I was looking at ntldstats.com checking out the top registrants of new gTLD’s and of the top 10 biggest registrants of new gTLD’s 9 are from China.
Moreover the top 10 registrants account for over 3.2 million registrations of new gTLD’s.
According to ntldstats.com there are 29,194,819 new gTLD’s registered, meaning that the top 10 largest new gTLD domain owners account for just over 11% of all new gTLD registrations.
The largest holder of new gTLD’s owns almost 2.5% of all new gTLD’s and the top 4 largest account for 7.24%.
In general almost 48% of all new gTLD’s are owned by people from China while 23% of owners use a privacy service.
Registrants from The United States owns 10.5% of all new gTLD’s
The next highest country in terms of owners of new gTLD’s is Germany but the percentage drops way down to just over 2%.
There are 3,118,706 domains listed as upcoming delete so those percentages may change in the near future as well as the top 10 list.
China power
China bubble
The early bird/s catches the worm/s.
When they cut their losses end of this year and rush into the .com safety the second wave will start. Get ready for sharp price increases in 3L and 4Ls
Michael this tells me one thing. The value of both .com and .cn just went up in China.
The Chinese gTLDs are very different in nature and usage to the rest of the world gTLDs. It is not a good thing to group all new gTLDs as a single entity as it leads to incorrect conclusions. Most of these Chinese registrations are heavily discounted and will not renew.
24,925,599 as of April 10th.
https://namestat.org/s/newgtld-summary
I get the feeling they mostly don’t know what they are doing. When they get burnt on ntlds I doubt they are going to be buying .com’s, they’ll probably just stayed burnt.
A lot of heavily discounted Chinese registrations seem to end up not being used for websites or, where they are used, with gambling affiliate lander pages. Web usage and development in these Chinese dominated gTLDs is an issue at the moment and the patterns don’t seem to follow typical gTLD usage patterns. Economically, the full registration fee gTLDs haven’t seen as much Chinese interest as the heavily discounted gTLDs so there is definitely an economic difference between usage patterns. During the CHIPs bubble, a lot of commentators were expecting that things would be different for this bubble and that registrants were in for the long haul. It wasn’t and they weren’t. Chinese registration patterns in the new gTLDs, and also in the legacy gTLDs are more volatile than rest of world registration patterns. There are Chinese .COM registrations and they have similarities to Chinese new gTLD registration patterns.
trust me, china knows what they are doing in the next 10 years china will become the biggest importer of goods produced in the world, it wont be the old china we used to know, there middle class will grow to a staggering number of 500 Million , that’s 3x biggest the current usa middle class economy out performing the middle class anywhere in the world, china are aware that nobody wants to live in a polluted city even if the cheapest apartment in bejin cost 500 000 usd to buy. they going to massively import products and let other country’s smoke up there back yard, .com prices will increase 2500% mark my word, and no im not Chinese or sponsored, i just pay attention
The harder questions to answer would be:
Are Chinese registration numbers higher than we’d expect given China’s size and domain habits? And by how much?
What is the stable long-term registration footprint for China?