The new gTLD .TOP has become the 6th most registered domain extension passing .biz.
As of today according to RegistrarStats.com, .Top has 2,241,164 domain names registered, passing .biz which drops down to the 7th most registered top-level domain with 2,230,709 domains registered.
The 5th most registered domain name extension is .XYZ which has 2,768,291 domain names
The top four domain name extensions .Com, .Net .Org and .info still have a big lead
.info comes in number 4 with more than 5.5 million domain name registrations.
.Com has over 126 million domain registrations.
Top Level Domain registrations do not include ccTLD’s otherwise know as country codes which are two letters to the right of the dot while Top Level Domains are at least three letters to the right of the dot
GoBuy says
May 17, 2016 at 7:33 pmOn DomainTools.com it has .biz at 2,312,246
https://research.domaintools.com/statistics/tld-counts/
.top is 2,228,586
But I would not read to much into that since the .biz has been around for a long time now and many are domain websites and not just registration speculation. We will see in two years from now. I remember .biz having more and it lost some registrations. Looks like .top and .xyz have a chance at making it throw tho. We will see in the one and two year mark which is were many registrations will renew or drop.
Domo Sapiens says
May 17, 2016 at 7:41 pmselling @ 1 Dollar a piece” back to the future” (.info times).
anyhow I think far more imprtant is who is registering these jewels (newbies) and why?
there is NO re-sale market
There is no public Awareness
Even startups shunned them
John says
May 17, 2016 at 7:57 pmNot sure if I’ve ever once seen a .info on page 1 of google results. May have seen a .biz once or twice since it came out.
And as I’ve said before, the American public still doesn’t really know .us exists, and cares even less.
J says
May 18, 2016 at 3:18 pmBlackFriday.info
Joseph Peterson says
May 17, 2016 at 10:33 pmPersonally, I fully expect a few nTLDs to surpass .BIZ in long-term registration numbers. .BIZ simply isn’t very compelling.
Maybe .TOP will be 1 of those – especially since China is its target market. But at this point, I don’t think we’re really seeing a stable situation. Not quite yet. .TOP has been extensively promoted with rock-bottom prices – $1 or less. This happened in the middle of the 2015 Chinese surge, which was a transient condition. Plus, renewal time hasn’t come around for many registrations. Numbers may fall before stabilizing.
When the dust settles in a few years, .TOP might turn out to be lastingly ahead of .BIZ. Actually, I think that’s likely. People in China seem to like the suffix because it’s perceived as auspicious. In the West, .TOP doesn’t make much sense. So the registry is really aiming at a different bunch of consumers compared to .BIZ.
frank meester says
May 18, 2016 at 11:40 pmsome ”sherpa” member told his followers that somebody had emailed him telling him about .TOP
he wrote in his news letter ”somebody thinks that .TOP is the best thing since sliced bread ,anybody heard of .TOP ?[sarcasm obviously intended]
thats was about 8 months ago.
frank meester says
May 18, 2016 at 11:52 pmhttps://namestat.org/
1 .xyz 2,774,833 4,749
2 .top 2,267,716 16,012
Many big brands choose .TOP domains, for example, Baidu, Chanel, Chrome, Flickr, Gmail, Google, Hao123, Kindle, Otto and Yahoo etc.
https://sedo.com/us/new-gtlds/top-domain/
for sale premiums 8880.top 8686.top
KINGOF.TOP says
May 19, 2016 at 3:00 amThanks for this little ‘stat summary’.
It’s not a surprise that a TLD called ‘.top’ isn’t stop growing.
I expect that this ‘ultimate’ TLD will be #1 someday.
Why?
Because ‘human nature simply loves to reach the top’ and this smart TLD is a perfect way to do that – at least ‘in a digital way’.
This psychologic background is primarily the reason why so many investing in .top (instead of the thinking that promo prices are the reason) – this TLD has what no other TLD has, neither .com, .net. etc. – it have, in words, ‘top status’.
Many names have ‘com status’ (?), in the meanwhile others have ‘vip status’.
But to have ‘top status’ is the ‘ultimate status’.
This TLD is global & universal in its meaning, no one can denie that.
cmac says
May 19, 2016 at 11:36 amI expect that this ‘ultimate’ TLD will be #1 someday.
Why?
Because ‘human nature simply loves to reach the top’ and this smart TLD is a perfect way to do that – at least ‘in a digital way’.
bahaha
what a dumb thing to think…
KINGOF.TOP says
May 19, 2016 at 11:48 amYou will see, this will happen.
Sometimes things are so simple that it’s hard to accept.
The last laugh is the best laugh.
cmac says
May 20, 2016 at 4:11 pmwell you could be number one for throwaway spam domains i suppose. best gards.
KINGOF.TOP says
May 20, 2016 at 4:30 pmYou obviously have another perception than I have.
Robert McLean says
May 19, 2016 at 2:47 pmQuestion: What can be done about the flakes that make offers under $5000 and then not paying?