The huge surge in daily domain name registrations continued yesterday as over 460,000 domain names were registered across all Top Level Domains (excluding ccTLD).
Traditionally the number of domain name registrations slow on the weekend, to the point where it’s not unusual to see the number of .Com deleted, exceed the number of new registrations for the day, leading to a negative number.
Well not yesterday.
The total number of new domain registrations Saturday was over 460,000.
.Com had over 222K new registrations and over 135,000 net registrations.
.Com got over 275,000 new domain registrations the previous day or basically 500,000 new registrations in the past two days.
In the last reported Quarter, Verisign (VRSN) reported 8.5 Million new .com and .net registrations for the 90 day quarter ending June 30, 2015 and we had http://www.verisign.com/en_US/innovation/dnib/index.xhtmlover 550,000 .com and .net registrations in just the past two days.
.Com’ s net registrations of 135,855 was actually beaten out by the 136,589 registrations for the new gTLD .Top (since .Top is not yet a year old there are no deletions)
.Net picked up almost 15,000 net registrations and adding over 40,000 net registrations on Friday.
.XYZ picked up over 14,000 domain registrations
The new gTLD .Wang has over 8,600 new registrations and what is becoming next new gTLD string Favorited by Chinese domain investors , .REN gained over 15,000 registrations.
.Win added over 5,000 registrations
Yesterday .Top passed .Mobi in terms of registration for the first time.
.Mobi was launched in 2006.
.Top went live in November 2014 and now has 742,203 domain registered, the 2nd most registered new gTLD to .XYZ.
Why are there so many domain names registrations?
As we continue to talk about it’s all about the Chinese domain investors who are continue to register domain names, mostly numbers and letters in record amounts.
While I don’t have daily records for domain registrations, we are on a record pace.
Yesterday saw almost 500,000 new registrations across all Top Level Domains the day before saw over 300,000 new .com and .net registrations.
Consider that at Verisign’s last report there were 296 million domain registrations including 135 Million ccTLD’s country code domain names (ccTLD) (which we do not get daily updated records of).
So you’re looking at a universe of around 160 Million domain registrations, which just grew by 1/2 of a percent in just the last two days.
If new domain registrations continued to averaged the numbers it has over the last two days, for a 90 day period, that would be 45 million new domain names in any increase of almost 30%.
Consider that the total number of domain name registrations from the first quarter to the second quarter of 2015 increased just .8 percent.
So we are on a growth level more than 30X greater than the last quarter.
Yes it’s Amazing.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-brink-major-milestone-consequences-110100470.html
I think China is getting for either a slow or quick currency devaluation reset
This explains perhaps a lot of the ongoings in domaining
November the article says
Everyone is chasing the numeric carrot.
I can’t believe Verisign is not promoting the .cc extension. The best extension on the planet and they let it simmer on it’s own. Even the Chinese see how great .cc is. Do they even have a marketing department at Verisign??? Fire them all. When a little extension like xyz blows your marketing out of the water everyone at Verisign should be ashamed, very ashamed.
its such an expensive extension. prices need to come down.
.cc is only at $12.40 at Namebright.com
Cheapest place to buy .cc from what I’ve seen.
Yes, 12.99 doesn’t seem like too much. Namebright is the best for .cc I have found.
Knock, knock, anyone home at Verisign???? Hello, anyone there????? Interesting how these behemoth’s take forever to pivot or adjust to a market……………….
How about those idn.com’s ??? Another disaster slowly unfolding……. Let’s split the .com extension and see what happens???? Fun times.
I never got the attraction to cc. What does it even mean to the average person? Verbally, give average joe your .cc domain address…. “dot cc?….cee cee? see see?…ci ci?…ci ci’s pizza?” Yes, it’s short..but so is .ws….
Up down or sideways Uniregistry Market looks forward to clearing those secondary market transactions of the future, and we placed 24,000 of these registrations yesterday.
Do you have any plan to support TOP and WANG in the near future? IMHO, registrars should be more open to Chinese domain investors as they are one major force driving the market.
@Frank Schilling,
I know you’re trying to promote your registrar. But imagine what blog comments would look like if every single registrar showed up – as you just did – to announce that it’s happy to register domains for customers. Goes without saying. But we’d have to sift through dozens of such remarks.
Disagree, it’s good to know the owner is still firmly grounded and has enough passion to share the fact that his company has registered 25,000 domains in one day!
Firmly grounded = comment spam ?
Frank Schilling is a pioneer. He’s been telling us all along that “there’s gold in them their hills”. Good to see Frank’s not just talking the talk he’s walking the walk. I wonder where his team is prospecting? Domain name sales are certainly accelerating….Something UP.
Congrats to .top for this wonderful performance.