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Namecheap
Domain Insights and Trends Report,
this week. The report was designed
to provide some unique
insights into the domain
industry for business owners,
developers, entrepreneurs and
technology analysts.
Based on proprietary NameCheap data (collected over the the past decade)
that encompasses registration
activity among millions of their
customers, the report breaks out
NameCheap's Top TLDs of The Year
in Many Categories, Most
Popular TLDs Around The World, Top
ccTLDs, Trending Business
Industry-Specific TLDs and
more.
The
report also includes the most
popular TLDs at NameCheap so far in
2018. Those are:
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gTLDs |
ccTLDs |
| 1.
.com |
| 2. .info |
| 3. .club |
| 4. .org |
| 5. .site |
| 6. .net |
| 7. .online |
| 8. .website |
| 9. .space |
| 10. .app
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| 1.
.us |
| 2.
.co |
| 3.
.pw |
| 4.
.io |
| 5.
.me |
| 6.
.co.uk |
| 7.
.ca |
| 8.
.de |
| 9.
.ai |
| 10.
.eu |
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The
report noted, "It’s no
surprise .com is still far
and away the most registered
top-level domain (TLD) in 2018, but
this year Namecheap saw more non
.com registrations than ever before.
There has been a surge in popularity
among some newer generic top-level
domains (gTLD) like .club, .space,
.online and .app as
Namecheap’s large customer base of
web and technology professionals,
business owners and entrepreneurs
are launching more active domains
utilizing these newer extensions.
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One
of the biggest surprises to
me is seeing .net
ranking as only the 6th most
popular gTLD at Namecheap.
Globally, in terms of total
registrations, .net is
second only to .com in the
gTLD category.
I
was also surprised to see
America's under utilized .us
country code as the most
popular ccTLD at Namecheap.
ccTLDs like Germany's .de
(over 14 million registered),
Great Britain's .uk
(over 10 million) and even
smaller U.S. neighbor
Canada's .ca (over
2.6 million) have
outperformed .us (a
little over 1.9 million).
Perhaps this is a sign .us
is finally starting to gain
a little more
traction. |
The
2018
Namecheap Domain Insights and Trends
Report also includes:
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The
Most Registered TLDs of the
Decade
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Most
Popular TLDs By Category
(Technology, Lifestyle, Finance,
Sports, Travel, Food &
Beverage, Real Estate,
Multi-Media and more)
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Top
3 Non .com TLDs Around The Globe
Since 2017
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Trending
2018 Industry-Specific TLDs
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Domain
Ownership Data; and more.
You can Download
the full report to see
look further into those topics.
Namecheap said that certain TLDs
were excluded from some data results
but each list includes any such TLD
exclusions as well as the time
periods covered by the respective
list.
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(Posted
October 12, 2018) |
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