The monthly ICANN Registry reports are now live for December and it shows that ICM registry the owners of the .XXX extension registered 106,549 domain names in its first month of operation.
This 106,549 does NOT include those domain names registered by trademark holders under the “block” program (Sunrise B).
I reached out to ICM yesterday once the report came out for some more recent numbers.
ICM told me as of yesterday, April 3rd, there are currently 132,859 paid .XXX (normal) registrations not including the TM blocks.
Including Trademark Holders that registered a .XXX domain under the 10 year block program; plus domain names ICM reserved for future sales or use, ICANN ordered reserved domains and domains of celebrities and sensitive issue domains which are permanently reserved by the registry, there are 215,835 .XXX domains under ICM’s management.
Not surprisingly, the largest registrar in the world Godaddy.com led the way in terms of normal .XXX registrations in December (NOT including Blocks).
More surprisingly is that NetworkSolutions.com had the 2nd highest number of registrations by far.
Here is a break down of which registrars got the registrations for .XXX in December:
| registrar-name | total-domains |
| Totals | 106549 |
| GoDaddy.com, Inc. | 24850 |
| Network Solutions, LLC | 14045 |
| Instra Corporation Pty Ltd. | 3873 |
| eNom, Inc. | 3659 |
| united-domains AG | 3558 |
| Ascio Technologies, Inc. – Denmark | 3186 |
| Tucows.com Co. | 3018 |
| CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. | 2966 |
| Melbourne IT, Ltd | 2726 |
| Directi Internet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com | 2568 |
| Wild West Domains, Inc | 2474 |
| MarkMonitor Inc. | 2303 |
| Key-Systems GmbH | 2095 |
| Mesh Digital Limited | 1993 |
| Register.com, Inc. | 1953 |
| Blue Razor Domains, Inc. | 1808 |
| Go China Domains Inc | 1765 |
| Go Montenegro Domains, Inc. | 1743 |
| Go France Domains, Inc. | 1728 |
| Go Australia Domains, Inc. | 1708 |
| Go Canada Domains, Inc. | 1672 |
| Moniker Online Services LLC | 1642 |
| Name.com LLC | 1545 |
| 101domain, Inc. | 1339 |
| PSI-USA, Inc. dba Domain Robot | 1127 |
| Namescout Corp. | 904 |
| Register.it SPA | 903 |
| Gandi SAS | 891 |
| Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE | 863 |
| DirectNIC, LTD | 819 |
| OVH sas | 622 |
| Mailclub SAS | 606 |
| GMO Internet, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com | 594 |
| Aust Domains International Pty Ltd dba Aust Domains, Inc. | 585 |
| Domain.com, LLC | 579 |
| 1API GmbH | 503 |
| Webnames.ca Inc. | 458 |
| EuroDNS S.A. | 457 |
| CORE Internet Council of Registrars | 427 |
| Networking4all B.V. | 394 |
| Dinahosting s.l. | 354 |
| Soluciones Corporativas IP, SLU | 321 |
| Marcaria.com International, Inc. | 318 |
| EPAG Domainservices GmbH | 311 |
| YesNIC Co., Ltd. | 293 |
| SafeNames Ltd. | 290 |
| Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER | 286 |
| IP Mirror Pte Ltd dba IP MIRROR | 265 |
| Net 4 India Ltd. | 235 |
| Dynadot, LLC | 218 |
| Homestead Limited dba Namevault.com | 207 |
| Entorno Digital, S.A. | 202 |
| Easyspace LTD | 201 |
| Domaininfo AB, aka domaininfo.com | 190 |
| Gabia, Inc. | 184 |
| Namebay SAM | 182 |
| AB NameISP | 173 |
| Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc | 168 |
| Register NV dba Register.eu | 160 |
| Lexsynergy Limited | 148 |
| EnCirca, Inc. | 127 |
| Larsen Data ApS | 84 |
| 10dencehispahard, S.L. | 82 |
| NetTuner Corp. dba Webmasters.com | 80 |
| Dattatec.com de Irazoqui Veronica Palmira | 73 |
| InterNetworX Ltd. & Co. KG | 71 |
| Realtime Register B.V. | 59 |
| CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH d/b/a joker.com | 54 |
| Nordnet | 50 |
| iRegistry.com Corp | 33 |
| Online SAS | 30 |
| NETIM SARL | 28 |
| Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd. | 28 |
| NameWeb BVBA | 23 |
| Domain The Net Technologies Ltd. | 18 |
| Variomedia AG dba puredomain.com | 17 |
| CPS-Datensysteme GmbH | 12 |
| 2030138 Ontario Inc. dba NamesBeyond.com and dba GoodLuckDomain.com | 11 |
| Net-Chinese Co., Ltd. | 10 |
| 007Names, Inc. | 4 |
My observations:
They grouped together the blocked domains with other stuff so as to obfuscate the fact that the registry is almost 50% blocks which just doesn’t look good IMHO. Also network solutions is number 2 because real companies use network solutions (the big corporate types) and they are the ones that bought all the blocks. Either way ICM probably made a lot of money so congrats for them.
Did I miss Domain Monster on this list, or did they not sell any?
“Also network solutions is number 2 because real companies use network solutions (the big corporate types) and they are the ones that bought all the blocks.”
I would expect Markmonitor and CSC names to primarily be blocks.
WoW… think of all the money 007names musta made offa this.
Mike, it’s not very interesting. The February or March statistic would be much more interesting. .XXX has all but vanished from internet marketing. It’s becoming a very nice new TLD ploy, 3 months of bruh ha ha, make a lot of money, then into obscurity. Nice formula. .CO you still see plastered everywhere. They have followed through with their promises. The credibility has been build. There will be a lot of “chump” TLDs in the future. The top of the line in every new extension has worth, but beyond that, caveat emptor.
It’ll be interesting to see how this all develops in the next months, especially when the first renewals come up towards the end of the year, respectively when the auto-renew grace period is over. Launch Date + 45 days.
DomainMonster is Mesh Digital
Hey guys thought I was pretty clear in the post
NONE of these registrations are blocks they are normal registrations, they maybe defensive but they are not the 10 year blocks
Sem
I can’t control the info
The ICANN report that just came out is for December
As the reports progress so will the reporting
Looks like another “Pump n Dump” extension.
Had it come out in 2000-2001 it might have been a success, but adult sites are a bit
saturated at this point.
We can only hope that facebook.xxx helps to drive better recognition with the public. I’m getting OK direct type-ins with some of ours and one site is doing OK. But, this extension is still very much unknown by the public. Or, if they did know, they’ve forgotten. So, the point above about the lack of marketing is true and disturbing and I hope this changes.
Facebook.xxx? Is this a joke?
Yawn. Still don’t get why anyone would want to pay a premium to register one only to be labelled a pornmeister. No resale value, kids embarrassed at school, massive leakage, easily blocked.
Stick with .com. Nothing to see here, folks.
Same can be said of the new gtld’s: total waste of time. Recipe for disaster and financial ruin.