329 people have registered for ICANN’s new TLD system.
ICANN has updated its new top level domain program statistics to show that it has 329 registrants for its TLD Application System (TAS).
Each registrant can apply for up to 50 top level domains. So in theory, you could be looking at 16,450 new top level domains.
However, most of these registrants are likely just for one or two top level domains. And not everyone who has registered will end up seeing their top level domain through to fruition. Some will drop out after the list of domains are exposed or due to government complaints. There will also be duplicate applications from competing entities.
It seems that the 1,000 to 1,500 estimate made by a bunch of industry players is still a good guess.
Amadeus says
I, too, want to sponsor a new tld and hereby affirm my committment to the process…
YES, I am interested in trying to get an unreasonable number of suckers to sign up for my silly gtld and in annually charging them far more than the price of a .com.
YES, I am interested in creating a new, longtail tld which will leak traffic like crazy and only help its .COM counterpart.
YES, I am interested in trying to trick investors into believing that hundreds of thousands of idiots (no, wait…millions!!!) will actually want to set up cyber businesses under our .CRAPOLLA tld when history has clearly shown that there is no interest in alternative extensions.
YES, I am interested in offsetting promotional and advertising efforts of each of the Fortune 500 — all of which exclusively use .COM. I acknowledge that I will also need to offset over 20 years of .COM brainwashing and am willing to certify that I have the trillions of dollars that will be needed to successfully do this.
YES, I am interested in obligating myself to an ICANN contract that makes no sense and am willing to blindly support this business which will most likely be hemmoraging money forevermore with no possible exit strategy. I am prepared to go down with the ship and sell blood, sperm and my wife’s jewelry if necessary since bankrupcy can not be an option.
YES, YES, YES…sign me up! I am very interested!