New gTLDs Pass 700,000 Registrations As .CLUB Debuts With a Bullet At Six

Registrations for new gTLDs passed the 700,000 mark on 7 May as registrations of .club exceeded 25,000 on the first day of General Availability seeing the gTLD debut in sixth place according to nTLDstats.com on their chart of new gTLD registrations.

There were 25,311 .club registrations on its first day of General Availability out of a total 28,245 registrations across all of the new gTLDs that are currently available, including those in their Sunrise periods, taking .club to a total of 25,716 registrations.

The top gTLD by registration numbers remains .guru who continues to widen its lead over the rest of the pack with 55,928 registrations while .berlin remains in second place with 47,639 registrations followed by .photography (34,982), and 在线 (30,955) being the only gTLDs with more than 30,000 registrations.

There are now nine gTLDs with more than 20,000 registrations, 21 with more than 10,000 registrations, 40 with more than 5,000 registrations and 85 with more than 1,000.

One of the reasons for the success of .club is that the cost of registration is cheaper than most of the other gTLDs to launch and there are no restrictions on who can register a domain. The gTLD has also managed to get over 70 registrars around the globe on board to sell their domains and has sold nearly $500,000 in premium names to date.

While initial registrations have been excellent, it remains to be seen if their predictions of one million registrations by the end of year one, and five million by the end of year five, come to fruition. To date most gTLDs have sold most of their domains on the first day and then registrations have flattened out markedly.