The total number of new gTLD registrations just passed 1.5 Million according to ntldstats.com
The official count is 1,510,985.
.XYZ is still leading with almost 300,000 registrations.
While Network Solutions is still responsible for the vast majority of domain name registrations of .XYZ,, Netsol share of .XYZ total registrations have fallen below 80%. Discounting all Network Solutions registrations, .XYZ still has around 65,000 registrations which would put it a virtual tie with .Guru.
.Berlin is solidly in second place with almost 140,000 registration but which has slowed to around 40 registrations a day, over the last 11 days.
.Club is at almost 83,000 registration and is growing at a good clip of somewhere around 5,000 over the last 11 days.
.Guru is solidly in fourth place at 65,000 registrations.
.Photography is now over 40,000 registrations.
11 new gTLD’s have 25,000 or more registrations.
29 new extensions have 10,000 or more registrations.
62 new domain extensions have 5,000 or more registrations including .services which just launched this past week.
53 new gTLD’s have less than 2.500 registrations.
16 new domain extension have less than 1,000 registrations including .Christmas and .Blackfriday that launched this week.
The zone file for .GOP which also launched this week on Monday, is still empty so we have no idea of how many registrations there got.
Concerning .xyz: The reason network solutions dropped to 78% (coming from 88%) of all .xyz registrations is because onamae.com is rising fast (a japanese registrar also selling .xyz). They are selling .xyz domains for 180 Yen a pop (around $1.78 per .xyz domain). As a result Network Solutions currently has 78% of all .xyz registrations and onamae.com is now on second place with 4.69 % (Godaddy is on third place with 3.06% of all .xyz registrations).
I guess for $1.78 per domain a lot more people are buying into them.
If you search, you’ll notice I’ve never criticized DOTXYZ for their marketing strategy; as a matter of fact, I’m on record giving away 3 freebies to the new gTLD Registries, (out of 11) and one of the 3 was selling their names at $2.99 or less for the first 3 years.
The .XYZ guy is on to something here. Too bad his string is incredibly lame.But (virtually all the SLDs in it are available for on the dot COM, including his CEO.XYZ, the corresponding CEOXYZ.COM is available), but his marketing is genius.
In the end to me that lowers the value of .xyz even more (if there was any to start with). Selling domains under $2 (with no limit) is just inviting the creation of many .xyz spam sites. Seems like .info all over again.
One of the major failings of low cost domain names, in terms of development, is that the low price does not create an impulse to develop. Developing websites costs money and takes time. One of the biggest advantages of the low cost .INFO domains was that it was possible to develop micro-sites and rapidly monetise them with Adsense. But that is not such an easy option now. Development in .XYZ is low (I ran a web usage and development survey on .XYZ on June 26th.) and any development is being swamped by PPC parked sites.
It’s incredible how quickly the word is spreading about these new domain extensions. Congratulations go out to all the registrars and owners of these TLDs. Loads of domainers have attempted to hammer you guys down but you are sticking with things and coming out on top. It took close to 10 years for 1.5 Million dot coms to be registered when they were first online. Now the new TLDs have reached 1.5 Million registrations in less than 8 months. Fantastic. This is incredible. Truly is. I must personally congratulate the .XYZ extension owner since he has put his heart and soul into marketing his extension and even without the Network Solutions names it has been doing amazingly well. The future is only growing. Rather rapidly too. I hope to read more positive posts from domain bloggers in the future. If not, you are virtually digging your own grave by putting down the same industry that helps put food on your table.
@Savio
.COM took so long to go to 1.5 million registrations because of the fact the internet was new back then. Now .com has 112 million registrations.
Also you’re comparing ONE extension .com with the total results of 322 gTLDs combined.
The average registrations per new gTLD is 4,692 registrations (which is actually boosted by the many free .berlin and .xyz registrations so the real average number of paid registrations in in fact much lower).
Don’t get carried away. Almost 400 new gTLDs launched, yet their magnitude in terms of number of registration barely rival or surpass dot Biz numbers. That is appalling. Not to mention actual use, and adoption where they are inferior to dot Biz.
Savio, .com is one extension, which you’re comparing to 25+ (soon to be 1,000+) new extensions, apples and oranges? We’re in different times now, there is no accurate comparing to .com 🙂
@rirchard
He’s not comparing it to 25+, he’s comparing it to over 300 new gTLDs. Savio’s logic is that the new gTLDs must do good because 322 of them combined did as good as .COM did 10 years ago… lol
You can find all new 322 gTLDs here:
http://ntldstats.com/tld
Looks like NetSol pulled the plug: http://ntldstats.com/registrar/2-Network-Solutions-LLC
Amazing what 265k of freebies will do. This is the Cynk penny stock of gTLDs.
There seems to be a fear that the value of .com will go down because of the new TLDs. Rather the value of .com will always rise and rise with more and more new domain extensions coming onto the market. Don’t get scared that your valuable .com domain names will not be worth that much. Be excited about the fact that you have more options in the reseller market in the coming years. Compare .xyz to the real estate market. Did property brokers shy away from marketing and selling condos when they first came onto the market. Of course not. .xyz are like condos. They are smaller in size but will be the extension used by most end users and investors in the future. Another extension that will do very well is .blog. I can bet that it will reach 100,000 registrations within 6 months of launch. Don’t worry though. I have nothing to do with these new TLDs. I am just a happy domain seller who is looking at the amazingly bright reseller market that lies ahead for all of us (especially guys like me) in the future. Let’s say 5 years from now.
Based on the pathetic registration number’s I’m seeing of the new gTLDs (1.5 million / 322 gTLDS = only 4,692 registrations on average per new gTLD) I agree with you that the value of .com will not go down because of the new gTLDs.
What I don’t agree with is that .xyz will be used by most end users and investors in the future. That sounds like a naive prediction to me.
.XYZ currently has around 60,000 “paid” registrations. With the rate they are growing they may reach 200K paid registrations in a few years. Consider the fact that there are 2.5 billion internet users out there, 200K is not even a blip on the radar. I would hardly call this “used by most end users and investors” (I’m even ignoring the fact that a lot of those .xyz registrants will register more than one .xyz domain which would make the number of real end-users/investors of .xyz obviously lower).
All your comments just make me believe you invested heavily in .xyz and are trying to convince others it was the right thing to do.
you sound like a reputation management .guru, good luck with your domain investments 😀
I wouldn’t compare new TLDs to condos. They are more like the favelas one sees in places like Sao Paulo.
The discussion is about the new domain extensions not anything else. There are more people on Facebook than there are domain names. Does that mean that we consider domain names to be worthless? The best part about the new domains is that they give more and more options to end users and people living all over the world. More people will own domains in the future. The market will have 5x to 25x more players than on this day. It’s going to be huge for all of us who encourage this rapid growth rather than hammer them down for no logical reason. Yes, I invested in 5 .xyz domain names. Does that make me a loyal supporter of their extension. Of course. I have bought and sold over 3000 domain names in the last 5 years. Does that make me highly obligated to this industry. Of course it does. This business helps put food on my table. And the way I see it, things are only going to get better. I wonder where some of you will be when there are 300 Million of these new domain extensions registered. Yes, end users must buy these domain names and build sites around them. But, the fact is that end users have options now. More than ever. Domain extensions like .services could have been marketed a whole lot better if they charged $5 per name registered. Imagine how many domain names would be registered then/ Obviously, many more than what we see after just a few days. Some of you should just attend a positivity seminar or something like that. I sense loads of negativity here. Once again, don’t be scared that your valuable dot coms will go down in value because of these new names on the market. They will only rise higher.
What is your logic that .coms will only rise higher?
@ Domain Observer,
What would be different from the trend now pushing .Com Traffic Grid Urls higher? KISS
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger) (Domain Master)
@Savio
There’s now 1.5 million new gTLD registrations (spread over 322 new gTLDs). When the new gTLDs started to come out they looked promising. .Guru for example did pretty good out of the opening gate. But now, many months later and tons of new gTLDs later, it seems to me the new gTLD market is already stagnating. Just look at the latest registration stats from the latest new gTLDs. Lack of marketing is one reason for sure, the other being (imo) that there is (and never was) no real need for new gTLDs (other than to bring more confusion).
When the “better” gTLDs finally come out (such as .blog, .shop and .web) they will definitely get more awareness (especially since Google will be promoting their own gTLDS) and some of them will even be moderately successful but at the end of the day 98-99% of all new gTLDS will most likely be a failure.
While I agree that growing aftermarket demand for domain names could benefit all domain investors, I don’t see any evidence that aftermarket demand for domain names is mushrooming in 2014. It is likely that around 98% of new TLD registrations are held by domain investors and that ratio will still be the case five years from now as well.
So how many aftermarket domain sales are there in a year? For 2013 SEDO reported 37k sales of which more than half of those were .COM (don’t they have around 18 million domains in their marketplace?). Godaddy Auctions is reporting around 40k in sales monthly say 500k annually but my guess is that 80% of those are expiring domain auctions which end up under $200 and most of those are probably .COM or .Net sales . Do Namejet and DNS report aggregate sales figures by quarter like SEDO? Some other registrars have marketplaces but they are relatively small. So while I cannot accurately gauge current aftermarket demand, where does the end user demand come from to absorb all these new TLD domain registrations? Oh that’s right, we have to wait till my 12-year old niece is 30 years old and is looking for a domain for her small business (and yes by then all the good .COMs will be taken).
Look at domain names as different types of property around the world. There are large homes (mansions, villas, bungalows, etc.) that cost in the Millions (depending on location and size). These large homes are similar to .com names. Then we have property types such as condos, houses smaller than villas and mansions, and huts. Right now, many of the new TLDs are like slums all over the world. Dharavi is the largest slum in Asia. People who live there from the start bought their homes for Rs.1000. Now the value of their huts (over 40 years later) are between Rs.40,00,000 to Rs.1,000,000. Domains like .club, .services, .company, .xyz are like slums in Mumbai and Rio. At the end of the day, does having Millions of slums equal higher price than villas and mansions. It doesn’t. That’s why .com will always rise higher in price. That doesn’t mean that .xyz and .services will slow down. People are always looking for options. Take a look at the smartphone market. Very soon, we shall have more smartphones than TV sets in our world. Does that make TVs less valuable. Of course not. Tomorrow there shall be smaller phones on the market. Maybe the size of a watch on your hand. With voice messaging and vocal instructions. What we must type out today can simply be dictated here in these comments. Imagine how much time that would save for everyone concerned. Article websites such as buzzle.com, ezinearticles.com, etc. have dozens of categories there. They don’t just dump all their new articles into a single category. The content writers have choices to write about thousands of topics under the sun and publish them under hundreds of categories. The greatness of the internet is the fact that we are spoiled for choices. And mostly for free. Does that make the internet smaller in size. Definitely doesn’t. Everyone wants new stuff, different things to do with their time and want to explore the world more and more. Everything changes. I am not making drastic predictions about the future. Neither am I saying that new TLDs will overtake dot coms. It’s just amazing how people here jump to conclusions and quickly start attacking the messenger rather than focus on improving the quality of their own lives. It’s a good thing it’s a holiday here today. Else responding to the people commenting on my replies has been a great waste of my time. The fact is that there are over 1.5 Million new domain names registered. Celebrate it. Full stop. But then I already did that.
If only 1-2% of all the new gTLDs will be successful would it be, from an investor point of view, wise to be investing in these new gTLDs?
If only 1-2% of all the new gTLDs will be successful would it be, from an end-user point of view, wise to be building a company on these new gTLDs?
Sadly those are realistic numbers as of now (based on the extremely low registration numbers on average per new gTLD and the fact that the registration numbers of all new gTLDs seem to be stagnating already at this point).
Domain is not real estate like land or houses. So, the analogy is not really appropriate imo. Traditional TV sets(brown tube, pdp, lcd, led, etc) are a declining industry. They are giving way to smartphones or other wearable devices.
I actually imagined that there would be close to 5 Million new TLD registrations by today but unfortunately because of the high price of these domains people just aren’t registering them in larger numbers. Anyone can register a dot com for less than $2 nowadays. The owners of these new domain extensions must drastically bring down their prices in order that more and more of us register and start using these domain names. Registering names like .club for close to Rs.1000 per year is just not worth it for an investor. I would rather register dot com names at less than Rs.140 a piece. And that’s exactly what I’ve done. I ardently hope that those guys at DONUTS and GOOGLE read this blog (they probably should) so that they can reduce the prices for registering these new extensions and start offering coupon codes to renew and transfer them so that the reseller market is enhanced further. All said and done, it’s an outstanding achievement that over 1.5 Million new domains are registered within 8 months since the prices of domains like .expert and .company make me want to puke at the marketing strategies of these companies.
While I agree that some prices of the new gTLDs are ridiculously high and cheaper prices would increase the amount of registrations (mostly from domain investors though as most end users are unaware of most new gTLDS); too cheap prices will most likely just lower the “quality” of the extension since more spam sites will arise (especially when the price of a registration is $2 or less just like what is happening with .xyz through the registrar http://onamae.com right now).
Quote:”Anyone can register a dot com for less than $2 nowadays”
Yes, you can sometimes get a new .com for $2 through a coupon code but those are limited. You can’t build a $2 .com portfolio unless you register only one .com per week. The average registrar price of a .com is still around $10. And that’s around the price any new gTLD’s should be. But if people aren’t aware these new gTLDs exist and somehow convinced they have some value then nobody is going to buy them even for $10 a pop. Of course marketing is in the hands of the registrars/registries but to actually convince people the new gTLDs have value will not be so easy. Why do they have value? Just because the .com is taken? I rather buy a good .com on the aftermarket than to hand-register a domain in an unproven extension.
Yes, some new gTLDs should bring their prices to .com level. The .XXX model will not be effective any more for the new extensions in this new era. I expect a lot of M&As among them in order to be price-competitive.
They say a rising tide lifts all boats so most domain investors would like to see growing aftermarket demand for domains. This could happen if people currently using Blogger, WIX, Facebook, Youtube, Google+ for their web presence eventually launch websites as well. However, 1.5 million new TLD registrations 98% by domainers is not really an accomplishment. If a group of domain investors starts registering thousands of four-word .COM domains and some blogger reports hey the number of four word .COM registrations has doubled in the last few months, what would that mean? Who is going to buy those four-word .COMs from them? How many four-word .COM domains have you seen reported on DNJ? There probably are a few sales just like there will be random new TLD sales. It doesn’t mean having 75% of one’s portfolio in new TLDs is a prudent thing to do.
Get down the prices of .services, .company, .guru, .vacations, .xyz, etc. to less than $2 and I can almost guarantee you that the number of new TLD registrations will double within a month.
When the iPad first came out it seemed like everyone wanted one. Apple did really well with the iPad during those initial years. But, soon, the guys and girls who bought (or got gifted) those iPads realized that it was almost worthless having one when they could easily have a much smaller sized instrument do more than what one can do on an iPad. Smartphones rule the market not. Tomorrow MiniPhones will come into the market and they will rule. Leonard is right when he sayd that more sites must be built and more users from Facebook and similar sites should construct websites and register domain names (rather the other way round). The future is bright for all of us. It’s just how we look at things. Planning is almost everything. Failing to plan is planning to fail. Most domain investors don’t make sales month after month because they just haven’t planned things well. They see a trend and jump onto it like a bee goes to honey. It just doesn’t work out like this in the domain sales market. Trends usually go and so does your money invested. Even the so-called domaining gurus like Rick have discreetly and quietly registered over 550 new domain extensions. What does that tell you? That they know the potential of this market. All that $hit that they tell you about how they just invested in it to give it a shot or because they own similar keywords in the dot com are just manipulative ways that they have always used to not let others know what their real plans are. Take my advice. Plan things better. Leave the rest to God.
Quote “Most domain investors don’t make sales month after month because they just haven’t planned things well. They see a trend and jump onto it like a bee goes to honey. It just doesn’t work out like this in the domain sales market. ”
Indeed, you saw a potential trend in the new gTLDs and jumped onto it like a bee goes to honey. It just doesn’t work out like this in the domain sales market.
Quote “Even the so-called domaining gurus like Rick have discreetly and quietly registered over 550 new domain extensions”
So a guy who owns and makes millions invested around $10,000 in the new gTLDs. That’s pocket change for Rick.
I invested in few of them because I couldn’t get the dot com. Had I been able to secure the dot com for a keyword like “Bollywood” and that too for just $8 then I would happily register Bollywood.com. I guess that’s why I make sales month after month after month. I am competing with complete amateurs and ignorant fools.
Pocket change huh. I guess that says a lot about what your understanding of domain investing is.
My understanding of domain investing is just fine. I’m making good money with it.
Get back to me in 20 years and tell me how your new gTLD investment turned out.
Good for you. Thanks for being so honest and frank in your replies. Maybe it’s time you focus on what the content of this post is about. The fact is that Rick, Frank and Andrew are heavily investing in the new TLDs and so are thousands of others. It’s probably time for some of you to wake up and smell the roses. Also, on blogs, it’s often prudent to read between the lines as well. Maturity comes with experience. Truly does. A higher education could help create greater awareness amongst the amateurs and piccolos in this industry.
@Savio
Some big domainers have indeed heavily invested in the new gTLDs (and some other big domainers didn’t) and like I mentioned in prior comments on this post some of those new gTLDS (probably around 1-2%) will have some moderate success. Will those big domainers have success with their investments? Who knows. Some will make money, some won’t. Time will tell.
My question was and still is:
If only 1-2% of all the new gTLDs will be successful would it be, from an investor point of view, wise to be investing in these new gTLDs?
If only 1-2% of all the new gTLDs will be successful would it be, from an end-user point of view, wise to be building a company on these new gTLDs?
Of course you never answered. Instead you posted nonsense like “.xyz will be the extension used by most end users and investors in the future”.
In fact, because of your very first post, where you were comparing the total amount of registrations of one single extension (.com) 15 years ago with the total amount of registrations of all 322 new gTLDS combined today it was clear to me that a lot of what you would say next would be nonsense as well. And I was right.
I answered your question. I guess this is more like a forum than a blog. My mistake. I clearly said that if new extensions were priced lesser, much lesser, then the number of investors and end users who would invest in them would double in a month. I chose .xyz because it’s cheap. Pigeon shit some people I know call it. But for me it’s something that can help me turn $8 into a $80 to $800 return. That’s me. I buy domains every month for $2 to $5 a piece and sell them for $20 to $69. Does that make me a small time investor. Probably does. But then again this is how I do business. I am pretty sure that most of the things I’ve said here are factual and my personal opinion inter-mixed. If you cannot read between the lines and differentiate between the two then it isn’t my fault. Quite frankly, I don’t see the point to these replies. The fact is that the new TLDs create multiple options for everyone – whether investor, reseller, end user or any other Tom, Dick and Harry. The large number of early registrations would have been 5 times more had they priced extensions such as .guru, .expert, .club below $2 a piece.
Scare away the crows. Scare away the domainers.
Domainers complaining that there’s not enough domainers buying the new domains.
It is a good thing for the new gtlds. More domains for the end user, and the end user are the real gold here, for the new gtlds. Domainers are parked pages. Business and other users are trust and advertising.
I think there’s a lot of the new gtld naysayers, buying the new domains in secret.
PS: If you want a new gtld to succeed then leave some for the real users, or try to make some real and useful content on the page. “A parked page is a sick page.”
Appeasing their colleagues and buying a few GTLDs is hardly a strong endorsement,by the Domain sherpas. We are sticking with the .Com Traffic Grid.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Cotact Group) (Metal Tiger) (Domain Master)
Some of you don’t understand the economics of operating a new gTLD
Almost all new gTLD’s registries have a backend provider like centralnic in the case of XYZ or Rightside in the case of Donuts or Neustar in the case of .CLub
They have to pay their backend provider per domain registration $1-$4 per domain so they would lose money if the sold domains for $2.
Moreover what you pay to your registrar is not what they registry gets, registrars are making a lot of money too.
Ferrari would sell a lot more cars if they cost $30K instead of $300K but they would lose money on each car.
@Berkens,
Didn’t you say the Registries were in it for long term? Do you want me to dig up the link?
If they’re in it for long term, what’s a couple of years investing in the thing? They could lose money for the first 5 years, and then thrive, if indeed they were in it for long term.
and Google is going to bring the price maybe down to free which may not be the greatest thing for the domain aftermarket
Personally, I don’t care about aftermarket 😉
I want what’s best for internet, the consumer, the surfer. I rather calm, than chaos; coherence much rather than confusion, and so on…
Registries are in it for the long term.
I personally don’t thinking giving away your product as a loss plus incurring all the other costs and fees, staff and marketing, is a sound business move.
I don’t see any reason to lose money when companies like Donuts are already making money
@Berkens,
“I don’t see any reason to lose money when companies like Donuts are already making money” -MHB
I do see a reason: sustenance, in the sense of subsistence.
Remember, this is just the first year; a lot of the numbers you see for the registrations are shaky. You can’t vouch how those registrations are derived at; besides, in just a couple of months, it will be time for removals, otherwise known as “drops”. There will be a lot of those. Most people who purchased the initial strings, did so due to melodramatic headlines by domain bloggers and so on…
Domainers are temperamental, than God. Expect some sobering up in a couple of months, Berkens.
So, reducing the prices to $2.99 will begin to bring in the masses, the end-users, adoption; this is critical for long term survival. Most registrants can register a dot com from 99 cents to $14 right now. It’s a no brainer, Berkens! Think.
Besides, from experience, registration cost does not deter aftermarket prices. For example, ex.com, or business.com was registered for free in the early days of dot com, as well as many category killers; yet they command millions of dollars in aftermarket.
You see, we don’t have the problem of ‘chicken and egg, which came first?’ here. We do know that a mature, and well used extension is better for aftermarket than an ostentatious but scantily used one.
There are too many new gTLDs. It’s complete madness. Here’s what I think: I believe that the release of so many new gTLDs is a prelude to DOT-LESS internet. In my opinion, in a few years, the gates will be open. There will be a super-domainer. Their name is ICANN. You can register whatever you want. That’s the only thing that makes sense from releasing so many strings. They’ve already stated that there will be thousands of strings. If there will be thousands of extensions, it doesn’t take much to know where we’re heading. Dot-less.
it doesn’t take much to know you have no clue where we are heading.
Try to keep up.
Thanks MHB,
Tug of War Between Domains?
jeff schneider Independent Marketing Analyst/Strategist at UseBiz.com / (.COM ) URL Centric Marketing
Quite possibly there are two camps battling for dominance. One camp is the Traffic camp and the other is the Brand camp. One camp is undisputably key in Online Business Survival (the Traffic camp). The other undisputable key in Online Business is (the Brand camp)
Both camps can be combined into (the winning camp). Simply by owning a (.Com traffic Grid Brand Domain) KISS
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger) (Domain Master)
Hello MHB,
Anyone reading and actualyl understanding the crux of the matter of this Tug of War going on between Branding and Traffic camps, that misses the point, will be totally frustrated in their efforts. Wake up!
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger) (Metal Tiger)
Hello Frank
We can hear your head spinning on how you can recover from the truths of (Tug of War Between Domains)
Even you Frank cannot have it both ways? No answer from you will prove our point.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger) (Domain Master)
Domen
If the renewal rates are really poor than they can always drops prices in future years in the meantime they are banking all cash they can
That’s true.