New gTLDs

These are the HosterStats comments on the ICANN Consumer Choice and Trust draft report. The comments deal with the “parking” section where the ICANN CCT tried to understand what was going on with new gTLD and legacy gTLD web usage. The CCT review team did not understand the complexities of measuring web usage in...
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Since HosterStats.com began tracking the TLDs in 2000, there were over 160.54 million deleted .COM domain names. The current number of active .COM domain is 114,440,467. Many people think of the .COM TLD, and indeed other TLDs, as being monolithic and rarely changing. The reality is that thousands of domain names are registered each...
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The monthly growth in .COM TLD during 2014 is lower than that of 2013. The .COM growth figures published by HosterStats.com show that while growth in .COM is still positive, it has slowed compared to other years. It has been suggested that the launch of the new gTLDs is responsible for this slower...
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AFNIC, the French ccTLD registry, published an article on applying the 50:50 law to new gTLD launches. Basically the law has to do with the number of registrations that a new TLD gains on the first day of Land rush being 50% of the domains that the TLD will achieve in the first month...
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In what must rank as the most effective action by a new gTLD registry yet, the .BERLIN zonefile was down by 3105 domains this morning. It wasn’t just housekeeping. Some hosters that had particular domain names in yesterday’s zonefile do not have the same domains in this morning’s zonefile (the domains having been deleted)....
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HosterStats has compared the domains of all new gTLDs against the equivalent in COM/NET/ORG/BIZ/INFO/MOBI/ASIA to see what keyword patterns are present. These TLD comparisons show the DNA of a TLD and DNA of .xyz new gTLD is rather odd when compared with the TLD DNA of other new gTLDs such as .club and .guru....
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