new gtlds Over 1.25 Million people registered the 4.8 Million new gTLDs

[Arpit131]

According to ntldstats, there are over 1.25 million unique registrants who registered the 4.8 million+ new gTLDs.
Over 3 million of the 4.8 million domain names or 62% of all new gTLD’s are parked, which includes those not having a name server, No Record, HTTP Error and those domain names being redirected to another domain, including those in other extensions like .com.
Over 8% of all new gTLD’s are being redirected to another domain name.
Frank Schilling's North Sound Names has the largest number of new gTLD registration with over 183,000 registrations.

Source: thedomains

 

[JB Lions]

Damn, didn't realize there were 1.24 million domainers.

 

[JayJay]

comments on the article explain why this number could have been easily inflated via private whois or slight changes to whois info for the same person/entity

 

[QianHuang]

This is a happy thing, I think, everything has its reason to exist. Just like I have registered some .top domains as a expectation for the new gtld.