New gTLDs : James is doing good...but not only

I like to refer in terms of volumes and recently noticed that the .BOND new gTLD has 544,071 domain names created in its root. Yes : more than 500,000 domain names ending in ".bond" instead of ".com" or any other extension. On the list of all new gTLDs from Round one of the ICANN new gTLD program, it stands in place 15 : not bad.

If I wonder who uses these domain names and what for, I also noticed that most other TLDs from this multiple registry seem to follow the same strategy : "volumes".

The interesting thing I see here is that Shortdot SA, which owns other Top-Level Domains (.CFD, .SBS, .ICU and .CYOU has all ot its TLDs listed in the TOP 30 of new gTLDs in volumes. At the moment I am reading the numbers, here is what I read :

1. .CFD : 1,020,525 domain names.
2. .SBS : 803,335
3. .BOND : 554,071
4. .ICU : 509,016
5. .CYOU : 261,228

ShortDot SA has a total of 3,148,175 domain names created.

786 .BRAND domains were created in 2022

 New .BRAND domain name creations kept increasing since January 2022:

1. January 2022: 18,289
2. February 2022: 18,320 (+31)
3. March 2022: 18,375 (+55)
4. April 2022: 18,449 (+74)
5. May 2022: 18,674 (+225)
6. June 2022: 18,741 (+67)
7. July 2022: 18,833 (+92)
8. August 2022: 18,894 (+61)
9. September 2022: 19,036 (+142)
10. October 2022: 19,067 (+31)
11. November 2022: 19,025 (-42)
12. December 2022: 19,075 (+50)

TOTAL for 2022: 786

All reports are updated at the end of each month in the "new gTLD reports" section of Jovenet Consulting.

140 more "dotBrand" domains created in June 2021

New .BRAND domain name creations have increased since January 2021:

1. January 2021: 16,075
2. February 2021: 16,864 (+789)
3. March 2021: 17,111 (+247)
4. April 2021: 17,245 (+134)
5. May 2021: 17,404 (+159)
6. June 2021: 17,544 (+140)
7. July 2021: coming

All reports are updated at the end of each month in the "new gTLD reports" section of Jovenet Consulting.

New gTLDs for City Names in November 2019

I quite like city names kind of new gTLDs, I mean by this, the name of a city as a domain name extension. There are 45 of them: one which was supposed to be withdrawn but which is still delegated: the .DOHA new gTLD, two that are not "official" city new gTLD names but which still are name of famous cities: the .TOURS and .SPA domain name extensions, and two more that I added to the list which are: .CITY and .TOWN Top-Level Domains.

What do you see: blue or red?
I hear everywhere that "geographic" new gTLDs are a success, well...even if I am certain that they are a great tool, it is not what the numbers say. The global table (the report) containing all monthly figures from 2016 to 2019 become more and more red. It means that most registration figures tend to decrease month after month in general, and this starting 2016, except for a few cities.

Some cities are in the blue
On the total list of extensions, some remain stable  and their registration figures tend to increase slowly month after month. In the order, these TLDs are:

1. The .NYC new gTLD for the city of New-York (USA);
2. The city of Paris and its .PARIS (France);
3. The .TOURS but this one is not a city name only but an English word with a total other meaning (France);
4. The .MIAMI extension (USA);
5. The .BRUSSELS extension (Belgium);
6. The .GENT (Belgium);
7. The .KYOTO (Japan). Note that starting from here, domain name registrations are below the thousand;
8. The .OSAKA (Japan);
9. The .MADRID (Spain);
10. The .STOCKHOLM (Where it is always cold).

All other cities are neither stable nor seeing increase of domain name registrations on the long run. Note that the ICANN new gTLD program, even if "launched" in 2012, is almost unknown to many users and I would say that the reason of these poor numbers is here. Now, would there be a massive communication campaign about new gTLDs, I doubt this would make a big difference: companies don't change their domain name and a local business - even if local - does not want to limit its business to the city where it is based. There are interesting usage models to imagine here ;-)

ICANN new gTLD Application Statistics

This is the Overview as of 30 November 2018 (last ICANN update):

• Total Applications Submitted: 1930
• Completed New gTLD Program and Delegated (introduced into Internet): 1232
• Application Withdrawn: 620
• Applications that Will Not Proceed or Not Approved: 46
• Currently Proceeding through New gTLD Program: 32

Note that this page should be updated soon (since we are now in January 2019).

Readers will also be interested in checking:

• Contention Resolution;
• Contracting;
• Pre-Delegation Testing (PDT);
• Breakdown: Delegation Statistics;
• gTLD Startup Statistics.

Diggers, interested in "things about the ICANN new gTLD program" will also be interested in finding all bookmarks related to it on Jovenet.link

3 new gTLDs for "game"

There are 3 new generic Top-Level Domains for the sign "game":

1. The .GAME new gTLD;
2. The .GAMES new gTLD;
3. The .游戏 (.game) new gTLD.

These 3 new gTLDs appear in the SPORT new gTLD report.

Visibility for new gTLDs

These are this morning's stats for gTLD.club, just before my latest publication.

I still don't understand these stats: why are they greater in the middle of July?

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