16 Months Later .. Total Registrations

[bidawinner]

Jan 2003
21.8 Million .Coms
3.6 Million .Nets
2.4 Million.Orgs
991,000 .INfo
809.000 .Biz
444,000 .US

April 25 2004

28 Million .Coms 33% Growth rate
4.6 Million.Nets 28% Growth Rate
2.9 Million.Orgs 21% Grwoth Rate
1.15 Million .Info 16 % Growth Rate
972,000 .Biz 22% Growth Rate
792,000 .US 78% Growth Rate

*(Note .US Also grew at 65 % Clip from April 2002 to Jan 2003)


These numbers are rounded and rough estimates - fairly accurate though

It's impressive growth overall , I was actually suprised to see .US contining at this pace because it "feels" like it is taking for ever to get there .. but at this rate it should pass .Biz in 4-6 months and .Info withing a year.

And without getting too political . if the world starts even liking us (United States) again ( they dont have to sleep us ..just like us again ) then Dot .US could be next years big discussion.

.com really impressed me , very solid ...com really had a great year after a few dismal years.

I havent checked yet.. maybe someone else has the time ..but I would bet that most all top level .ccTLDS are all seeing growth rates exceeding 30% over the same time period.

 

[skylight]

probably bcos there are many domainer entering the domain industry. not only register domains for marketing, many people realise the potential of traffic domains, that is why catching domain is not as easy as it used to be.

 

[Duke]

Interesting stats Bid. Especially since .info shows the lowest registration growth but is the highest valued new extension (by a long shot). .US has the highest growth rate (by a mile) over any of the six main extensions, yet has the lowest current resale rate. It will be interesting to see if it catches up over the next few months. When did you 2003 reg stats come from?

 

[JuniperPark]

retracted post

 

[seeker]

growth rate and value are not the same IMHO.
Many people looking fpor domains already taken in other extensions might go for another one, so 'they can do their business'. This doesnt necessarily mean the value of the extension is growing as much as the growth rate of registrations.

That said, I agree with Duke about .info

 

[bidawinner]

Right on cue Duke , I was wondering who was going to be first to point that out.

I would also agree .Info certainly is raking in the secondary market sales compared to .Biz or .US .

I'm not sure about that seeker, Part of the problem is that .US has not yet reached that saturation point of roughly 1 million names that would have any value at all..in other words you can still register some good .US names and because of that reality the secondary market sales are held back. ..(This 1 million market is threory I have voiced a few times on board but .US is closing in and I'll bet you start seeing these secondary sales ..one , then 2 etc .. on Dukes site DnJournal as we get closer to that 1 million registrations )..

But there are a lot of other variables, the political scene I mentioned earlier I believe is really a core problem with .US at this stage. But that will pass many dislike the germans politics but everyone loves the beer and brats and watches and vacation places in germany etc.. it's a pretty good size market and eventually people set their politics aside because business is business .DE is an important asset to many many companies ..where are they at 7 million registrations now.. .US will get there ..it's only time . The world has a love hate relationship with the US ..but emotions aside ;they understand this is a global market leader and you'll see many more using dot US as they try be a part of it

Ron , the stats are also from http://www.whois.sc/internet-statistics/ I had printed them out a few times , just for review

 

[guiwang]

I just check at
http://www.whois.sc/internet-statistics/
I saw the number of .us names has down to 756,030...
What happened?

Bean

 

[bidawinner]

I just check at
http://www.whois.sc/internet-statistics/
I saw the number of .us names has down to 756,030...
What happened?

Bean

2 year anniversary.. happend in all the new extensions....people dropping names they bought in the first rush to get names..they kept only their best..

You'll see registrations growing again...takes a few months to bounce back..

 

[Duke]

Yep, same thing happened with biz and info, but both are back on track nad heading north again.

 

[BLazeD]

.info shows the lowest registration growth but is the highest valued new extension (by a long shot). .US has the highest growth rate (by a mile) over any of the six main extensions, yet has the lowest current resale rate.

Well spotted, I'm wondering how long this paradox will take to correct itself

 

[DryHeat]

Well spotted, I'm wondering how long this paradox will take to correct itself

It may not. What I really mean is that while .info is the most well adopted amongst the new tlds its also the extension that lends itself very little, if any, to usage by fanciful made-up names, number-word combos, abbreviations, etc. although it might be better suited than others to be used in hyphenated versions. What this translates into is a relative limited supply of descriptive, meaningful terms that are well suited for .info as compared to other tlds. If this assumption is true then it might also mean that the value of prime keyword names in .info would continue to rise in value more than comparable names in other (new) tlds.

 

[lilian]

Does it mean .info is better than .biz,
and .biz is better than .us?

 

[gogeorge]

Maybe someone could do some supply demand charts for domain names and see if sales did start to increase when one million names are registered in a tld.