Two Chinese IDN domain names have 50,000 registrations after first partial day of general availability.

The Chinese IDN domain .在线 and .中文网 become one of the newest top level domain recently. The Chinese IDN new TLD .在线, which means “online” in Chinese, had 54,011 33,012 domain names under management as of this afternoon, according to TLD Registry. The domain name launched this morning at 9am EDT , Dot (.中文网), means Chinese Website, also launched by TLD Registry on April 28th , had 38,838 17,537 registrations. That places it comfortably in the top 10. 

TLD Registry struck a deal with the Chinese government to buy about 20,000 domain names across the two TLDs, which ensured it would come out of the gate strong.