information 74% of new TLD registrations (SLD+TLD) not registered in .com

[News]

Early this year, as new top level domain names started to be released, I noticed something interesting while reviewing which new TLDs were being registered: most of them were available in .com.

I noticed that the second level domain (SLD) plus Top Level Domain (TLD) combination was usually available as SLDtld.com. For example, Something.Guru was available as SomethingGuru.com.

This might not be surprising when you look at specific examples. A lot of sld.tld registrations don’t make much sense as a continuous string. Rather than looking at it as a continuous string, the TLD is merely a category for the topic of the SLD. A lot of new TLDs also read “backward” and wouldn’t make much sense as SLD+TLD.com. Examples include .best, .top and .cheap.

Perhaps more interesting is that Verisign discovered that 16% of second level domains registered in new top level domain names aren’t registered in .com.

Full Article: http://domainnamewire.com/2014/12/23/74-of-new-tld-registrations-sldtld-not-registered-in-com/
Verisign Report: http://blogs.verisigninc.com/blog/entry/what_s_really_new_in

 

[Super Software]

"When observing the DNS requests for the string in .COM, I found that for more than 20 thousand strings they began being requested as .COM strings only after the new gTLD string was registered."

The above quote is the most important or key takeaway for me from this report. I have personally seen my dot COM traffic on soar on such names. This is a transition period and I hope this quickly gets resolved by smarter Nameserver Resolution perhaps?.

Earlier I had reported select ISP NS still not resoving nTLDs and some issues with applications like WhapsApp, Facebook not recognizing and click enabling nTLD strings/URLs...this is another challenge.

However I am not surprised that the dot CLUB extension has one of the least numbers of available COMs in the report. That shows select nTLD extensions do make sense. Now if we can resolve "technical issues" and pave the way for greater adoption.

Like I have said repeatedly: NO REVOLUTION is without blood shed...this one is just getting started!

Pioneers ahead!