New gTLD’s By The Numbers: 1930 Apps, 751 Apps In Conflict; Max Number of New gTLD’s 1,409

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ICANN just published  some information about the new gTLD applications it received.

Here is the new gTLD by the numbers:

Number of Apps for a new gTLD: 1930

84 are designated as “community-based”.66 have designated themselves as geographic name applications.

116 applications are Internationalized Domain Names, or IDNs, using non-Latin scripts.

 

Applications were received from 60 countries:
911 applications came from North America.

675 from Europe.

303 applications are from the Asia-Pacific region.

24 are from Latin America and the Caribbean.

17 from Africa.

There are 230 domain names for which at least two applications were submitted, involving a total of 751 applications, meaning that the maximum number of new gTLDs in the 1st round is 1,409

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  1. FX says

    ICANN just took in $350m in non refundable cash.
    WTF are they going to do with all that cash and why does ICANN even need it ?

  2. Michael H. Berkens says

    FX

    Its not all non-refundable

    There are time frames all over the guidebook where applicants can pull there application all the way into the auction process and get a partial refund.

  3. GTLDville.com says

    Interesting to see what unfolds with the new GTLD’s. Not trying to cash in on the new dynamics here…but out of fun I snapped up GTLD.ws and GTLDcoupons.com. Why? I guess I was board..I was short about 85k for my app but we shall see what’s around the corner… Kev

  5. Lucas says

    I agree with FX, this is the first consecuence of the new gTLDs program: ICANN becomes rich. Specially if some auctions heat up… why? Because In the new domain paradigm ICANN plays the role of a domainer who happens to own, not many or most, but ALL domains!!

    Instead of a first come first served bases we are getting a “the one who pays most gets it” model.

    I just wonder what is going to happen when years down the road ICANN appears in the Fortune 500 largest companies?! An organization using its “non-profit” and “neutral” labels to outrank major companies by claiming to own the whole internet.

    They say that they run the program and use the money so that profits are zero… But I think they are going to have a hard time avoiding to become rich! lol

    the way I see it, just my opinion…

  6. Michael H. Berkens says

    Shortly

    You can watch the event live on ICANN.org

    Also follow us on twitter we are tweeting like crazy

    @thedomains