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TLD
Registry Ltd.,
the company that is introducing two
new Chinese language TLDs - .在线
(.online in Chinese) and .中文网
(.website in Chinese) - has
announced that general availability
for domains in those extensions will
open Monday, April 28 at
exactly 13:00 UTC (Greenwich
Mean Time) which would be 9am
U.S. Eastern time and 9pm in
China.
General
availability will follow the Land
Rush |
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phase
of the rollouts that ends Thursday
(April 24) at 03:55 UTC. That
is 11:55am Thursday in China
but will actually be tonight at
11:55pm in the U.S. Eastern Time
Zone. There will be a three-day
break between Land Rush and General
Availability so TLD Registy Ltd. can
analyze contended Land Rush
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TLD
Registry's CMO, Simon Cousins, told
me, "We
have booked $584,000 in
premium domain name sales since our
first day of Land Rush, March 20th. Our
hybrid live-online auction raised $182,000
and another $402,000 has been
privately negotiated in the last three
weeks. You'll
be seeing fully developed premium
domain name sites going live in only
a couple of weeks. We're looking forward
to congratulating the first premium site
to go live."
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Cousins
added, "Our strategic
partnership agreement with .CLUB is
working out great for both parties.
The .CLUB machine is giving us
strong support in English speaking
territories and we're reciprocating
in Chinese speaking parts of the
world. We are expanding our
strategic partnerships
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agreements
in the final stages of negotiation
with a very complimentary Chinese
registry, and another with a
complimentary western registry." |
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