.NYC Report: 3% Of Registrants Own 37% Of .NYC Domains, 36 Registrants Own 8,688 Domains (14%)

This is a follow up to my 1st .NYC report because now .nyc zone is more representative and reflects the true registration patterns of people of New York. There were 13,669 registrants that only bought a single domain. Also 3% of registrants own 37% of all .NYC domains names.

.NYC launched on Wednesday the 8th of October. I wanted to find who bought what domains and how many domain names were bought by each registrant.

.NYC didn’t get the results some people were expecting and people that registered .nyc domains didn’t have very good taste. And it shows.

METHODOLOGY

In the first report I got the first zone file after the general availability to see who bought what domains and how many of them. There were 26,853 registered domains after the first day. Now I got a zone file from the 29th of November, 2014. There are 62,419 domains registered in the second report.

The zone file includes domains registered by the registry for its own use (up to 100), some founder’s domains (up to 100), sunrise domains (368), priority domains (10,506) and domains registered from the first day of general availability up to the 29th of November. I have no way of knowing what percentage of the nearly 20,000 domains that were registered on day 1 were from pre-orders but judging for the Go Daddy market share and other registrars offering pre-orders, I can pretty much say that was at least 75%.

I used the email address to differentiate between registrants. A few registrants might be using different emails but I don’t think that would change the results by much.

FINDINGS

The 62,419 domains were registered by 21,994 different registrants. That is 2.84 domains per registrant. There were 13,669 registrants that only bought a single domain. There were 8,325 registrants that bought more than 1 domains. The single-domain registrants only bought about 22% of the total .nyc domains.

	Registrants	Total Domains	Domains/Registrant	% Of Total
Total:	21994	62419	2.84	100%
1 domain:	13669	13669	1	21.90%
2+ domains:	8325	48750	5.86	78.10%

These are the 1st report results:

	Registrants	Total Domains	Domains/Registrant	% Of Total
Total:	9995	26853	2.69	100%
1 domain:	5898	5898	1	21.95%
2+ domains:	4097	20955	5.11	78.05%

The percentages of the total domains remain pretty much the same. But there are more people that have registered only 1 domain name and at the same time the people that registered more than 1, registered more domains.

A closer look reveals that there were 21,310 different registrants that bought 1 to 10 domain names each for a total of 39,282 domains. That is 1.84 domains per registrant and that means that these roughly 97% of all registrants bought almost 63% of the domains.

Of course there are the 3% of registrants bought 37% of .nyc domains.

I think that the fact that 97% of all registrants bought 1-10 domains shows that New Yorkers bought a fair percentage of .nyc domains. Many people and businesses bought a variation of their main domain name so that is why the domain per registrant average for the 1-10 domain range was on the low side: just 1.84 domains per registrant. As we go up the range, things change dramatically.

	Registrants	Total Domains	Domains/Registrant	% Of Total Domains
1-10 domains:	21310	39282	1,84	62.93%
11-20 domains:	425	6088	14,32	9.75%
21-30 domains:	97	2383	24,57	3.82%
31-50 domains:	86	3305	38,43	5.29%
51-100 domains:	40	2673	66,83	4.28%
101+ domains:	36	8688	241,33	13.92%
Total:	21994	62419

The 1-10 domain percentage of the total domains dropped from 70% to 63% in the couple of months that followed general availability.

The percentage that really jumped was the 101+ domains. It went from 7% to 14%. The number of people owning more than 100 .nyc domains went from 9 to 36 and their average domain name registration number went from 200 to 241.

It seems that a lot of people bought a lot of .nyc domains after the general availability. In my experience most of these people are not domainers. Or at least there were not domainers before .nyc launched. I expect that most of the “late” registrations are from people reading the news about the .nyc launch that rushed to register their business or personal domains.

Of course there were a few domainers that kept registering domains after general availability.

These are the results from the 1st report:

	Registrants	Total Domains	Domains/Registrant	% Of Total
1-10 domains:	9691	18708	1.93	69.67%
11-20 domains:	202	2886	14.29	10.75%
21-30 domains:	46	1168	25.39	4.35%
31-50 domains:	34	1297	38.15	4.83%
51-100 domains:	13	1043	80.23	3.88%
101+ domains:	9	1811	201.22	6.74%
Total:	9995	26853

Here are some more detailed numbers on registrants that bought 1-10 domains:

# Of Domains	Registrants	Total Domains
1	13669	13669
2	3688	7376
3	1542	4626
4	891	3564
5	522	2610
6	348	2088
7	226	1582
8	164	1312
9	145	1305
10	115	1150

TOP REGISTRANTS

There were 36 (actually 34 because 1 of them was the registry and the other was Network Solutions, see below) registrants that bought more than 100 domains each. The top registrant got 657 .nyc domains.

More info on the top 36 registrants coming in a future post.

PROBLEMS

One problem I encountered was Network Solutions and their bad and dangerous habit of putting “no.valid.email@worldnic.com” as the administrative email in whois. 478 domains have this email address.