.Email is stilling just short of 12,000 registrations after its first full day of General Availability.
According to ntldstats.com .Email zoomed past .Company to become the 7th most registered new gTLD to date.
The 2nd most popular new gTLD released this week after the first day of registrations is .Solutions which got just short of 7,000 registrations.
There are now over 386,000 new gTLD registrations according to ntldstats.com and while the top 3 .Guru, .Berlin and Photography represent over 30% of all registrations, there are now 22 new gTLD with over 5,000 registrations.
It should also be noted that on the registrar front, Godaddy which originally held a 40% share of the new gTLD market has seen its share slip to just over 30% with the next three registrars combined matching Godaddy.com registration totals.
Another very interesting finding is out of all .email registrations to date Godaddy, is sitting in third position, with less than 10% of the registrations
Which is the best email: firstname@lastname.com or hello@firstname.email?
since 90% of the world uses gmail or hotmail i don’t see why .email is so popular. especially since the popularity of social media platforms have made email not near as important as it used to be.
@RU
Anyone who would say your second example is better, obviously has a stake in .Email’s success.
I use email@fullname.com, I also have my fullname@gmail.com to match.
I’m with Cmac on this one.
@RU I don’t think the majority of users would have vanity email addresses or think of getting one, unless registration was cheap and for the lifetime of the domain and the actual provision of the email service was simpler to switch without losing your email if you weren’t satisfied with the provider.
Especially as @Cmac points out, most are happy if they get something close to their real name with one of the major email providers and really only use it to sign into other online services which make email communication almost redundant.
If email is to survive it needs innovation in the traditional user interface where multiple inboxes and 100s of unread mail items become easier to manage and navigate.
Ironically, just under this comments box are tick boxes for email notifications that will probably be lost and ignored should it ever get through. I think the market is there for a player who can make a more intelligent and beautiful interface for email and spark a revival in its usage.
the email addresses are going to look at little FUNKY…
BobSmith@acme.email
DrBenDover@surgeon.email
Not sure how or who will change people habits of addressing in the current ways…
very lucky the owner of email Dot Com….me thinks:)
the email contact addresses for those websites are going to read rather FUNKY:
JohnSmith AT ACME DOT Email
The owners of email Dot Com are going to get a ton of lost emails…
People are not going to change their nearly religious habits of 20 years…