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New gTLD .Science Tops 220K Registrations; Passes .Club; & Who Is AlpNames.com?

April 30, 2015 by Michael Berkens

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The new gTLD .Science has now blown by the 220K domain name registration mark hitting 223,159 according to ntldstats.com becoming the 2nd most registered new gTLD passing .club

It was just 11 days ago we wrote about .Science hitting the 120K domain registration mark and questioning the type of registrations the extension was getting.

.Science has picked up over 100,000 domain name registrations in those 11 days.

.Science is operated by Famous Four Media.

The domain name registrar AlpNames.com which initially gave away around 50,000 free .Science domain and has been selling .Science domain names for $.49 since, has over an 87% market share at the registrar level for .Science with almost 195,000 domains and .Science represents over 95% of all of AlpNames.com new gTLD registrations.

The second highest selling new gTLD for AlpNames.com is .trade (another FFM Registry extension) which has just 3,300 domain names.

Actually the only new gTLD domain name extensions that AlpNames.com has registered are Famous Four Media strings according to ntldstats.com (with the exception of 1 .space):

new gTLD Domains % Share
1. GA .science 194,254 95.59 %
2. GA .trade 3,301 1.62 %
3. GA .webcam 2,846 1.40 %
4. GA .party 2,800 1.38 %
5. GA .bid 11 0.01 %
6. GA .events 10 0.00 %
7. GA .space 1 0.00 %
8. GA .cricket 1 0.00 %

AlpNames.com address as listed on its site is in Gibraltar.

Famous Four Media is also headquartered in Gibraltar.

The domain name AlpNames.com is registered at Godaddy under privacy since 2013.

We reached out to Alpnames.com for comment on its connection to Famous Four Media and we received this response from Borut Bezjak of AlpNames Limited:

“”In answer to your questions, I can confirm that AlpNames is a specialist registrar, based in Gibraltar, focusing on the nTLDs. We are delighted with the growth in our client base which has proven the success of our outreach projects especially in light of the slow general take up achieved from other registrars. The details of which are of course proprietary but we anticipate further growth going forward.

We have a strong relationship with Famous Four Media, as you have identified. This has been helped by our geographic proximity, the strength of their TLDs and their incentive programmes. As you will notice from our website www.alpnames.com we offer a wide range of products across the nTLD landscape.””

 

 

 

Filed Under: Famous Four, 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. Klark K says

    April 30, 2015 at 9:59 am

    I heard that .GTLDSSUCK broke 250K registrations and .WHOGIVESADAMN recently cracked a million.

    Personally, I think the $0.49 price is way too high. They would need to pay me.

    Gtlds are for those determined to fail in their online venture. Plain and simple.

  2. Together TV says

    April 30, 2015 at 10:01 am

    Quite the business plan.

  3. Seb says

    April 30, 2015 at 10:15 am

    .SCIENCE, Famous Four Media and Alpnames are all an embarrassment for the whole new gtlds program

    • yyzlinyul says

      April 30, 2015 at 10:20 am

      why, may i ask ?

      • Seb says

        April 30, 2015 at 12:05 pm

        .SCIENCE is a niche gtld, it simply can’t have 200K registration.
        These are a mix of free, fake, and spammers registrations that will all expire next year.
        Just take a look at Michael’s previous post to see the kind of domains registered and you will understand.

        Without pumping this gtld, it would have about 3,000 real registrations.

  4. yyzlinyul says

    April 30, 2015 at 10:19 am

    i thought they were in Canada.

  5. Thomas says

    May 2, 2015 at 8:20 am

    This “registry” will be one of the first ngtld registries to fail. It might even become the “Lehman brothers” of registries, because myself would really hate if I would be another registrar and should help to save those blowhards when they fail.


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