In a press release it issued today Donuts said it expected to win up operating around 200 new gTLD’s.
“”Donuts Inc., the world’s largest registry for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), marked the one-year anniversary of general availability of new Internet identities today, reporting that its 150 live gTLDs are home to more than 1.2 million registrations, accounting for nearly 1/3 of the 4 million total names registered across all new gTLDs.”
The company, which expects eventually to run approximately 200 gTLDs, said it currently operates eight of the top 25 and half of the top 50 new gTLDs by registration volume, including .GURU (80,584), .PHOTOGRAPHY (51,431), and .EMAIL (48,031).
Registrants are widely dispersed geographically:
United States customers 48%
Germany 12%
United Kingdom 11%.
Usage of new gTLDs has climbed steadily including a 52% increase in the number of new gTLD domain registrations ranked in the Alexa top one million most visited sites over the past quarter, according to CSC Digital Brand Services.
Brad D. Riggan of Liquid Media®, is quoted in the PR, an Oklahoma City-based multi-dimensional digital creative firm, who switched to the domain name Liquid.MEDIA because we wanted a domain name that represented the meaning of our company..This is a precise descriptor that tells our clients and potential clients what we do.”
Donuts recently launched .WORLD into general availability and tomorrow will make .ENERGY and .DELIVERY open to any registrant.
.COACH, .MEMORIAL, .LEGAL, .MONEY and .TIRES are now available exclusively to trademark holders and will open to all registrants later in March.
Analysts at investment bank B. Riley & Co. forecasted that new gTLD registrations could cross the 20 million mark by 2016.
Further demand will be addressed throughout 2015, when “contention sets”—gTLDs for which more than one registry applied, will be resolved.
These include .MUSIC, .SHOP, .ART and .APP, remaining contention sets that will likely be some of the most popular and well-used gTLDs.”
We assume the 200 Donuts operated new gTLD number is exclusive of the New gTLD’s that Rightside (NAME) will operate.
Donuts originally applied for 307 new gTLD’s string with 107 being owned in partnership with Rightside.
More new tld’s equals mlore lost traffic and lost emails, for the users of those new tld’s. For a while now I have been setting up “catch all” email on may of my domains and you would, or may ,be amazed by the volume of misdirected emails that I receive. I have seen a lot of interesting emails and wonder why these companies would insist on losing millions of US$ worth of business simply because they dont want to pay more than $20 for a domain ??. Anyway if they are that stupid then let them carry on.
So now that you have admitted to industrial espionage and provided grounds for any domain you may have being registered in “bad faith” what is your next glorious trick you plan to reveal?
@janedoe Lol ,I have not admitted to anything other than I use “catch all” email on some domains and noticed that I receive a lot of what I assume are misdirected emails. That is not my fault as I need catch all email for various reasons . Now if someone decides to later reg a new tld, such as say .co his customers then send emails to .com . That is not industrial espionage. I do not use any information that may be in the emails .
What I am pointing to is the fact that it is all very well allowing these new tld’s but I dont think the implications for users are fully thought through.
Doesn’t worry me one way or the other, but you may want to keep in mind how your statement reads.
Setting up a contact email address people can reach you via is limited, setting up a catch all can be easily viewed as an intent to harvest…opening and reading an email not intended for you is a breach of numerous privacy regulations which can get you into trouble on that action alone depending upon the jurisdiction you are in and their privacy laws pertaining to electronic communication.
It is dicey ground.
Let me put it this way, someone wants to set up a case of “Bad Faith”, all they need to do is to “accidentally” send a confidential memo which falls into your catch-all and upon opening it, they get a confirmation that it has been read.
Now this may not be enough to affect you, but it could certainly add to their case.
The point is admitting to reading confidential email as you have could readily bite you in the bum.