domains 70% of all domains fail to be renewed

[Lox]

Upon analyzing a data sample, which covered one million domains registered across the eight leading TLDs, web hosting firm WhoIsHostingThis discovered that a mere 30% of all web domains are renewed after 12 months. This means that the true extent of the churn rate for domains across TLDs is 70%, which means that a massive 702,133 of the one million domains were dropped.

The findings

Of the one million domains making up the sample, only 29.79% were kept by registrants. 70.21% of domains were not renewed, either being left to expire (41.22%) or re-registered by others (28.99%).

Renewal rates varied significantly by TLD.

Interestingly, the TLDs that saw the highest percentage of domains kept after one year were .NET, .ORG and .INFO, with renewal rates of 46.31%, 44.24% and 34.56% respectively.

On the other hand, the TLDs with the lowest percentage of renewals were .TOP, .BIZ, and .CN, with rates of 22.22%, 16.60% and 1.72%.

The average churn rate for domains is over 70%

Registrants chose not to keep a huge 702,133 of the one million domains analyzed, equating to a high volume churn rate of 70.21%.

Looking at the TLDs with the highest churn rates, these were .CN (98.28%), .BIZ (83.40%) and .TOP (77.78%).

And those with the lowest churn rates are .INFO (65.44%), .ORG (55.76%) and .NET (53.69%).

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[adaaja98]

what is churn rate ?

 

[alcy]

i guess its safe to say 95%+ of the 70% domains that don't renew, were owned by domainers

 

[Lox]

i guess its safe to say 95%+ of the 70% domains that don't renew, were owned by domainers

Mostly spammers, scammers, hackers etc ... thanks to $1- promo codes. Domaniers are cute

 

[Lox]

what is churn rate ?

Timeframe + % of customers leave a company / business because of some reason/s .

 

[sellnow]

Great analyze, many worthless domain deleted everyday, TLDs and gTLD

 

[FolioTeam]

Thanks for sharing

 

[lock]

I hate to think that I contribute to renewing rubbish at times that I inevitability drop. I should cut portfolio by 70% get with the times.

 

[bmugford]

I would like to see this extrapolated to a larger sample size.

I think the numbers would be totally different with a larger sample.

Brad

 

[Recons.Com]

I am surprised by .cn rates. I assume they must be running under $1 promos, getting millions of regs where the registrant has no intention of renewing at regular rate. And then just count on the next regular promo.

The ones with better rates are those where you don't see great promos often, for example, .org.

With .com, of course, there are many investors who think a year is enough to know if the name is a keeper. No inquiries = drop. Most of my sales wouldn't have happened, if I adopted this approach. I keep 98% of my .coms nowadays.

 

[Samer]

Drop rate 3L.com? vdf.com dropped lol

Samer