New gTLD Stats

gTLD Applications By the Numbers

• Total Applications: 1,930
  • Total Brand Applications: 643 (34% of total apps)
  • Total IDN Applications: 116 (6%)
  • Total Community Applications: 84 (4%)
  • Total Geographic Applications: 66 (3%)
• Total TLDs applied for: 1,409
• Total Applicants: 1,155
• Total identical contentions: 751 (39% of total apps)

Geographic Breakdown

• North America: 911 applications
• Europe: 675
• Asia/Pacific: 303
• Latin America/Caribbean: 24
• Africa: 17

Top Countries

• USA: 884 applications
• Cayman Islands: 91 (of which, 54 were submitted by Uniregistry)
• Luxembourg: 85 (of which, 76 were submitted by Amazon)
• British Virgin Islands: 72 applications (of which, 70 were submitted by Top Level Domain Holdings
• Japan: 71
• Germany: 70
• Gibraltar: 62 (of which, 60 are submitted by Famous Four Media)
• Switzerland: 51

Top Applicants

1. Donuts - 307 applications
2. Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.) - 101
3. Amazon - 75
4. Top Level Domain Holdings - 68
5. Famous Four Media (Domain Venture Partners) - 60
6. Uniregistry - 54
7. Radix - 31
8. Afilias - 31
9. Demand Media (United TLD Holdco Ltd.) - 26
10. Zodiac - 15
11. L'Oréal - 14
12. Richemont DNS Inc. - 14
13. Verisign - 14
14. STRAAT Investments - 13
15. Dish DBS Corporation - 13
16. Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc. - 13
17. Jay Westerdal (Fegistry, LLC & Top Level Spectrum, Inc.) - 11
18. Microsoft - 11
19. Fiat Industrial S.p.A - 10
20. GMO Internet - 10
21. Top Level Design - 10

Most Highly Contested TLDs

1. .app, 13 applicants
2. .inc, 11 applicants
3. .home, 11 applicants
4. .art, 10 applicants
5. .blog, 9 applicants
6. .llc, 9 applicants
7. .shop, 9 applicants
8. .book, 9 applicants
9. .design, 8 applicants
10. .music, 8 applicants
11. .movie, 8 applicants
12. .web, 7 applicants
13. .store, 7 applicants
14. .hotel, 7 applicants
15. .love, 7 applicants
16. .ltd, 7 applicants
17. .cloud, 7 applicants
18. .mail, 7 applicants
19. .news, 7 applicants

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