Research
Most writing about domain extensions counts registrations. We count what people actually load. These posts are built from the Chrome UX Report, a 36-million-site technology corpus, and the price index behind this site.
- 42.3%of real-world origins are .com
The .com share nobody measures
.com is 42.3% of the 17.6M origins real Chrome users load — and its share barely moves between the top 1,000 sites and the bottom 40 million.
7 minCrUXMarket share - 423delegated TLDs with zero real traffic
423 top-level domains nobody visits
IANA delegates 1,438 TLDs. Only 1,015 have a single origin in the Chrome UX Report. 226 of the empty ones are brand TLDs.
6 minCrUXNew gTLDs - 10.1%of origins sit on 3,078 domains
3,078 domains, a tenth of the web
Counting origins and counting domains give different TLD rankings. 0.02% of domains carry 10% of all origins, and that is where the subdomain platforms hide.
6 minCrUXMethod - 16.4×the renewal multiple on .store
The $2 domain that renews at $30
We joined our daily price index to real-world traffic for 489 priced extensions. The most-used new gTLDs are exactly the ones with the steepest renewal.
6 minPricingCrUX - 8DNS providers, split by extension
Who runs the mail behind each extension
DNS records for millions of measured sites, split by extension. Microsoft, Google and the budget hosts divide the web along national lines.
7 minTechnologyCrUX - +1,538%a number we decided not to publish
How to tell growth from a measurement change
.ir rose 1,538% in four months. It did not grow. Here is the check that separates a real trend from a change in what the instrument sees.
5 minMethodCrUX