.XYZ Becomes 1st New gTLD To Pass 250,000 Registrations

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.XYZ has become the first new gTLD to pass 250,000 registrations.

The official count according to ntldstats.com, 250,731 domain names.

Of that amount 217, 752. are registered at Network Solutions representing over 86% of all registrations.

As we always note, the vast majority of these .XYZ registrations at Netsol are free and being pushed into customers account without the customers asking for the domains.

Disregarding all NetSol registrations .XYZ is still doing pretty well, with over 32,000 registrations which would put it into 7th place right around where .Link is but of course that registry has had registered five figures in domain names registered by a related company.

Overall there are now more than 1.4 million new gTLD’s registered.

.Berlin remains in 2nd place after its two day free domain giveaway at 136K registrations.

.Club remains in second place approaching 80K registrations growing at close to 500 domains a day.

.Guru also continues to grow nicely at should hit 65K registrations today or tomorrow.

.Photography is also adding a couple of hundred of registrations and should hit 40,000 this wee.

There are now 10 new gTLD’s with more than 25,000 registrations, passing legacy TLD’s like .travel, .coop and .Aero

28 new gTLD now have 10,000 registrations or more, 60 have 5,000 or more

16 new gTLD not including the three that launched yesterday had more than 100 registrations yesterday.

On the low side 51 fully launched new gTLD’s have less than 2,500 registrations and 17 have less than 1,000 registrations

 

 

 

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

  2. Joseph Peterson says

    .XYZ:

    Junk mail has enormous readership … if you count people who ignore and then throw away unwanted material as “readers”.

  3. KDomainNames says

    I’m not too keen on the .xyz because it’s too long for me to pronounce! If you say the domain out loud, then you’ll realise there are better extensions.

  5. John McCormac says

    The effect of the Netsol offer on website usage in .XYZ is as people would expect. Approximately 90.3% of .XYZ website are on PPC parking pages. There are some signs of life but they are being swamped by the high level of PPC. In terms of usage/signs of life, .XYZ is doing better than .LINK.