The number of domain names registered under the Top Level Domain of .Biz has fallen under 2.5 Million.
The extension owned and operated by Neustar (NSR) seems to have been effected by the new gTLD’s.
As you can see from the chart .Biz was slowing growing until early this year when the new gTLD’s started to launch and now is moving the downward direction:
.XYZ has topped 650,000 registrations.
.Berlin in the last week past the TLD’s .Tel and .Name with over 151,000 registrations (with about 75,000 being given away for free)
.Club has broken through the 125,000 domain mark passing .Pro and .XXX.
@Berkens,
This report is full of fallacies.
1. With registrations near 2.5 million, is not the surprise that dotBiz is even that high? Shouldn’t you be amazed that dotBiz retains such high registration numbers? That it’s fallen under 2.5 million cannot be the headline given the performance of recent and current gtld launches.
2. You cannot draw the conclusion that the “drop” in dotBiz numbers without revealing the Abstract, Introduction, Background, data, Methodology, and Analysis of your study; particularly highlighting zone files, whois, DNS probing, web crawl results, and content classification of the dotBiz names; were the dropped names primary, defensive, or parked? This data is crucial to making any careless assumptions, as you tend to have done here, Berkens.
At the onset, when ICANN was considering the introduction of the new gTLD scheme, they commissioned several reports analyzing the economic consequences of their initiative, among other concerns, one of the dangers presented to ICANN was the menace of trademark holders registering their names in every single new gtld; so I direct your attention to the 2009 Carlton Report, that argued that this was not a problem at all, that registration by companies in various TLDs was not for defensive purposes alone, but in fact brought in traffic for these companiesies, and not merely to prevent “cybersquatting”; I also urge you to take a look at a second report: The 2010 Katz, Rosston, Sullivan report, which concluded that other TLDs does not provide competition for dotCOM. Other reports find that dotBiz registrations overlap dotCOM about 35% of the time; 90% of dotBiz registrations also occur in dotCOM; therefore, it is likely that the drop in dotBIZ is actually due to dotCOM, and not the new gTLDs. If the dotBiz registrants find no benefit in traffic, or need for defensive registrations, as I cited above, they will more than likely drop the dotBiz names.
3. You will have to wait at least till the 1st anniversary of some of these new gTLDs to compare them to dotBiz which has gone through the cycle several times; I’m sure you’ll agree with me that some of these registries will experience some drops at those anniversaries; how much would drop? You have no clue.
I never ever leave comments. @domainclaw or whatever your name is, you seem to have issues with articles on TheDomains and all other major blogs where they point scientifically and statistically to success of gtlds.
The interesting thing is that, you are reading these articles and “go off” at the blog owner for being or using “skewed” numbers. You sound armature and childish. I read TheDomains all the times and it s a surprise to me this blog like others hasn’t blocked you. I am genuinely impressed by TheDomains even giving you the time of day to respond to your amateurish posts.
Domen
The “report” notes that .biz has fallen user 2.5 million registrations and after a steady rise for many years it suddenly took a downturn in the beginning of 2014.
New gTLD’s started going live in February
Now if you want to study that issue, which is all the post (report) was involved for years hiring a team of experts and analysts then you should either go work for the government or for ICANN
Guess what else happened in Feb: Seattle Seahawks Win First Super Bowl in Franchise History (Feb. 2): The Seattle Seahawks beat the Denver Broncos, 43–8, to win their first Super Bowl championship in franchise history…
So, you can that caused the dotBiz drop, according to your logic.
Thats what i call a fallacy argument, or using bad example to refute good one.
Michael made a good point, and there is causation and connection. You try to derail it. Domenclature not sure why you even visit this blog since i never seen you not arguing with Michael, even when he just posts something very normal. If .net CEO admitted that they are experiencing slow down and attributed it to gtld expansion, .biz would be an even more obvious target for a drop.
Very well Motion, I will await Berkens to admonish you for suggesting curtailment of my first amendment rights with the comment policy of this discussion forum, if it is not done to my satisfaction, I will boycott the blog starting immediately, and then Berkens can write whatever he pleases.
in the end they are all just non-used non-dot-coms
guys –
sorry guys – domo clearly spent some time with his comment – and with good reason.
The end result is it is all bullshit until after the 1st anniversary of renewals which he states and with that I am reminded of when I woke up one day and eNom had “given” me about 10,000 free dot info’s matching my dot coms- which I promptly had them delete them immediately – and that was not even the first year of dot info I do not think.
It is comical – so many wankers waiting for the second coming – where somehow their jesus is better than 2,000 others
Brian
As far as new gTLD’s go I have already stated in blog posts of my own that we won’t know anything until the 1st renewal period is over.
But the cutting into other existing TLD’s by the new G’s is clearly happening now
yes – Michael – just spreading out the same amount of speculative dollars over countless more tlds
Domen
That would be the 5th boycott and the 10th DE-subscription I believe
So true, thanks for the laugh 🙂
Domen
By the way do you live in the US?