As of Friday’s evening of August 29, the number of registrations in the new gTLD .club has reached 98984. Taking into account that 250-300 names are registered in the domain each day, we can suppose that it is going to reach a landmark of 100 thousand registrations any day now. Domain .club is lagging behind the leaders .xyz and .berlin (460.000 and 130.000 registrations respectively) by this indicator. However it is very important to remember that unlike .xyz and .berlin domain .club is doing good without generous promotions and free giveaway of names. Thus, its indicator can be considered the first “honest” hundred thousand registrations among new top-level domains.
Period of general availability in .club zone has started May 7, and it took 116 days for a domain to reach 100 thousand names.
Coordination Center pays close attention to what happens on the New gTLD market. “Success of the .club domain clearly shows that the interest in new domains is serious among the users. 100 thousand registrations “honestly” received, without any marketing tricks, is a very good indicator that the gTLD is going to survive. Obviously, the real result will be seen at least in a year, when the time comes to renew registered domains. But even now it is clear that the program of new gTLDs has boosted the whole world domain market”, said Andrei Kolesnikov, CEO at Coordination Center.
