Rightside has just published a news release that mentions that .ninja is celebrating its first birthday! With the birthday announcement comes some numbers for the new TLD:
“In the last year, more than 48,000 .NINJA domain extensions have been secured, and 35 percent of domain names point to active websites. .NINJA is one of the top 25 most registered new TLDs and is rapidly growing among marital arts studios, business and creative agencies such as internetmarketing.ninja, a marketing agency out of New York that offers marketing and SEO services, content creation, social media marketing and digital asset creation.” according to the release.
I just did a quick Google search to see how many indexed pages on .ninja domains resides in Google and I was pretty shocked at the amount! 77.8 Million using the hack that I did: site:.ninja
That is a pretty impressive number in a year… Update: if that number was correct. Although Google displayed that amount, I was corrected in the comment section due to a poor use of my search hack. Upon further research, and clicking through 31 pages of results, that is where the results stopped. So there are a little over 300 indexed .ninja domain names.
You can read the full article from Rightside here.
the number of 77,000,000 indexed .ninja sites is wrong. It’s actually just 265. You’ll see that if you go to page 27 of the search results.
I better brush up on my Google search hacks! I was able to get to page 31… but I’m not going to search through 31 pages of search results.. next time. Care to share the correct hack to see the amount of correct indexed amount of gTLD domains without searching through the pages until it ends?
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You clearly do not know how to use Google. Also, tons of redirects from these results.
This would be more convincing if you said just how Google should be used, instead of going, “No, it isn’t!”
For example, searching on site:*.ninja returns “about 882,000 results.” If one modifies the seach string to include “&start=1000” one is told, “Sorry, Google does not serve more than 1000 results for any query. (You asked for results starting from 1000.)” However, “&start=950” works just fine, and sure enough, the hits listed are all for .ninja sites.
Loaszlo Toth, Jr.
Thank you for explaining it further: I used: site:*.ninja + start=950
Which displayed 3,130 results. This resulted in me clicking 10 pages in order to reach “the end”.
Interesting article but according to namebio.com the .ninja extension did not yet get too much appreciation from domain investors. Travel.ninja sold for 2,300 USD and security.ninja 1,525 USD.
I don’t think that the claim of 35% of .ninja domains are pointing to an active website is quite accurate. I might run a full .ninja TLD web usage survey later today to check it.
Also the Google sites: method of “measuring” the popularity of a TLD is in the same category as Astrology.
I think the success of .ninja should not be based on the number of .ninja sites pointing to active websites but on the number of .ninja sites that are active.
I’ve been thinking about getting one for my Tampa SEO company, Ninja Web Services. Still not sure if people would understand that it’s a web address if they saw it on a billboard or something.