Thanks. Would be nice to know who these end users with websites are, then separate out how many redirect to their real company name in a .Com or .ccTLD.
From the March 2019 survey (non-IDN 23,031,257 ):
3.85% Active/unclassified (887,724)
0.025% Brand protection
0.23% Clone (sites from other TLDs)
0.15% Framed redirect
2.40% External TLD redirect
7.46% Not found/Forbidden
17.41% Holding page
2.88% Internal redirect
0.86% Empty
4.45% Affiliate lander
0.9% Exact match redirect (external TLD)
11.01% PPC
3.27% Sale
5.08% HTTPS redirect (1,171,056)
1.56% Unavailable
0.11% Video affiliate/streamer
7.52% Adult Affiliate
0.01% Compromised/hacked
0.04% Social Media
0.43% Same TLD redirect
27.62% No site/no response
Some categories are not included. The external TLD redirect are sites redirecting to a site in another TLD. The exact match redirect is a site redirecting to the same name site in another TLD.
The level of Sales and PPC varies by gTLD. In US/CA, PPC parking is more common. In the Chinese market PPC parking is not as common and many sites are using affilate landers. The 3.85% Active development percentage and the HTTPS percentage are the important ones. Again, the usage varies across the NGTs. Some NGTs tend to use HTTPS by default. It hasn't worked out well with the Google NGTs because of the problem of people using one certificate for multiple sites.
Here is Rick's recent comments:
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The NGTs are bleeding registrations are the moment and that's largely due to heavily discounted registrations not being renewed and, in the case of the ex-Famous Four NGTs, not being replaced. There's still a lot of them to drop yet and the next five months or so will be really bad for some of these NGTs. The real problem with the NGTs isn't that domainers and speculators (whether the registry or other large players) own large numbers of domain names in the NGTs. They don't. The real problem is that discounting in some of the larger NGTs obscures development and usage. The NGTs are a set of generic TLDs, domain hacks and geographical/regional gTLDs. The only thing they have in common is that they are gTLDs.
Regards...jmcc