New gTLD Stats
gTLD Applications By the Numbers:[1][2][3]
- 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[4]
- North America: 911 applications
- Europe: 675
- Asia/Pacific: 303
- Latin America/Caribbean: 24
- Africa: 17
Top Countries[5]
- 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
- 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
- .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