just a much better time because we have greater distribution and we are less likely to see all our names taken at land rush by one or two commercial registrants,” he said.
“We are unblocking and deleting 10 million domain names and making them available for registration through more than 200 registrars,” he said.
“Almost all will be standard reg [fee],” he said, when asked about pricing. Others will carry premium fees.
A web site publishing lists of newly released names will go live in about a week, he said.
DNW has previously reported that Uniregistry plans to release names that were initially blocked due to ICANN’s name collisions mitigation plan.
Those lists (which are usually mostly junk) are already published by ICANN and can be found accompanying the Registry Agreement for the relevant TLD linked from this page. Here’s the 35,000-name .link collisions list (.csv) for example.
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