information Global Domain Name Market in 2016

[Lox]

Afnic has published a complete overview of the global domain market in 2016 in a study based on ICANN statistics, information from registries, specialized web sites and its own research.

Key points to remember

• Overall market growth in 2016 was 7.1%, down from 11.7% in 2015.

• At the end of 2016, the global domain name market represented some 338 million domain names, including 169 million under Legacy TLDs (.COM, .NET, .ORG, etc.), 28 million under nTLDs created from 2014 onwards, and 141 million under ccTLDs (GeoTLDs).
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• The situation of the "Legacy" TLDs varied quite considerably in 2016, some losing stock while others made marked progress. With its 131 million domain names and 39% market share, the .COM remained the market heavyweight but its positions are slowly being eroded, with a loss of 3 market share points since year-end 2014. Its growth has also considerably slowed down (from 6.4% to 3.7%).
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• nTLDs continued to gain market share in terms of volume, accounting for 8% of the domain names registered worldwide at year-end 2016, compared with 4% at year-end 2015. This development in the use of nTLDs is encouraging, although its level is still low. The nTLD market can be broken down into segments - Community, Geo, Generic and Corp - with very different purposes and profiles, from the hundreds of .Corp that only hold a few names, to generic TLDs involved in a race for volume.
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• Country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs)which had an excellent year in 2015, experienced zero growth in 2016. Africa and North America were the most dynamic regions in 2016, while Europe in comparison stagnated. Latin America is growing slowly but surely, and the Asia-Pacific region is subject to very strong variations both upwards and downwards. That region today is the one that determines the overall market trend.

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[offthehandle]

With its 131 million domain names and 39% market share, the .COM remained the market heavyweight but its positions are slowly being eroded, with a loss of 3 market share points since year-end 2014. Its growth has also considerably slowed down (from 6.4% to 3.7%).

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/top_level_domain/all dot com has 47.5% of developed websites, not simply registrations.

Their public study funding could be better used to stop the 0.8% erosion of french tourism.
https://www.thelocal.fr/20170221/il...on-loses-1-5-million-tourists-to-terror-fears

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...cks-impact-money-lost-aftermath-a7205121.html. US$820,000,000. less being spent.

 

[Lox]

dot com has 47.5% of developed websites, not simply registrations.

Overall 60 to 65 mil .com is in the hands of NPs and semi-domainers.

 

[JB Lions]

Then 2017 came. 2015 was all the Chinese stuff, which a lot dropped in 2016.

"nTLDs continued to gain market share in terms of volume"

Again, 2017. Using - https://ntldstats.com/tld

29.4 million a little over 2 months ago to 26.8 million, about 2.6 million decline in overall numbers...so far.

 

[Lox]

Correct No one really expect all the new gTLDs to be a success. In most countries (including China) tax laws allow you to write off certain investment-related xyz junk around expenses. In most cases xyz is the proof of funds e.g. invest, fake sale, cash out, show the growth, get the credit ... invest more etc , now they are doing the same thing by using the BTC.

 

[offthehandle]

Correct No one really expect all the new gTLDs to be a success. In most countries (including China) tax laws allow you to write off certain investment-related xyz junk around expenses. In most cases xyz is the proof of funds e.g. invest, fake sale, cash out, show the growth, get the credit ... invest more etc , now they are doing the same thing by using the BTC.

Continuous XYZ entertainment, thanks for that bit. Never occured to me that besides all the other stigma, XYZ is the tax evasion choice.