CircleID has published a review of new gTLDs in the first half of 2016 by Christa Taylor, Taylor specializes in domain consulting and analysis, and heads DotTBA, the company she established in 2012 to provide financial assistance to new gTLD applicants.
The survey was based on an analysis of 426 new TLDs that have been available to the general public for at least 60 days and have had a full renewal period if they had a low-cost/free registration period. Taylor admits that the infographic is less than perfect because of limited transparency and access to all forms of registry data. Nevertheless, the results of this survey are very interesting, as can be seen below.
The average number of registrations per day is 61.3. The average revenue of all gTLDs within the dataset is $405,000, down about 16 percent from December 2015. The top 25 of the 426 TLDs account for almost half of revenues and two-thirds of registration volumes. This group includes .LOAN, .ONLINE, .SITE, .CLUB, .XYZ, .DATE, .AUTO, .TECH and others. According to the infographic, the leading TLDs will continue to increase the gap from the other three tiers. Interestingly, top tier TLDs are shorter in length than any other tier with an average of 5.35 letters.
Taylor has also pointed to a very weak price-volume correlation and offered a somewhat grim outlook: 53 percent of new gTLDs will be operating at a loss for the next year.
