According to Verisign the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base are back over 127 million after dropping below that number briefly in December.
It seems that the huge domain registration volume that occurred in the 4Q of 2015 have now recycled through. Those domain names that were dropped after the first year of registration have now dropped and its back to business as usual.
Its appears that there was an increase of over 3 million domain registrations in the 4Q of 2015 and a lost of less than 50% of those but we will have to wait for the Verisign to release their Industry Brief for the 4Q of 2016 or their earnings release and call which is scheduled for Feb 9, 2017.
As long as GTlds failed to be the cheap alternatives of .com, I am very sure 2 words and 3 words .com will be the choice.
Which will you choose : FakeNews.com or Fake.News if both are expensive. We know the story about Wine.Club, it is sold so expensive.
Wine.xyz is still available as registry premium domain, and the price is 12,000 $. Anyone interested to buy it?
I’ll better use a good brandable .com I think….
It’s nice to see the .com market picking back up again. Just goes to show that many of the new gTLD waves will just be short and long-lived trends instead of viable alternatives.
I have in my portfolio more than 1,000 new domain names for registering a word, three letters and a number and two words all over .Com.
Luck at http://namescon.com/ and sell all the extensions gTDLs accepted by the Chinese just in case, world markets are waiting for a next Oath and future decisions for tomorrow.
3 million domain registrations, somebody was doing something big, I wonder what they did with the ones the kept.
Back to the basics with .Com. 🙂