The .TOP registry has been on fire adding over 75,000 domain name registration in the past two days
According to RegistrarStats.com .Top now has over 362,000 domains registered moving past .Science and is now only 2nd to .XYZ as the top registered new gTLD domain name extensions.
Yesterday according to RegistrarStats.com .Top picked up over 42,000 registrations and as you can see from the chart (also courtesy of RegistrarStats.com) had just around 220,000 registrations at the end of August.
I chatted with Mason Zhang of the .TOP registrar who told me all NNNN.top domain names were registered and except for a few NNNNN.top domains that contained the number 4 and/or 0 all NNNNN.top domains were also now registered.
According to ntldstats.com around 24% of all .Top domain are registered with the Chinese domain registrar, Chengdu West.
The top 6 domain name registrars with the most number of .Top registrations are all located in China.
I’m guessing if you could have bet in Vegas last year when the new gTLD program started to roll out that the two top new gTLD registries by October 1, 2015 would have been .XYZ and .Top you could have gotten some pretty favorable odds.
I don’t get this arms race. It’s not about volumes, it’s about value. Anyone can sell thousands of domains at a few USD, Try to sell them at USD 100 per piece. These domains will do nothing than point at empty parking lots
Its very easy on the keyboard to press TOP
Agree. It fulfills the conditions to create very brandable domains, but that wasn’t my point with the comment. Does the .top Registry really believe that the more domains out there, hence the more valuable will they look. It’s a fundamental misconception initially started by .xyz and then copied by several others. An error.
Selling a standard domain for 100 or 1000 dollars doesn’t make it more valuable. It’s who uses the domain and how to use it that do.
Searching for “valuable” domains? Go get a dozen .rich, that should be satisfactory.
Yes. And the price (or requirements) will scare off squatters and other non value adding registrants. Look at the .tickets strategy to see how it could be done
.Top and .XYZ are short and easy to type.
.Computer .Kyryu .Technology are wayyyyyyyy too long as end users are looking for short and descriptive .com or brandables. I would go with a .XYZ and .TOP way before .whateveristoolongtotypeonamobile.
Think about a 10 second radio ad. The name must stick in listener’s heads. The word “DOT” already kill the fluidity of the address. “Visit FaceBook(dot)com” vs “Visit Face(dot)Book”. Personally, once I hear the “DOT” I unintentionally stop listening.
Is your brand “Face Book” and using a .com .XYZ? or your brand is “Face” and using a .Book?
I don’t get it, how .xyz and .top can be the two most registered new gtld’s. I can’t imagine seeing these extensions being used on a regular basis by mainstream end users. Maybe one here or there but what is being done with all these xyz and top domains being registered? Is it because they’re being given away for next to nothing, or hype??
I can understand names like Yoga.guru, Detroit.pizza or Coding.tech getting traction, but hard to understand what is going on with .xyz and more so .top right now. All the NNNN.top and most NNNNN.top domains are registered now? really?…. why?
Why? Because .TOP and .XYZ are popular in China! 🙂
in addition, the word ‘TOP’ works well in over 10 languages.
Christopher, you are correct. The industry has been determining success strictly by volume and not revenues. Likely because, determining revenues is a lot more difficult as the registry price is not disclosed (which you can determine) but more so, promotional pricing, rebates, etc.
I do try to incorporate revenues into my analysis (TLDs with huge giveaways are eliminated) which is completed every quarter (next week will be Q3) which I hope, reflects more of a business perspective.
All ‘parking lots’ will take time to develop – question is which ones are chosen to be developed by its owner and is it associated with the domain name price (or another variable)? If it is, then the industry needs an even better measurement tool.
the industry needs to realise what are the real value of a string across other languages .. ( ex: dot Link works in
almost any language, .Science does not ) ..
with all the spamming and supposedly fake sales i would be surprised if these were all purchases by individuals and not the company itself.
“I don’t get it, how .xyz and .top can be the two most registered new gtld’s.”
Very simple, when you’re practically giving them away, it’s easy to get reg numbers. Free and $1 domains will get you reg numbers. Right now, Namecheap has .xyz at $1.
.XYZ is popular in China and Google gave it a boost with abc.xyz. The boost from two big names put .xyz on top before .top shows up in number two.
The .TOP registry sold a lot of premiums to big companies and also marketed it well in China. With the tremendous local market they just do well with known $1.5+ million of sales so far. Another thing China can brag to the world.
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I will say I always thought it was unfair to include the results of landrush auctions as they are not Aftermarket sales and as far as I can tell you don’t include EAP fees paid just to secure a domain so for example I paid $xx,xxx to register online.dating on day one of EAP why is that not included if landrush auctions are included
Fully with you here Mike. What DNPric.es is trying to do is to provide all PriceTa.gs: be it aftermarket sales, expiry auctions, or landrush premium purchases / renewals.
All registries are welcome to provide their data to the public, something we are working on right now. Cash flow is cash flow. It is important to know the dollar amount to price the asset, hence the will to get as much of the relevant numbers as possible.
How to see the sales of gTLDS, for e.g .online, .club on dnpric.es?
The easier way is to type .tld| in the search. E.g., .club : this will give you the top 100 .club sales. One can also browse below certain dollar value adding another option: http://dnpric.es/?q=.club|+$%3C500 check per year adding @2015, etc. Check the syntax which allows all sorts of queries.
Alternatively, in the TLD league, one can hover over the tld to see various links: top 100, by year, by month, by broker, by length, top movers, and latest.
75,000 in 2 days?
That’s about how many emails I get from these snake oil selling spammers.