.Club today reached 104,573 registered domains according to ntldstats.com, that puts the new gtld ahead of the .xxx extension which had an almost 3 year head start.
The .xxx registration numbers stand at just under 104,000 according to Registrar Stats. Out of all the new gtlds currently released ,Dot Club is ranked number one when it comes to fully paid registrations and in third place over all.
Up next for .CLub is .Pro with over 111,000 registrations. We need to compare new oranges to oranges, I think it makes sense for new gtlds to measure their progress vs other alt extensions and stay away from any comparisons to .com.
Congrats to .Club on this milestone.
no doubt .Club has carved its own niche..
as I had mentioned before Europeans are all about “clubs” – not “teams” – just for starters – sports or otherwise.
@Brian Yes but .CLUB is still very much a North American event. It will only be apparent after the Junk Dump (first landrush anniversary) whether .CLUB has managed to carve a niche.
@Raymond It isn’t right , as you pointed out, to compare .CLUB with .XXX as the web usage profiles are different and .XXX is at a different stage in its development. The real measure of a TLD’s success is in usage. Success for .CLUB is going to be more complex to measure as much of its use will be in redirects to the registrant’s primary website in another TLD until the gTLD gains wider acceptance.
John my comments were just on the surface comments about registration numbers, most domain investors are not data scientists like you and I and don’t really care to delve that deep. Most keep score and make decisions sometimes on the registration numbers.
There are so many extensions and so many more coming the usage metrics and other data sets are going to take years to show anything meaningful.
I have spoken to people at companies that have registered new gtlds that plan to do something with them but its not on the agenda for this year.
Yep, Raymond,
Registrations can be a very bad metric. Unless domain investors do their research, they won’t know if the domain counts are rigged to make a desert look like beachfront property.
There are around 340 new gTLDs with available zonefiles at the moment and that should grow as more launch. The problem for the market is confusion. The end-user may not know which TLD to chose and might just opt for .COM as a safe bet. ICANN has even put out and RFP for an economic study into new gTLDs and their place in the market. From reading the documents, they seem to have .COM expectations for how the new gTLDs will compete. If any of the new gTLDs are to become a success, it will be because the end-users find a use for the gTLD and it might be different to what the registries expected.
The ‘wait and see’ attitude seems to be very common with many people in the first year of a TLD’s operation.