The number of new gTLD domain name registrations have topped 5 Million for the first time, according to ntldstats.com
.XYZ as we have spoken about numerous times includes about 375,000 free registrations that were stuffed into Network Solutions customer accounts which represented about 43% of its registrations. The next five top-selling registrars for .XYZ are all in Asia and were being sold for $2 or less. This represents another 40% of all .XYZ registrations. So about 85% of all these registrations were for free or a very low price well below .Com.
The 2nd most registered domain is a IDN offered by the Internet Domain Name System Beijing Engineering Research Center LLC (ZDNS) which has about 350,000 registrations. As far as we can tell all of the domains were registered and owned by the registry itself and does not seem to have any paid 3rd party registrations.
The 3rd most registered new gTLD is .Club which has over 200,000 paid registrations in which Go Daddy.com leads all domain name registrars with over 30% of the market.
Looking at the top 10 registrants of new gTLD’s North Sound Domains leads the charts. It is worth nothing they share ownership with the owner of the registry that owns and operates the registry, Uniregistry.
North Sound Names has over 207,000 registrations of Uniregistry owned extensions. Uniregistry has just about 400,000 domain registrations so more than 50% of all Uniregistry registered new gTLD domains are owned by North Sound Names.
Full Article: http://www.thedomains.com/2015/04/1...ce-link-break-100k-we-break-down-the-numbers/We should also note that many new gTLD’s with the most applicants have not yet launched and some have not been settled including .Web, .Music, .App, .Art, .Law, .Book and a host of others.
We would expect a .Web might exceed the current total of all new gTLD’s by itself.
