Registration Volume of new Generic Top Level Domains October 24, 2014

October 24, 2014 Christa Taylor

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Registration Volume of new Generic Top Level Domains October 24, 2014, there are 428 delegated new gTLDs.

.OOO begins general availability with a whopping 6,348 average registrations per day. XYZ falls into second place with an average daily registration volume of 4,201 (an increase of 489 per day compared to the previous two-week period of 3,712 registrations). XYZ average registration volume includes free registrations. .REALTOR begins general availability with an average of 3,019 daily registrations along with .OVH with 2,663. BERLIN falls by one spot to number four with 691 registrations (an increase of 57 daily registrations from the prior two-week period). .CLUB still holds strong with 601 daily registrations which is also up by 37 daily registrations per day. .LONDON falls two spots but also has an increase of 29 daily registrations for an average of 566 over the prior period. .WANG falls into the eight spot with 513 daily registrations which is still up by 36 daily registrations. .BAYERN is up by 14 daily registrations for a daily average of 467. The final spot is .公司 (.xn--55qx5d meaning ‘business organization’) with a small increase of 5 daily registrations to 448 registrations per day to 443.

Update – see November 7th posting on the registration of approximately 31,000 domain names on October 25th that were reversed on October 24th.

Some other significant increases for TLDs not in the top 10 include .NYC with a daily increase of 119 registrations per day. .city and .lawyer also had a jump to 272 and 254 respectively. This is up from 190 daily registrations for .city and 176 daily registrations for .lawyer. Also, .网址 (meaning business organization) .xn--ses554g increased their daily registrations by 74 to 148 which is a 200% increase over the previous period.

Overall, the last period has shown an increase in each quartile with the highest growth in the first quartile which has increased from an average of 245 registrations per day to 402, an amazing 63% growth. However, the second to fourth quartiles growth was minimal with a daily increase in registrations by one or two. The daily registration average of all gTLDs is 116 up from 76 in the previous period.