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May, 2016 : More than 50K .cloud Domains Registered in Just 3 Months
📅 - In less than three months, about 50,000 .cloud domain names have been registered with growing interest. The .cloud domain is based in Arezzo, Italy and it only took 24 hours for the first 20,000 to be registered. This happed right after the General Availability phase began on February 16th, 2016.
The .cloud domain is one of the newest of the TLDs to be released, along with about 1,000 other extensions. Some of the organizations adopting the .cloud rather quickly include SpamExperts, Atomia and Ubantu. .
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