New gTLD total registrations surpassed 1 million this week with 1,068,354 domain name registrations. In the wake of the .xyz promotional domain name registration scandal, .xyz overcomes .club and .guru on the leaderboard, with 113,242 registrations. The top 10 new gTLDs now are:
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NetSol comprises 96,158 of the total number of new registrations within the .xyz registration, maintaining 84.91% compared with GoDaddy.com’s 5.93%. These statistics still beg the question: Are these numbers inflated because of the complimentary domain name give away?
gTLD news and updates
Since our last blog post, ICANN has only delegated one new gTLD, .global. Though this week has been relatively quiet compared with last week’s 23 delegations, don’t be fooled. The number of new gTLD string delegations may have slowed, but the number of gTLDs launching has not.
The following gTLDs are now in their mandated sunrise periods.
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And the following gTLDs will launch in the second half of June.
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(Read the full list of gTLDs in sunrise).
Open to the public
The following gTLDs have completed sunrise and landrush phases, and are entering general availability in the coming weeks:
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