DomainPunch’s latest tool is eye-opening.
There are a lot of new top level domain names out there. Most of them grow by a dozen or so registrations every day.
Now that the brand protection and investor rush is over, who is registering these domains?
Here’s a quick and simple tool from DomainPunch to see domain names that were added to the zone files the previous day. It’s pretty interesting.
I used the tool this week to investigate what types of domains people are still registering in .NYC. People registered Arthritis.nyc, Psychotherapy.nyc and Psychology.nyc this week, which seem like great domains to have still been available.
Take a look at the .photography adds and you’ll see a pattern of firstlastname or small photography companies: philiphunton.photography, musclebear.photography, anthonykirk.photography.
Here are some others:
.Today: Beachlife.today, FitnessNews.today, Ginger.today
.Buzz: Caffeinated.buzz, FloridaMarijuana.buzz, Javascript.buzz
.Rocks, now more popular than .ninja: BarefootYoga.rocks, MedicalPot.rocks, DiscJockey.rocks
.Audio – HighFidelity.audio, Microphones.audio, Vocals.audio
.Events – Hiphop.events, Maker.events, Rap.events
I had fun playing around with the tool and seeing what people are registering.
These are priority auction domains:
Arthritis.nyc
Psychotherapy.nyc
Psychology.nyc
Along with pot.nyc, mvp.nyc and several others.
I figured Pot.nyc was, but when I looked these up they showed they were just reg’d. Is there some way in the whois record to see this?
There are some 840 domains that were originally in the nyc zone file but now missing. Some of them look like premium domains, but many are 2, 3 or 4 word combinations.
Andrew,
I think this is a great tool for domain investors to check out the quality of registrations that each TLD is registering. At .CLUB we have done our best to stop spammers or phishers from registering unintelligible domain names. Generally when we see a domain that is made up of random characters we are concerned and contact the registrar. Random character domain names are not going to add usage and simply increase the churn rates. And will affect that TLDs brand.
Check out the quality of the names. In two seconds of scanning each TLD you can see which TLDs really are registering real names that have a lasting impact.
Andrew, it would be interesting to see if someone where also to compare the names being registered with those of the .COM base to get a sense of quality as well. Although, I have seen names registered in .CLUB and used that are not in .COM but generally that is the exception.
Regarding comparing to .com, I think it depends on how you look at it.
If you compare the entire string to .com, e.g. somename.club vs. somenameclub.com, I’ve found a surprising number aren’t registered in .com. I actually haven’t look at this for .club specifically, but have compared EAP registrations in Donuts domains and found a good 20%-60% aren’t reg’d in .com.)
If you compare somename.club to somename.com, then most are registered.
You should do a better job with names such as nascar.club, has no business being in a Switzerland addressed individual account.
All gtlds are slashing prices, as after launch week, the follow thru becomes anemic. I wouldn’t worry to much, with more supply than demand pricing is going to come down by facts of 2x 3x current levels in the near future.
The quality of many of these registrations is absolutely horrible. I’m seeing domains over 10 characters in length (many even much longer), in new gTLDs which were positioned as a means to get much more desirable (e.g. shorter) domain names. There are many 3 word domains. Some of these domains even have hyphens! Perhaps some of these horrible domains were sold as bundles with freshly-registered .com domains (in which case the new gTLDs will probably get dropped when it comes time for renewal). A horrible dot-com is still better than a horrible new gTLD domain.
I’d suggest that DomainPunch add a column for domain length, and allow people to sort by any column (most libraries have sortable tables built-in). Then, sorting from shortest to longest domains, people’s eyes won’t be bleeding as much……(unless they scroll down to the longest domains at the bottom of the list).
Sure, I will add a domain “length” column with sorting support.
Anil, I like your project however I do have reservations on the idea of “privacy” as it pertains to democratic ideals. I think people are having a hard time dealing withs spammers as is and by taking away their right to some sort of privacy i.e., you’re making it easier for spammers to find names and emails.
The tool would be indeed useful if you could remove the names and the email addresses of the buyers as its non of our business what they buy but rather what is being bought..I know the curios type would otherwise find that information in the whois record but then its a bit of work they have to do. Just my thoughts.
You do realize that the tool is not displaying any emails or other personal data, right? It was just linking to a well known third party site. Anyway I also got a few emails about this, so I have removed the whois button links for now.
Please refresh your browser if you see empty columns.
Yes, I don’t think anyone is going to take the time to click through the whois link and spam someone. If they do, it will be quite cumbersome. All of the spam you get after registering a new domain name is from people who do bulk downloads of whois data. If they do want to send individual emails based on this site, they can just copy and paste them into whois even without the whois link.
Thanks for removal who is, ya , i was about to mention. If people want to find out, let them look it up.
I’m sensing the issue with the whois link was more of a concern by people of others finding out their registration ideas?
Thanks for adding the length column so quickly.
No Problem… BTW, the sorting option was already there. You can click on any column header to sort.
Desirable does not always mean shorter or less than 10 characters. Indeed, in some of the city TLDs, a domain longer than 10 characters can easily be a category killer.
The key issues are the domain being meaningful and memorable; if it’s shorter as a consequence, then great.
Both this tool and registered.today show the varying degrees of ingenuity and creativity of mankind. Some people register worthless domains EVEN when premium domains are still yet to be registered.
Ya, people over focus on shorter. But if its location name somewhere in new york, it naturally will be longer. But as long as its relevant and generic and searched, it should still have significant value.
It really highlights what is being registered in .XYZ, I mean 00000000000000000000.xyz?
Looks like someone is simply bulking registrations to maintain a 22% market share
Great site! Ya, a lot of them are from the auctions. If you something unusually good, 99% chance its from the auction.
Basically the same thing http://registered.today does.
One day at a time is fine, but how can one get a list of registered domains by extension? (That is, an aggregation of the daily data for each extension).
Comment deleted. I will not allow promotion of services that sell entire whois databases, which are primarily used for spamming people.
You can download the zone files to get a list of all registered domains.