How Are ICANN’s New TLDs Doing?

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How Are ICANN’s New TLDs Doing?

	By John Levine Author, Consultant & Speaker
	March 16, 2014 Views: 11,003 Comments: 3

ICANN has now accepted several hundred new top level domains (TLDs) and some of them are now open for general registration. I have sized up for zone file access, so I can download daily snapshots of most of the active zones, and I’m making daily counts of the number of names in each zone.

Here’s the 20 largest new zones, and the hundred most popular names in the new zones, as of today. Once have more data, I’ll make up some charts.

zone	zdate	zsize
guru	2014-03-16	43951
photography	2014-03-16	27697
tips	2014-03-16	14719
today	2014-03-16	14602
technology	2014-03-16	10555
directory	2014-03-16	9964
clothing	2014-03-16	8923
bike	2014-03-16	8809
land	2014-03-16	8540
gallery	2014-03-16	8167
estate	2014-03-16	7428
photos	2014-03-16	6673
equipment	2014-03-16	6226
singles	2014-03-16	5884
sexy	2014-03-16	5114
ventures	2014-03-16	4875
graphics	2014-03-16	4181
holdings	2014-03-16	3789
lighting	2014-03-16	3760
plumbing	2014-03-16	3645

count	name
134	nic
94	pdt-dns-test01
78	donuts
46	merck
45	maktoob
45	kindle
43	aws
43	tdameritrade
39	cam4
39	flickr
37	tumblr
35	prime
34	find
34	alfatraining
34	capverde
33	saint
33	bitcoin
33	wny
32	ipmcoinc
32	denizbank
32	kobimeydan
32	finansbank
32	ipm
32	onamae
32	gmo
31	amazon
31	hawaii
31	happy
31	outfitter
31	helloworld
30	canna
30	marijuana
30	aloha
30	toplevel
30	california
30	vipnet
30	optimal
30	cannabis
30	m4m
30	24h
30	247
29	ideal
29	insure
29	perfect
29	losangeles
29	creative
29	korea
29	luxury
29	europe
29	elite
28	excellent
28	austin
28	rightside
28	jesus
28	real
28	newyork
28	awesome
28	russia
28	euro
28	british
28	trade
28	seattle
28	chicago
28	linkedin
28	melbourne
28	longisland
28	holland
28	mackinacisland
28	hemp
28	canadian
28	sky
27	want
27	theladbible
27	ladbible
27	irish
27	mackinaw
27	toronto
27	australian
27	miami
27	billericay
27	america
27	dubai
27	amazing
27	app
27	modern
27	fire
27	german
27	ottawa
27	hollywood
27	england
27	five
27	better
27	aussie
26	seo
26	russian
26	texas
26	saudi
26	420
26	boston
26	boat
26	social
26	worldwide
26	safe
26	808
26	buyoo
26	thebest
26	green
26	fast
26	montreal
26	thai
26	taiwan
26	utah

By John Levine, Author, Consultant & Speaker

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unsure if this is a positive or Marc Lampo – Mar 16, 2014 10:04 PM

unsure if this is a positive or negative message.

Take the label “flickr” in several top level domains (guru, photography, tips). Each time the cachine name server returns “SERVFAIL”. In each case delegation is towards ns?.yahoo.com. but those name servers refuse queries for flickr.

—> looks like DNS just got extended with a lot of ill managed domains.

And try http://www.canadian.estate on a smartphone (and probably iphone/ipad as well)—> welcome on a search page result !
(try about any name in a new tld on a mobile device, for that matter ...)

Can’t image why anybody would want to pay for this ...

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understanding the data Thomas Barrett – Mar 17, 2014 1:20 PM

John,

It is worth pointing out that these new TLDs are at different points in their start-up lifecycle.

for example: the “nic” domain is an indicator of how many TLDs have been delegated into the root zone.

the “merck” domain is a good indicator of how many TLDs have completed their sunrise period, since dueling trademark owners are snapping these up for every TLD.

It would be interesting to normalize the data around common milestones.

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You're right, but I don't know of John Levine – Mar 17, 2014 1:39 PM

You’re right, but I don’t know of a mechanical way to find out the status of each zone.

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