New gTLD Stats
gTLD Applications by the Numbers[edit | edit source]
- Total Applications: 1,930[1][2][3]
- 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)
- Withdrawn applications: 71[4]
- Rejected applications: 1
- Application change requests: 424+
- Processed & approved application changes: 54+
Top Applicants[edit | edit source]
- Donuts - 307 applications
- Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.) - 101
- Amazon - 75
- Top Level Domain Holdings - 68
- Famous Four Media (Domain Venture Partners) - 60
- Uniregistry - 54
- Radix - 31
- Afilias - 31
- Demand Media (United TLD Holdco Ltd.) - 26
- Zodiac - 15
- L'Oréal - 14
- Richemont DNS Inc. - 14
- Verisign - 14
- STRAAT Investments - 13
- Dish DBS Corporation - 13
- Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc. - 13
- Jay Westerdal (Fegistry, LLC & Top Level Spectrum, Inc.) - 11
- Microsoft - 11
- Fiat Industrial S.p.A - 10
- GMO Internet - 10
- Top Level Design - 10
Most Highly Contested TLDs[edit | edit source]
- .app, 13 applicants
- .inc, 11 applicants
- .home, 11 applicants
- .art, 10 applicants
- .blog, 9 applicants
- .llc, 9 applicants
- .shop, 9 applicants
- .book, 9 applicants
- .design, 8 applicants
- .music, 8 applicants
- .movie, 8 applicants
- .web, 7 applicants
- .store, 7 applicants
- .hotel, 7 applicants
- .love, 7 applicants
- .ltd, 7 applicants
- .cloud, 7 applicants
- .mail, 7 applicants
- .news, 7 applicants
Top Registry Services Backend Providers[edit | edit source]
- Neustar - 353 applications (18%)[6]
- Demand Media - 334 applicantions (17%)
- Afilias - 305 applications (16%)
- Verisign - 236 applicants (12%)
- ARI Registry Services 160 applications, (8%)
- Google - 101 applications (5%)
- Minds + Machines - 87 applications (4%)
- CentralNic - 60 applications (3%)
- ISC - 58 applications (3%)
- KSregistry - 27 applications (1%)
- GMO Registry - 27 applications (1%)
- KNET - 23 applications (1%)
- CORE - 23 applications (1%)
- OpenRegistry - 21 applications (1%)
Geographic Breakdown[edit | edit source]
- North America: 911 applications[7]
- Europe: 675
- Asia/Pacific: 303
- Latin America/Caribbean: 24
- Africa: 17
Top Countries[edit | edit source]
- USA: 884 applications[8]
- 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 were submitted by Famous Four Media)
- Switzerland: 51
Applications were received from 60 countries.[9]
IDN Breakdown[edit | edit source]
- Total applications in Chinese scripts: 73
- Total applications in Arabic: 15
- Total applications in Japanese: 9
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Inforgraphic, News.Dot-Nxt.com
- ↑ Statistics, NewgTLDs.ICANN.org
- ↑ As Many As 1409 Top Level Domains On The Way, DomainNameWire.com
- ↑ http://domainincite.com/13285-todays-new-gtld-withdrawals-play-and-design Todays new gTLD Withdrawals Play and Design, DomainIncite.com] Published & Retrieved June 5 2013
- ↑ Announcement 6 Mar 13, NewgTLDs.ICANN.org Retrieved 7 March 2013
- ↑ The Registry Back End Numbers Are In, DomainIncite.com
- ↑ Statistics, NewgTLDs.ICANN.org
- ↑ Countries, DotWhat.co
- ↑ New gTLDs by The Numbers, TheDomains.com
- ↑ Analysis of IDN New gTLD Applications, CircleID.com
- ↑ Statistics, NewgTLDs.ICANN.org