As someone who watches the numbers of domain name registrations across all TLD’s everyday I have to say .Com is rocking and seems to be getting stronger by the day.
Back on March 31, there were 113.2 Million .Com registered according to Verisign.
Today 5 1/2 months later .com has topped 114.4 Million registrations (14,408,441) with a net add of over 37,000 registrations yesterday and over 30K the day before according to RegistrarStats.com
It was just about a month ago that we reported that the number of .Com domain names topped 114 Million for the first time.
Meaning that in about a month the net add to .com is over 400,000 domains which is of course more than all new gTLD registrations, combined in the same time frame and since March 31st the net add is 1.2 Million domains.
The new gTLD’s is not stopping the growth of .Com as we sit today.
Today Verisign sent out a note with some other figures about .Com “based on an analysis of .com domain name registrations as of July 2014”:
“23 million times a day, a .com domain name availability check is successful
Over 95 percent of five-character .com combinations are available
More than 99 percent of six-character .com combinations are available
Even though there is an abundance of .com domain names available for registration, many experts recommend registering descriptive and keyword-rich names because they attract higher click-through rates on search engine results pages.
Did you know?
Nearly half of all .com domain names are made up exclusively of two or more frequently used English keywords
In the past year, 11.8 million new .com domain name registrations contained two or more English keywords”
.com’s growth isn’t what it used to be: http://www.hosterstats.com/com-growth.php
and new TLDs are catching up: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PJ6-Moup5yo/U8uffj8EUCI/AAAAAAAACJc/bsE8OtEVG-Q/s1600/Growth+old+versus+new+domain+names.png
“Over 95 percent of five-character .com combinations are available
More than 99 percent of six-character .com combinations are available”
Who would want a random meaningless 5 or 6 characters domain? Sure, fqzpx.com and patvrb.com are still available…
HosterStats reveals that in the last few months .Net has been sliding (fewer total registrations). .Info has been sliding for about three years now. Per HosterStats .COM registrations have grown from 110 million registrations Sept 2013 to 114 million in Sept 2014. .COM continues to be the king of TLDs but low-single digit percentage growth in .COM with almost no growth in legacy GTLDs may be an indication that domain names are viewed as not that important to the vast majority of companies which already have one.
likely most of the growth is speculation – fueled by all the new tlds – what do you think
reducing the price by 8x (to $1 firesale), did not increase the volume anywhere close to 8x
Have lots of LLL .com’s in stock? Don’t wait until the perfect buyer arrives. That all that I can say for now.
Paul Stahura says
reducing the price by 8x (to $1 firesale), did not increase the volume anywhere close to 8x
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Paul, what is the point of continually claiming something that you know isn’t true?
Long ago some savvy and seasoned domainers saw the launch of the ‘New GTLD CRAPpola’ as nothing but Good news for the domain industry in general but more specifically for the indisputable King the “DOT COM’…the Gold Standard… the ‘knee jerk reaction…’ the “Pavlovian response”…
Although raw registered domains don’t really reflect the health of any extension if you grab the above
numbers/ chart and pair it with the dnjournal.com’ 2014 sales report the picture is ‘ Butt naked’ clear… a BANNER year for Dot Com.
With more ‘domain’ awareness and assuming more every day folks are registering domains…Dot Com domains that is, in terms of the USA if all they see and hear in TV (the King of Media now and forever) Radio Advertising Old media Print is references to the King Dot Com..what do you expect them to register?
an unknown ‘strange unfamiliar sounding’ domain extension?
it doesn’t take a rocket scientist nor a marketing guru to figure that out.
In regards to the decline of the .Net… I think it was highly predictable, what it once was one of a handful alternatives to the Dot Com it has suddenly become/turn to be one of hundreds of alternatives and soon one of thousands… before someone pulls out the recent sale of mobile.net take a look at where this fantastic investment has ended = Sedo parking (yikes).
When you hear registrars and new gTLD peddlers touting and celebrating any new gTLD domain that hits the 100 k mark I think people should also take a look at this totally irrelevant numbers:
there is more than 15 million .net domains registered.
there is more than 10 Million .org registered
there is more than 5 Million .info domains registered
there is more than 2 Million .biz registered
Keep on drinking the Pink lemonade.