information Report: 28.99% of domains are re-registered by other users

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Who Is Hosting This took a deep dive into the world of domain registrations and domain name renewal rates. They enlisted the services of Whois XML API, and put together their report. From the article: The Sample Whois XML API collected data on one million domains registered on the most popular eight TLDs by the number of domain registrations.

The Sample
Whois XML API collected data on one million domains registered on the most popular eight TLDs by the number of domain registrations. All are gTLDs apart from the ccTLD .CN (People’s Republic of China), but some might surprise you.

The randomly selected sample was made up of the following domains:

TLD Sample Size

.COM 796,501
.NET 84,153
.TOP 53,691
.ORG 35,844
.INFO 17,655
.CN 7,111
.XYZ 3,840
.BIZ 1,205
Only 30% of domains registered are kept after one year

Over two in five domains are left to expire each year

28.99% of domains are re-registered by other users

Read the full report here

 

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"Only 30% of domains registered are kept after one year"

I am guilty of the "one year experiment," to see if a hand registration gets any activity, meaning offers. Sometimes it works, some times it doesn't. As long as the ones that work pays for the ones that don't, it's all good.

 

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The TLDs with the lowest percentage of renewals were .TOP, .BIZ, and .CN, with renewal rates of 22.22%, 16.60% and 1.72%.

 

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The average churn rate for domains is over 70%
Registrants chose not to keep 702,133 of the one million domains analyzed: that’s a churn rate of 70.21%.

When we break this down by TLD, we can see that the TLDs with the highest churn rates are .CN (98.28%), .BIZ (83.40%), and .TOP (77.78%).

Those with the lowest churn rates are .INFO (65.44%), .ORG (55.76%), and .NET (53.69%).