Latest update shows 839 registered users for new top level domain application system.
ICANN just updated the stats for the number of registered users in its online TLD Application System (TAS).
As of March 25 there were a whopping 839 registered users.
Each registered user can apply for up to 50 domains, although most of these users probably intend to apply for just one.
Since most applications will come in the final days, and March 29th (tomorrow) is the deadline, we could easily see over 1,000 registered users for the system.
How many applications this translates into is yet to be seen. The general estimate before the application window opened was 1,000 to 1,500. Based on these numbers I think we’ll see comfortably over 1,000 new TLD applications.
How many of these people are after the same tld’s … .web .games etc…
Suckers!
Ron makes an interesting point
if they each spend just one million on the project that’s nearly a billion dollars…they could just buy a .com 🙂
Just wait… 75% of these applicants are applying for a .brand
ICANN is within weeks of pocketing $250 million dollars off of companies that are being forced to pay a .brand ransom fee. (and another $40 million per year after that.) ICANN just became the worlds most profitable non-profit organization based on .brand fraud.
I am guessing only 25% will be for generics like .web and .games. It will be a very newsworthy day when the actual TLDs are revealed and the world sees what is really going on.
And what happens if the IANA contract is not awarded to ICANN? It is extremely concerning this is moving forward when the National Telecommunications and Information Administration has the IANA contract up for bid and ICANN was not awarded the renewal of this contract.
@ ron – many of them will be for duplicates. How many will actually be added to the root will be < # applied for. There will be some tied up in government objections, some duplicates, some withdrawn, etc.
That’s really good news!!! 839 new extensions to remember. I can’t wait!!!
The more applicants the more confusion, hence the more money I will make as a domain investor over the confusion.
I can go buy a ghost town in Utah and jump and down and exclaim, “It’s all mine!!!, but nobody will be there to hear me.
Well, that’s what these brands will have also. They will have their own secure little world with little to no bad activity going on, but who cares if nobody goes there or can even find it? That’s funnier than sh*t.
Big companies are stupid, usually full of stupid people also.
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Hey Andrew….you have a bug I think. I’ve hit reload and it is not going away.
My post is way down the page, separated from the others by about a 10″ space.
Also, in the last month a couple or so of my posts never went through. 🙁
@ John – what browser version are you using?
I’ll check on the comments. Probably in spam.
@ John – huh, that is strange. Not sure what’s going on. Will figure it out.
Not sure why this post is messing up after the 6th comment. Other posts seem to be fine.
I have an old Firefox browser.
Firefox/3.6.28
@ John – it’s not just the browser. Seeing the problem in Chrome too. I think WordPress throws up when it reads your comments 🙂
Seeing the same problem in IE as well. Somehow WP formatted it into a bulleted comment list with a different font style as well.
As for the 839 applicants, the $185K fee refund schedule runs down fairly quickly. Right off the bat, getting a GAC Early Warning notice for problematic applications will lop off 20% off the refund. If applicants get cold feet during the Initial Evaluation process (prior to posting) they can still bail and receive a 70% refund.
After posting of the evaluation, it’s down to a 35% refund. For some TLDs, who might enter into a dispute resolution as a result, the non-winners will finally leave the table with a small parting gift refund of 20%.
… another byproduct of too many extensions, no doubt.
I agree with #2. All are suckers who are about to lose their cyber-shirts.
Don’t say you weren’t warned cuz you were!