AlpNames.com has become the 2nd Largest New gTLD Registrar In The World according to ntldstats.com.
The domain name registrar which was little known and used before the new gTLD program has skyrocket into having the 2nd most new gTLD registrations with over 430K registration passing Network Solutions that has over 427,000 registrations.
Alpnames.com now accounts for over 7.5% of all new gTLD domain name registrations
Alpnames.com seems to have a special relationship with one new gTLD portfolio registrant, Famous Four Media, both of which are based on Gibraltar.
As you can see from the they are all Famous Four Strings except for 14 registrations out of over 430,000 registrations:
| .science | 258,183 | 59.96% |
| .party | 140,024 | 32.52% |
| .webcam | 29,022 | 6.74% |
| .trade | 3,301 | 0.77% |
| .bid | 12 | 0.00% |
| .events | 11 | 0.00% |
| .cricket | 4 | 0.00% |
| .space | 2 | 0.00% |
| .cash | 1 | 0.00% |
| .digital | 1 | 0.00% |
.Science is a mixture of free domain names and domains sold for .$.49
After the first 5,ooo or so domains, AlpNames.com has been offering free .Party domain name registrations since May 6th but may also be priced at $.49 now.
Alpnames has also been offering free .Webcam domain names over the last 2+ weeks.
In the case of the 3rd largest new gTLD registrar that Alpnames just passed, Network Solutions, ]also has 7.5% of all new gTLD domain registrations, but 88% of its domain registrations in the form of free .XYZ registrations.
And based on the sorts of names being registered, I am expecting a lot of spam originating from .science and .party which has put a bit of a downer on my interest in those extensions once I looked at them closer…not to mention anything good is a premium “call to get the price”
I did grab some .science originally, but haven’t bothered with .party and expect to drop most of the .science when renewal comes due. May change my mind down the track depending on what happens with the extensions
Bots-registrators will give a millions for few days