Verisign released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q1 2020. From the looks of the report it was a good quarter for new gtlds. An increase of 3 million registrations over Q4 2019.
NEW GTLD DETAIL
Total new gTLDs (ngTLDs) domain name registrations were 32.3 million at the end of the first quarter of 2020, an increase of 3.0 million domain name registrations, or 10.3 percent, compared to the fourth quarter of 2019. ngTLDs increased by 9.3 million domain name registrations, or 40.7 percent, year over year. The top 10 ngTLDs represented 65.4 percent of all ngTLD domain name registrations.
The first quarter of 2020 closed with 366.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 4.5 million domain name registrations, or 1.2 percent, compared to the fourth quarter of 2019. Domain name registrations have grown by 14.9 million, or 4.2 percent, year over year.
TLD DETAIL
As of March 31, 2020, the largest TLDs were:
Read the full report here
