.XYZ has become the first new gTLD to break the 500,000 registration mark.
According to ntldstats.com has 501,459 domain registrations.
A little of 377,000 of these registrations are from Network Solutions which as we at TheDomains.com discovered early on, are free registrations.
Onamae.com a Japanese registrar owned by GMO has over 55,000 of the registrations.
Xin Net Technology Corporation a Chinese registrar has the third most .XYZ domain registrations at just over 26,500.
It should be noted that XIN has only been selling .XYZ for the last few weeks.
Godaddy.com is the only other registrar to have sold 10,000 or more .XYZ domain names, or more exactly 12,347 domain names.
There are now over 2.2 million new gTLD domain name registrations overall.
Including .XYZ, there are now 3 new gTLD registries with 100,000 or more registrations.
5 have more than 50,000 registrations.
17 have 25,000 or more registrations.
41 new gTLD’s have 10,000 or more registrations
86 new gTLD’s have 5,000 or more registrations.
I wonder if ZoneStuffing.xyz is available 🙂
The Onamae.com and Xin Net Technology Corporation are quite suspicious.
I don’t think that .xyz only had a deal with 1 registrar.
They want to reach 1 million registrations and they will do it even if that means losing a few million $ on the way. It’s quite sad actually.
And they were running a Tucows Domains Inc. promotion with $5 per domain but that didn’t work out that well. Tucows Domains Inc. (OpenSRS / Hover) have 1,328 domains in total.
The only reason “Onamae” and “Xin Net Technology Corporation” are doing good at selling this .xyz crap is because Onamae sells .xyz domains for $1.67 a pop, and Xinnet is selling them for $1.91 USD a pop.
Domains under $2 equals more sales (even though those 2 registrars are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process).
Instead of “even though those 2 registrars are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process” I shoudl have said the “.XYZ registry is losing hundres of thousands of dollars in the process”. I would find it highly unlikely that any of the registrars that are (or were) offering .xyz at a 80%-100% discount didn’t create a lucrative deal with the .xyz registry beforehand.
At least the zone manage to record three after market sales:
Best way to get a real count is to take the godaddy total and multiply by 3, godaddy’s typical market share (around 33%), that gives them an undoctored count of around 36,000.
If you take out .xyz then the go daddy new gtld market share is at about 20%.
But there are some regional registrar quirks to take into account so the go daddy market share might be higher than 20%. Not sure if it can reach 33%…
So 60,000 might be the right number.
But Go Daddy is promoting .xyz so this might not be the right registrar to work with.
So the true number could be lower…
Who knows anymore with .xyz.
At this point, .XYZ has strong negative connotations.
Building a website on .XYZ from this point forward is rather like announcing one’s own cheapness and/or gullibility.
With these .XYZ giveaways, spammers and scammers can scoop up massive numbers of .XYZ domains and use them as throwaway bait. Then .XYZ may end up with the same associations as .TK, which was given away for free and used by the bottom feeders.
I feel genuine pity for those people who bought into .XYZ early on or (worse yet) have built websites on this last-of-the-alphabet quicksand.
There’s a far more serious issue for .XYZ ahead. Paying customers may question whether they should renew if they see that many registrants never had to pay for their .XYZ domain name. The .TK comparison may not be fair though. At least people, whatever their reasons, went and registered their .TK domain. The majority of .XYZ “registrants” did not.
I was referring mainly to Bram C.’s statement that “Xinnet is selling them for $1.91 USD a pop”.
That ought to make .XYZ ideal for spam.
If you exclude 100% of Netsol portion of 377,000, the reg number is 124,459. No need to exclude other non-optout regs. Their 1.9 dollar sale is still higher than Godaddy’s 0.99 dollar coupon sale.
Godaddy doesn’t have a $0.99 .XYZ coupon sale as far as I know. The .XYZ extension is priced at $14.99 at Godaddy.
If you are referring about the $0.99 .COM coupons at Godaddy then keep in mind that there are not so much $0.99 .com godaddy coupons out there (and they are usually geo-limited to USA only) and more importantly those rare 0.99 godaddy coupons are each limited to 1 domain only. The “Onamae” and “Xin Net Technology Corporation” registrars on the other hand are offering UNLIMITED .xyz domains with a price tag under 2 bucks a pop. No coupon needed whatsoever.
So of course the .xyz numbers will be boosted with those cheap registrations. What do you think will happen if Godaddy would suddenly offer UNLIMITED .COM registrations at $1.9 per .COM domain?
Interesting, I’d like to know how much of those 2.2 million domain names are… No 1. legit, no 2. Purchased by public interests, 3. Purchased by domain name squatters and No 4… how many registrations would be left if disregarding those who registered say 10 or more domain names.
That would be really powerful information for me… however, in terms of common sense… I still think these names are a gold mine… just wait until you see the first advert on TV showing their trendy .whatever.. and the rest will follow very quickly. All it takes is for industry to take interest and it will be a frenzy.
What determines whether a registrations is “legit”? The bulk of .XYZ registrations are technically legitimate but they are opt-out registrations for which the registrants neither asked or paid. Then there are thousands of domain names that have been “reserved” by registry affiliated companies and these supposedly premium domains never reached public availability. Cybersquatting (rather than the somewhat nebulous domain squatting) still happens in the new gTLDs as it does in other TLDs. Because there are hundreds of new gTLDs, focusing on the 2.2 million registered domain names is a mistake. It is possible for a registrant of ten or more domain names to have registrations in multiple gTLDs rather than ten in one.
The big problem for the new gTLDs is that there is very little interest and what small bursts occur around the time a new gTLD goes into General Availability (opens to the public) quickly dissipates.
I can’t do it for all 2.2m but if you pick one New gTLD that you think is representative then I will be happy to do it.
Web usage trends tend to be very good guides as to the health, or otherwise, of a TLD.
These are the June 2014 web usage survey results for .XYZ
http://www.hosterstats.com/xyz-website-usage-survey.php
The 90.27% PPC figure shows a very problematic gTLD as much of this is down to the opt-out robo-registrations on Network Solutions.
These are the .CLUB survey results:
http://www.hosterstats.com/club-website-usage-survey.php
They are somewhat better than the .XYZ results but development is still low as it is a newly launched gTLD. One trend that is apparent in newly launched TLDs is the complexity of its redirects. Many new gTLDs will be redirected to the registrant’s primary brand website in other TLDs.
The other aspect that can provide an indication of the health of a new gTLD is the daily registrations figure. The more popular ones have an average daily registration figure over 99 domains. Unfortunately only 15 new gTLDs have a daily increase of over 99 domains and some of those are in the first day or so of their General Availability. Apart from the robo-registrations effect in .XYZ, thee daily changes can be quite useful as they begin to reflect trends over a week with the weekend figures falling. The problem is that these trends should not be happening until at least six months after the General Availability. The whole Land Rush phase (General Availability+6M) is being compressed into a few days or at best a few weeks. If you are expecting a .EU/.MOBI/.CO style burst of registrations you will be sorely disappointed. As things stand, most of these new gTLDs could take five years or more to build up a substantial (>500K registrations) registrations. The first renewals figures are going to be quite brutal and it is possible that as the renewal date approaches some registries will consider cutting their registration fees or offering a two years for one scheme to their registrars.
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This may help
http://www.thedomains.com/2014/08/25/as-new-gtld-registrations-hit-2-million-domains-here-is-our-take-on-the-new-gs/