new gtlds .XYZ Blows Past .US which Had a 28 Year Head Start

[Arpit131]

This week the new gTLD .XYZ past .US, the ccTLD of the United States, in the total number of domain registrations.
According to RegistrarStats.com the number of .XYZ registration is 1,726,541 compared to .US which has 1,670.478.
Keep in mind that .US, which is the country code for the United States, has been in operation for 30 years, launching on February 15, 1985 while .XYZ launched on June 2, 2014.

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[namezest]

xyz reg fee was 1 dollar what was reg fee for us?

 

[Kate]

.us is a sad story as the US is the only major nation that shuns its own TLD.
The epitome of government incompetence.

 

[Wannabean]

.us is a sad story as the US is the only major nation that shuns its own TLD.
The epitome of government incompetence.

I've often wondered what went wrong there. Like you say ccTLD's are popular elsewhere. If you have a minute can you elaborate?

To the OP. Come June 2016 we will see how many of those xyz drop. Would be more interested to compare those figures then.

 

[JB Lions]

I've often wondered what went wrong there. Like you say ccTLD's are popular elsewhere. If you have a minute can you elaborate?

To the OP. Come June 2016 we will see how many of those xyz drop. Would be more interested to compare those figures then.

A little extension called .com.

The .xyz, time will tell. Namestat has 5 registrars listed where you can get them for $1.99 and lower. We'll see how many of those low priced regs renew. And if/how long those low priced regs will continue.

Plus, China has more people, over 4 times the U.S. population

China - 1,357,000,000
U.S. - 319,000,000

And only 8.6% of regs are from United States, over 58% from China according to:
https://namestat.org/xyz

Look at geographic spread for 1/8. 66.5% Japan, so somebody got a deal, U.S. was 1.5%.

 

[Kate]

I've often wondered what went wrong there. Like you say ccTLD's are popular elsewhere. If you have a minute can you elaborate?

There are many reasons:

• One is that .us has long been restricted. It's been released to the public in 2002, that is late.
  
• .com was already well established.
• the registry is apathetic and doing nothing to promote the extension, but I think it is also a political responsibility.
• US exceptionalism.
• Many countries have a strong bond to their national extension, but unlike other nations the US doesn't have just one TLD. The United States also has .mil and .gov, that are reserved to the US govt. .edu is mostly American. So .us doesn't stand strongly for United States, it's an extension among others.

In spite of the registration numbers, that are artificial to a large extent, .xyz is not a solid TLD. There are dying TLDs out there (.mobi .name .tel just to quote a few) that have respectable counts.
It shows that marketing can achieve results, but here we are talking about registration volume. If we are looking at the prevalence of quality development the stats might be less rosy.

 

[offersity]

Didnt they officially introduce .us back in 2001?
It was a failure from the start i guess.

 

[Wannabean]

There are many reasons:

• One is that .us has long been restricted. It's been released to the public in 2002, that is late.
  
• .com was already well established.
• the registry is apathetic and doing nothing to promote the extension, but I think it is also a political responsibility.
• US exceptionalism.
• Many countries have a strong bond to their national extension, but unlike other nations the US doesn't have just one TLD. The United States also has .mil and .gov, that are reserved to the US govt. .edu is mostly American. So .us doesn't stand strongly for United States, it's an extension among others.

In spite of the registration numbers, that are artificial to a large extent, .xyz is not a solid TLD. There are dying TLDs out there (.mobi .name .tel just to quote a few) that have respectable counts.
It shows that marketing can achieve results, but here we are talking about registration volume. If we are looking at the prevalence of quality development the stats might be less rosy.

Thanks for your reply. Sounds like there is a need for a USA cctld catered to national business.

Could there also be a chance that google get fed up with local US businesses ranking globally with .com's and messing up international searches?

 

[JB Lions]

Thanks for your reply. Sounds like there is a need for a USA cctld catered to national business.

Could there also be a chance that google get fed up with local US businesses ranking globally with .com's and messing up international searches?

There's no such need. .com works everywhere, it's kind of always been considered the "national" extension already.

 

[offersity]

To be fair to xyz, long ago I also used domainsarefree.com or was it namesarefree.com for free .com domains. That was one of a kind service at the time haha, they even mailed you the invoice a year or two later.

 

[-EM-]

I believe .tk has a high number of registration too....

 

[Wannabean]

There's no such need. .com works everywhere, it's kind of always been considered the "national" extension already.

Yeah but it's not necessary for local business to have a .com. Also there are some service industries where showing your local is important.

Cctld's also expand inventory in a relevant way.

 

[bmugford]

This comparison makes no sense. If you want to go by raw registration volume, .TK still has like 10x as many regs as .XYZ and is basically just as worthless.

Registration volume does not always have direct correlation to usage or value. When something is cheap enough, people will buy it, even if it is trash.

Brad