Review of Latest gTLD Numbers

[chris]

Michael Berkens has put together a good piece over at TheDomains.com reporting on the stats of the new gTLDs:

The number of new gTLD domain name registrations have topped 5 Million for the first time, according to ntldstats.com
Here are the top 30 most registered new gTLDs:
Domain Total Reg % of all Reg
.xyz 867,598 17.33%
.网址 (xn--ses554g) 349,778 6.99%
.club 204,557 4.09%
.berlin 156,908 3.13%
.wang 138,175 2.76%
.link 105,023 2.10%
.science 100,504 2.01%
.realtor 95,677 1.91%
.guru 83,193 1.66%
.top 81,554 1.63%

These are just the first 10. For anyone interested, the full post (and comments) is worth reading:
http://www.thedomains.com/2015/04/1...ce-link-break-100k-we-break-down-the-numbers/

 

[Data Glasses]

I wonder when we will see the real .xyz figures?

 

[snoopy]

ntldstats doesn't seem to be accurate with deleting names, e.g. .guru shows a drop of a couple of thousand names when it is more like 15,000 names that have been deleted, so I'd say the numbers are too high.

My gut feeling is that paid for ntld numbers are going to be at risk of going into overall decline over the next year.

 

[Data Glasses]

I think it would take years for the true numbers to come out as each new gtld drops from favour another picks up it's slack, let's review in five years