Politics and new gTLDs: 2019 in review

I was first wondering if I would do a single publication for Politics and Legal new gTLDs but since I just learnt that am stuck home due to the Coronavirus' French containment - and it appears that it is going to last for the next 45 days - let's say that...I have time in front of me...

Political new gTLDs
I was already asked twice that question: "what do you use registrations and creations?" Well, this is a very good question because some domain names are not "bought" but they can be created by the registry. Some Premium domain names for example are created but they don't belong to a Registrant (yet) but to the Registry who tries to sell them.

I listed twelve Political new gTLDs and here is what I noticed in 2019:

• Two have more than 10,000 domain name created: .GURU has 55,680 and .BEST has 86,600. At the moment I am writing these lines, the .BEST new gTLD should approach the 100,000 creations;
• Three strings are very close one to the other: .VOTE - .VOTO and .VOTING can create lots of confusion to Registrants (domain name owners) who would want to build a website around the subject. I would personally register all three of them and use the .VOTE new gTLD since it is the word used in several languages. Two of these strings are stagnating and .VOTING lost half of its registrations since January 2019.
• Three of these TLDs have a negative meaning: .GRIPE - .FAIL and .EXPOSED. This is why I added them to this report. All have their registrations to decline in volume and all are below 5,000 domain names. I did not add the .SUCKS new gTLD. It was added to the Adult new gTLD report.
• Three other Top-Level Domains are seriously political and represent two political parties. None has more than 1,500 domain names created:
• .DEMOCRAT (volume of domain names has declined since January 2019);
• .REPUBLICAN (volume of domain names has declined since January 2019);
• .GOP (volume of domain names has stagnated since January 2019 for a total of 1,146 domain names in December).
• Five Top-Level Domains on a total of twelve had more registrations in December than in January. The .GIVES new gTLD is one of them with...1,774 domain names created in December 2019.
• The only political new gTLD to have "exploded numbers" is the .BEST new gTLD which started 2019 with four thousand registrations only and ended it with more than 80,000 !
• I wonder how long it takes for American political parties to clearly identify under a .DEMOCRAT or a .REPUBLICAN

Read the full report here.

Coming: "Legal new gTLD: 2019 in Review"

New gTLDs for Luxury: 2019 in Review

Did you know that there is a domain name extension ending in ".rich" (for the rich I guess)? Well there is one and 100 domain name were registered end of December 2019. Fantastic isn't it? I went to my new Registrar GoDaddy - GoDaddy, which just acquired my actual Registrar Uniregistry - and I had a look at the price of a .RICH domain name: more than €3,000 a piece. That's a lot, but let's imagine that these 100 domain names were registered by real end users (Registrants); that makes €300,000 a year...not bad for 100 domain names only.

There are 28 domain name extensions belonging to Luxury and here is what I noticed for the year of 2019:

• Six extensions are for automobiles: .LIMO (for Limousine) is ont of them and the five other are luxury car trademarks (.LAMBORGHINI - .FERRARI - etc...);
• Twelve from that list are live .BRANDs (.OMEGA - .CHANEL - etc...);
• Four were withdrawn since the launching of the first ICANN new gTLD round and actually two of these were withdrawn in 2019: .CARTIER and .PIAGET
• The only IDN from that list is the Chinese version of .SHANGRILA (which also exists in ASCII);
• One extension has more than 1 million domain names created: .VIP and second from that list is .BEST with 86,000 domains created and third is .LUXE with 15,000. The rest is below 10,000 registrations.
• From that list, one extensions multiplied its registrations by 18 since January: the .BEST extensions is growing seriously.
• Three extensions had less registrations in December than January: .GOLD - .JEWELRY and .DIAMONDS (that is not so good).
• Two Registries maintained significant registration levels throughout 2019: .BEST and .LUXE (French for "luxury").
• One person registered its personalized Top-Level Domain: Richard Li created the .RICHARDLI new gTLD but still does not use it and the Registry sticks to one single domain name creation (since the launching of the ICANN new gTLD program).
• Most Luxury Trademarks, but in the automobile luxury industry, don't use their dotBrand extension: the .GUCCI is on top of that list with six domain names created in total. The rest is below.
• Some TLDs from that list are for sale, contact Jovenet Consulting if interested in making an offer.
• The .HILTON withdrew its application long ago and this move, well...I still don't understand it.

Read the full report here.

Coming: "New gTLDs for the Music: 2019 in Review"

.GOLF new gTLD is 1 of 8 new Sunrise Periods to have started

New Sunrise Periods have started for:

1. .FAITH new gTLD;
2. .DATE (.DATING new gTLD is launched already);
3. .REVIEW (.REVIEWS is launched already);
4. .GOLF (The sport);
5. .TOURS (Nothing to do with the French city of Tours);
6. .PLUS;
7. .GOLD;
8. .MOVIE (.FILM new gTLD to be launched soon).

Expect five more Sunrise Periods to be launched in May 2015: .BANK - .MARKETS - .SITE - .CAFE - .EXPRESS new gTLDs.

Source: http://trademark-clearinghouse.com/gtld-calendar.

So you like Golf? Why not consider registering Golf.club too?