news .COM Registrations Continue to Rise, Unphased by New gTLDs, ICANN Study Reveals

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A recent study commissioned by ICANN reveals despite introduction and growth of new gTLDs, .COM and other legacy TLDs have remained steady and rising. The report concludes: "we found no aggregate (worldwide) effect of new gTLD entry or registrations on legacy TLD registrations: registrations of legacy TLDs continued to follow the same pattern before and after the beginning of the New gTLD Program." This is consistent with new gTLDs generally not being treated as substitutes for legacy TLDs, it concludes.

The shares of domain name registrations across registries, and across registrars, continue to be more dispersed for new gTLDs compared with legacy gTLDs...

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