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Radix, one of the world’s largest portfolio registries, today announced that its flagship TLD, .ONLINE, has surpassed 1 million domains under management. As predicted by Radix at the launch of General Availability in August 2015, .ONLINE has hit this milestone around its 3rd anniversary. .ONLINE is one among the few nTLDs that have crossed the 1 million mark, which now makes it the 5th largest nTLD by zone size.

The journey of .ONLINE began back in November 2014 when a joint venture between industry players Radix, Tucows, and Namecheap won the rights to .ONLINE in a private auction. Owing to their confidence in the potential of .ONLINE, Radix pursued to buy out the full rights to this TLD from all parties.

The term"online” is one of the most popular keywords used in domain names worldwide. As of December 2017, close to 900K domain names registered in .COM, .NET, .ORG, .INFO, .US and .BIZ contained the term ‘online’. Of these, over 600K domain names ended in the word “online”. In the last one year alone, over 130K domain names have been registered on legacy TLDs ending in the word ‘online’.

Sandeep Ramchandani, CEO, RadixSpeaking of .ONLINE’s success and growth potential, Sandeep Ramchandani, CEO, Radix, said, “Our goal is to offer customers their ‘first choice name’ for their online identities. Businesses and consumers have long settled for long and less memorable domains on familiar, legacy strings such as .com. Given that the keyword ‘online’ has always been a popular domain name-ending, .ONLINE offers the global audience an opportunity to get their first-choice domain name without having to compromise. With only 1M .ONLINE names vs 135M .com names taken, there is ample availability for customers and tremendous growth for us to tap into.”

Over the course of its general availability, .ONLINE has gained acceptance from businesses across verticals. Aaron Agius, Founder-CEO of Louder.Online, says, “We are an SEO company and we moved from louderonline.com and louderonline.com.au to Louder.Online. Being a global company, it has definitely made sense to move to a .ONLINE domain, especially in terms of branding for an online marketing company.”

Based on an internal analysis by Radix, 65% of developed .ONLINE domains are in use by SMBs. Till date, .ONLINE has generated over $13M in revenue of which $1.5M has come from premium domains sold directly by the registry, and close to 90 premium .ONLINE domains have been sold organically in the aftermarket. To further expand .ONLINE’s footprint, Radix is presently working on a large-scale end-customer marketing campaign for the TLD; slated to launch in Q1 2019. Through the campaign, Radix aims to broaden awareness about .ONLINE by directly targeting active-intent users.

By Radix, Domain Names for the New Internet

Radix is one of the world’s leading new domain registries with 10 new extensions that include .ONLINE, .STORE, .TECH, .WEBSITE, .SPACE, .PRESS, .SITE, .HOST, .FUN and .UNO. Through these extensions, Radix is empowering business owners to get short, memorable and descriptive domain names that can be used for a website, email address, or a variety of other internet addressing purposes. For more details, visit http://www.radix.website.

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