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New gTLD Domain Name Registrations Break 2 Million But There Are Lots Of Caveats & Asterisks

August 24, 2014 by Michael Berkens

According to nTLDstats.com the number of new gTLD registration broke through the 2 million mark today and sits at 2,011,549.

However there are plenty of caveats and asterisks to go around.

Its interesting to note that there are only 666,394 distinct registrants for the over 2 Million domain names, meaning that the average registrant owns over 3 new gTLD domain names.

cnnic.cn the registry of two IDN gTLD extensions registered and reserved over 55,000 of the 2 million domains just this week.  You can read about this  here and here.

We already know that there are some 375,000 .XYZ domain names that were given away for free by Network Solutions and that over  70,000 .Berlin domain names were given away for free.

Lets call it 450,000 free domains.

We also know that North Sound Domains which is affiliated with another new gTLD registry, Uniregistry,  registered over 43,000 new gTLD domains.

We also know that a company related to the registry that owns .Voting registered 10,200 of just over 10,400 .Voting domain names registered.

There are other registries that have registered small amounts of domain names in its own extension.

So out of the 2 million new gTLD domain registrations we are looking at at least  560,000 free and registry registered domains putting the “real” total, if you’re going to judge the New G’s against extensions like .com, which are all paid and owned registrations, back under 1.5 Million.

Moreover if you look at the top 40 registrants of new gTLD domain names, its not overly encouraging:

Domain Administrator, North Sound Names 43,163
Andre Schneider, DomCollect AG 42,107
DomainProfi GmbH 26,920
qinfeng li, conac 20,099
Chief Executive Officer, innotarget AG & Co. KG 9,915
?????????, ???????????????????????????????????? 8,535
????????? 7,978
??????, ???????????????????????????????????? 6,404
?????????, ??????????????????????????????????????? 6,325
?????????, ?????????????????????????????? 6,111
Domain Buyer, Innovation HQ, Inc 5,647
Premium Domains, regiodot GmbH & Co. KG 4,434
?????????, ?????????????????????????????????????????? 4,358
President President, Surecom Corporation NV 4,325
Giovanni Laporta, yoyo.email 4,195
Klemens Jaeger, Senat der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg 3,756
?????? 3,252
Chris Gillespie, NexGen Experience, LLC 2,898
??????, ?????????????????????????????? 2,774
Verisign Customer Service, Verisign, Inc 2,550
Nicole Campbell 2,470
Christopher Gatley 2,422
?????????, ????????????????????????????????????????????? 2,392
Mario Warnatsch, BFB BestMedia4Berlin GmbH 2,217
Domain Admin, IP Collective, LLC 2,193
Domain Administrator, PUNTO 2012 S.A.P.I. de C.V. 2,186
Domain Administrator, SNP Schlawien Partnerschaft 1,888
zhaoyunchi 1,887
Somsak Jinaphan, iDigitalAsset LLC (surface.tattoo) 1,852
Whois Whois Privacy Protection Service by VALUE-DOMAIN 1,719
zhang cheng bing 1,667
?????????, ???????????????????????????????????????????????? 1,625
Emil Pedick, ESP Enterprise LLC 1,601
Jingjing Tang, Beijing shenma clouds Network Technology Co., Ltd. 1,501
Osten Robert, Com-News 1,476
Randy Moseson, Bow Valley Moving Company 1,424
?????????, ???????????????????????? 1,341
YUJIAWANG, HANGZHOU AIMING NETWORK CO.,LTD 1,328
Thomas Lim, KHL Financial Insurance 1,302
malong 1,285

At Number one we see North Sound Domains which we chatted about above as being affiliated with a new gTLD registry, Uniregistry.

At number two and three of the top 40 new gTLD registrants there are the registrants of 70,000 free .Berlin Domains.

At number 4 is the office of government of China which registered over 20,000 IDN domains for use inside the country.

Verisign Customer Service is the registrant of 2,500 new gTLD domains.

PUNTO 2012 S.A.P.I. de C.V. another new gTLD registry registered over 2,000 domain

11 of the top 40 or 11 of the remaining top 36 and 5 out of the top 10 new gTLD registrants are only known by a series of question marks, whom seem to be all registrants of IDN new gTLD’s.

Why Registrants are known by just a series of question marks, well that is another question altogether (pun intended) but is not a good sign.

 

Filed Under: New gTLD's

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.

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Comments

  1. John McCormac says

    August 24, 2014 at 6:21 am

    It is getting harder and harder to convince people that there are benefits to registering or switching a new gTLD domain. The registry landgrabs are a major problem because they are killing a lot of development that would happen in a new TLD from people finding a good domain on which they could develop a website or service. A similar dynamic was evident in .EU ccTLD when the TLD was allowed to be overspeculated. Development flatlined and the ccTLD, which was meant to be a competitor to .COM in the EU countries, never recovered. Based on the daily trends, the growth velocity of some of these new gTLDs is slowing and the registries may find it difficult to reverse those trends.

  2. jose says

    August 24, 2014 at 8:48 am

    i can’t believe my name is not on the list

    • John McCormac says

      August 24, 2014 at 9:08 am

      No way, Jose. They left you out? 🙂

      Seriously though, some of the question marks are for non-English language characters in the WHOIS record and seem to substitutes for Chinese characters.

  3. Owen Frager says

    August 24, 2014 at 11:18 am

    Where’s your name Mike?

  4. Michael Berkens says

    August 24, 2014 at 11:34 am

    Owen

    I was #52 on list a few days ago, today with all the questions marks and IDN registrations..

    Today I’m 68 on the list right behind another domainer Ken Lawson.

    • Mike Schrobo says

      August 24, 2014 at 2:53 pm

      Mike, would you say your slowing down or speeding up your buying based in this info?

      Thanks. Cheers

  5. Michael Berkens says

    August 25, 2014 at 10:00 am

    Neither

    I’m still going to try to get highly brandable domains that have reasonable renewal fees


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