On its company blog this morning BuyDomains Asks, is the most popular gTLD here to stay?
TLD Overview
(As of July 11, 2013)
All TLDs
145,865,255
.COM
109,598,525
.NET
15,131,258
.ORG
10,343,917
.INFO
6,599,817
.BIZ
2,375,364
.US
1,816,374
“No one could have predicted the success of the .com extension, but compared to other extensions such as .net, .org, and .info,.com domains are far more popular.
However, with the introduction of the new gTLDs to market, there is certainly the possibility of a shift in popularity in the near future.
Today, over 109 million .com domains account for 75% of all gTLDs.
That’s then followed by .net at 10%, .org at 7% and .info at 4%, all significantly less than the .com percentage.
The .biz and .us hardly even make a dent in the total, let alone the other TLDs that are not listed here as the six most popular gTLDs, not including ccTLDs.
So why the overwhelming number of .com domains?
Perhaps all the type-in traffic that the .com extension receives is responsible. More often than not, when someone is searching for a keyword or a particular domain, they are going to assume a “.com” ending. “”
The rest of the post is an ad for BuyDomains.com own inventory but the question of what the effect on the new gTLD’s will be on the value of .com’s and other extensions is one we have been talking about at TheDomains.com for over 3 years.
BuyDomains.com is owned by the Name Media, the same company that runs Afternic.com which has already announced it will be working on several new gTLD strings in partnership with Demand Media’s Namejet.com.
Other companies in the space including Sedo and Godaddy are all looking at new gTLD’s as sources of substantial revenue.
While .com is certainly here to stay its share of overall domain registration is certain to shrink over the next few years
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