5 New gTLD went into their first day of general availability yesterday and combined the 5 new extension have a total of less than 2,500 registrations.
After the first day of general availability, including any Sunrise registrations and registrations taken in the Early Access Program here are the totals:
.Exchange 1,252
.Capital 909
.Moda 724
.Gripe 212
.Engineering 142
All stats are furnished by ntldstats.com, except for .Capital which RegistrarStats.com had totals for but ntldstats.com did not.
With only 142 registrations ..Engineering marks the worse performance for a Donuts owned extension. It looks like only about 50 registrations were made during the first day of availability.
Whenever numbers seem out of whack, I question the data. Did you download the .grip and .engineering zone files yourself to see if your stat sources are accurate here?
.engineering would have a much better start had they priced their extension a lot more cheaply. I am surprised that registrars and owners of these extensions still think that people and businesses will pay 10 to 50 times more (for a new TLD) than what they would pay for a dot com new registration. Sharpen up your act soon or else you will see that these numbers drop lower and lower over the next few years.
A terrific domain extension that will see the light of day in a couple of months or so is .life. I predict it to be the new TLD of the year if it prices each domain name at less than $10 a piece.
Another awesome domain that is almost guaranteed to be registered over 100,000 times in a year is .news. Sadly, this domain extension comes out only in the last quarter of 2015. Long time still for that one.
.services should do well if they get down their pricing. And domain names like .club, .guru, .expert, .email, and a few more already available extensions will see loads of them (that are registered) being dumped when the times comes to renew them.
Andrew
I use ntldstats.com numbers just to be consistent, i think I either have to use their stats or pull the zone files everyday, I can’t mix and match.
I did pull the .gripe zone file and saw a little over 300 domains so although ntldstats.com was a little short still a horrible result and the worst for a Donuts extension so far.
I think they had about 200 in Sunrise/EAP so 100 on the first day of GA, this is not going to be the next .guru
ntldstats consistently has problems with its numbers. In this case it appears they just hadn’t updated with the zone files for the day yet.
My access on both .gripe and .engineering is expired, but namestat shows higher numbers (including 800+ on engineering)
Well the numbers will work themselves out in a few days, basically anyway you slice it nothing tremendous here from yesterday’s launch