We haven’t done a update of the new gTLD program registrations in a while.
According to nTLDStats.com the total number of new gTLD domain registrations just passed 3.3 million.
.NYC has now passed 60,000 registrations and .London has now passed 50,000 registrations
Rounding out the top 10 of all new gTLD’s .XYZ has the most registrations with 729,999.
.Berlin has passed 154,000 registrations
.Club which was one of the earliest contention sets settled by private auction has passed 140,000 registrations.
.Realtor has given away some 86,000 registrations, with still over 400,000 available to Realtor’s.
.Wang has over 85,000 registrations.
.Guru is still adding over 100 registrations a day is now over 77,000 domain names.
.OVH a hosting company, has almost 55,000 registrations after giving out 50,000 free registrations to its customers.
.Photography which was one of the earliest contention sets settled by private auction has over 49,000 registrations.
On the other side of the ledger, 64 fully launched new gTLD extension have between 1,000-2,500 registrations and 30 fully launched new gTLD extension have less than 1,000 registrations.
Remember that each new gTLD have to pay ICANN a minimum fee to ICANN of $25,000 a year plus some other fixed operating costs.
There are another 60 new gTLD’s that have between 2,500 and 5,000 registrations.
At a wholesale cost of $10, there are obviously quite a few registries that appear as they will fall short of their overhead based on current registration levels.
According to namestat.org the number of new gTLD registrations are growing at a rate of over 11,000 domains per day and over 80,000 per week.
Also according to namestat.org:
There are 1,613 gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1 Million
There are 153 new gTLD domain names in the Alexa Top 100,000
3.3Mil.. That was fast! And most of the good ones aren’t out yet !
I think the average namespace will wind up having 10,000 registry reserved names (premiums) so as those eventually get activated, placed-for-free or resold by the sponsoring registries, you’ll see 10 million new SLD’s (domain names) *just* from the registry operators.
Then I’d expect another 20 million in commercial registrant (domainer) business over the next 3 years.
Then another 20-50 million (depending on which strings come out) in new registrant business over the next 5 years
I can hardly believe I’m saying it, but we could have 80 million new domain names across all extensions in less than half a decade.
Remarkable.
Interesting that subdomain/subdomains haven’t been acquired yet on .NYC or .London. I believe subdomains represent another opportunity for the new geos and other tlds which may move the needle farther North than 80 million.
can you clarify? how would sub domains be acquired on .nyc or .london? and why?
As many readers here may already know, you can create subdomains (third level domains) from second level domains. For instance, joes.pizza.nyc (subdomain) can be created from pizza.nyc. The advantage of this approach is that you can squeeze more value out of premium domains at virtually no additional cost. One of the most successful companies using this approach is CentralNIC. It’s possible that certain domains on new gTLDs will be leveraged to that extent. The beauty of this approach is that you don’t have to pay an application fee to launch/create subdomains and you don’t have the other associated ICANN fees. Curious why certain premium domains on city gTLDs are not used in this manner for the benefit of their community. (anyone, please correct me if I’m in error).
hmmm, interesting. I have some premium .nyc it could work on … will think about it.
I see your point, then just go to Joes pizza and tell him i can build your site on domain. Maybe.
This might work on very short extensions. Right now, main pickings are in domain world, but after a year of two, the secondary extension maybe way to go. At the moment no one knows how much value there is in .london or .nyc even in the core domains, let alone in subdomains. It also might take an educated tech consumer, which is minority of general population. Especially when we narrow it down to a city, even as large as nyc.
People i have spoken too, a lot of them have heared of .nyc . There are a lot of promotions for .nyc, i seen it number of times on subway for godaddy and on bus stops from 1and1. Hence we can see that large registrars are investing into promotion. Another thing, go daddy raised price to 40$ for .nyc which is a strange move. I guess they were doing so well, that they realized that demand was insensitive to pricing raise of 15$
I think main reservation and reason for not doing it, is because for .nyc there is a lot of choices that can be used due to the newness of the extension. As time goes on, that might work. We did see nyc.com hawking its email service for ungodly amounts.