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