Donuts did something spectacular and attracted the attention of all domain community. Registration renewal figures in the domains BIKE, .CLOTHING, .GURU, .VENTURES, .HOLDINGS, .PLUMBING and .SINGLES are published daily in the Donuts corporate blog. These seven domains were the first ones among all new gTLDs to go into general availability period in January last year. Even though it is impossible to judge how many domains will be renewed only having information about seven domains some conclusions could be made.
According to the data published last morning (this is the most accurate information available), 29262 domains names renewed the registration. 27214 of them were registered during the general availability phase (which is after Sunrise period was over). The renewal rate is 74%. It should be noted that this percentage is slowly getting lower and will keep doing that. This is because each day the number of domain names increases and their registration will require renewal. Nevertheless, so far the renewal rate meets Donuts expectations. The company earlier predicted a 70-75% renewal figures. Moreover, this figure is a good one even for the majority of “the old” domains.
