The new gTLD Registry, Donuts suffered its first net negative domain day since becoming a registry; where the number of new domain names registered were exceeded by the number of new gTLD deleted or removed from the zone file for non-renewal.
According to ntldstats.com Donuts had a net loss of 63 domain names yesterday on March 22nd.
You can see this by checking out this chart and mousing over yesterday.
Donuts is now reporting its renewal stats on its company blog and updating it daily.
Donuts is reporting a renewal rate of just over 85% which is exceptional, but includes mostly Sunrise and domain names purchase during the Early Access Program (EAP) which logic and experience would tell you would have a much higher renewal rate than a typical domain registration.
Donuts had predicted they would “conservatively predicted an initial renewal rate of greater than 80%”
We disagreed with that prediction in our own 2015 predictions.
I will give Donuts Kudos for making their overall renewal stats public on a daily basis on their corporate blog.
These ntldstats.com stats do not seem to be based on zone files.
I am not sure what they mean and how they are processed.
I think most new gtld extensions are going to succumb to the same fate. Once first released people will try it give it a shot and then a year later say .whatchamacallit what was I thinking. Top companies are not going to use anything other than .com Sorry folks thats the facts. I saw 1 time .buzz on Wheel of Fortune and 2 min later I could not remember the name of the company that used the .buzz ad. Nothing has changed in domaining other than ICAAN is getting rich and investors are buying into penny stock scam domains.
I watched wheel of fortune and saw that 2 second travel.buzz blurb, most people would go to travelbuzz.com, and it was simply a waste of money also. Travel.Buzz has nothing over Expedia, Priceline, Travelocity, Booking.com and X 100 more.
Many got caught up in speculation registrations, those do not get renewed, .club itself had one party who registered thousands of names, some really stupid, will that person throw more good money out the window?
Will the guy holding Nascar.club for hostage at $3500 from Switzerland renew, or drop etc….
I feel these registries had a real chance of building a solid business, but they wanted to do it to quickly, without building a solid eco base of strong holdings. Most startups still desire a .com, and nothing will change, all I can say is .com owners price higher, as it is getting pricey to replace good inventory.
As you know who spent the latter of 2014 buying at Namejet especially .com’s, and generic .net’s, some of the same people rolling out these new TLDS, if they were that bullish they would put those resources into the GTLD’s, but they know what really pays the bills.
I like dot buzz it has its place. Im a. Com guy 90% but would go with travel.buzz its going to happen 🙂
Konstantinos
I agree not exactly sure how these stats are computed but ever blogger, registry and anyone with interest has been using ngtldstats and citing them almost daily for the last year, I’m just trying to remain consistent
I did Tweet that I ran every new gTLD with 5K or less registrations yesterday and they only had 463 new domain registrations among them
There are 168 new gTLD’s with less than 5K registrations, so that is less than 3 registrations per extention
I’m a blogger, and I don’t pay any attention whatsoever to ntldstats 😉
.Com .Net. Org with .Co + .IO are eating up all the competitions.
Kevin
So you don’t cite ntldstats.com in your posts?
I prefer DI PRO numbers for some strange reason. 😉