NominetUK have posted an interesting article giving some breakdown on the numbers involved in their historic release of 1.8 million .uk domain names.
Read More: First week of Right of Registration in numbers – Nominet
As of 08-07-2019, the end of the first week, there were 40,284 registrations. Probably far short of what Nominet were hoping for. But good news for the “ordinary registrant” as there are now tens of thousands of new domains available for first-come, first-served registrations.