.Guru has just become the first new gTLD to pass 50,000 registrations according to ntldstats.com
.Berlin is firmly in the number 2 spot and might pass .Guru shortly.
.Photography has passed 30,000 registrations and .Email has quickly jumped into 4th place with over 22,000 domains
.Tips rounds out the top 5
There are now 14 new gTLD’s that have 10,000 or more registrations.
Interesting to note that Uniregistry’s .Sexy which got off to a slow start has made it into the top 20.
There are now over 480,000 new gTLD domain names registered.
Here is the top 20:
| TLD | Domains | % Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | .guru | 50,039 | 10.39% |
| 2. | .berlin | 45,772 | 9.50% |
| 3. | .photography | 32,060 | 6.65% |
| 4. | 22,111 | 4.59% | |
| 5. | .tips | 19,784 | 4.11% |
| 6. | .today | 19,745 | 4.10% |
| 7. | .company | 14,587 | 3.03% |
| 8. | .technology | 13,322 | 2.77% |
| 9. | .directory | 12,287 | 2.55% |
| 10. | .center | 12,260 | 2.54% |
| 11. | .solutions | 10,834 | 2.25% |
| 12. | .land | 10,347 | 2.15% |
| 13. | .clothing | 10,283 | 2.13% |
| 14. | .bike | 10,168 | 2.11% |
| 15. | .gallery | 9,862 | 2.05% |
| 16. | .photos | 9,327 | 1.94% |
| 17. | .estate | 9,002 | 1.87% |
| 18. | .equipment | 7,095 | 1.47% |
| 19. | .sexy | 6,894 | 1.43% |
| 20. | .academy | 6,606 | 1.37% |
Not sure how significant that is…
since equates to .85 % ( point eight five per cent) of the Dot Info current number of registrations or less than ‘Uno’ %… a Rolling Tumbleweed which existences is unknown to end-users.
50,039 gurus
vs
5,840,000 (or so) Infos
Before I got into computers in the late ’70s, I was (and remain) serious about photography. I still have the Sinar 4×5 View Camera I bought back then and studied with Ansel Adams during the workshops he offered at Yosemite back then. So .Photography would seem like something I would naturally want to register my name under, but I have absolutely no inclination to do so. I already have my name under the .Com and see no reason to splinter off my ‘brand’, so to speak, into separate extensions. Especially extensions that might be ‘exciting’ to some at the moment, but may likely lose their sparkle as time goes by.
.Guru as well. I could use that for many aspects of the work I do, but to me it simply sends pretentious. Anyway, it’s interesting to follow the numbers, but it will be more interesting next year, and the year after that, to see if people hold onto these extensions or let them drop after the initial excitement (and high renewal rates for many of them) cause people to lose interest. I could be totally wrong, but I can easily see that happen.
These are pretty impressive numbers.
The real test comes in three to five years as to how many are actually built out.
On flippa.com, I am seeing all sorts of new extensions being offered for sale, but no actual blog or websites.