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Top-level domains top 500

Kevin Murphy, April 2, 2014, 05:38:41 (UTC), Domain Registries

The number of live top-level domains on the internet has surpassed 500 for the first time.
The delegation yesterday of 12 new gTLDs — .archi, .consulting, .cooking, .country, .fishing, .haus, .商城, .horse, .miami, .rodeo, .vegas and .vodka — tipped the total TLD count to 507.
For the numbers geeks, here are some stats from the DI PRO database:

  • 285 ccTLDs
  • 222 gTLDs
  • 60 IDN TLDs
  • 24 IDN gTLDs
  • 199 gTLDs delegated in the 2012 round
  • 15 gTLDs delegated in previous rounds
  • 8 legacy gTLDs
  • 129 new gTLDs have started Sunrise periods
  • 65 new gTLDs have started Trademark Claims periods
  • 367 new gTLDs have ICANN contracts
  • 1 new gTLD application is still in Initial Evaluation
  • 6 new gTLD applications are still in Extended Evaluation
  • 9.7 new gTLDs have been delegated per week, on average, since January 1, 2014
  • 36 new gTLDs were delegated in March

Based on the rate that Verisign has been adding new gTLDs to the root recently, we should expect that to top 200 in the next few days. The number of new gTLDs could outstrip the number of ccTLDs next month.


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  1. Bart says:

    .fail

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