In recent weeks .icu and .vip achieved the one million domain names under management milestone making it 7 new gTLDs to currently have achieved the milestone.
For .icu, itâs been a meteoric rise having only launched general availability in May 2018 and reaching one million registrations only 13 months later. Itâs one of the cheaper top-level domains around, but still managed to avoid any drop in total registrations as first year renewals came around.
For .vip, it took just over 3 years to achieve the one million registrations mark and unlike .vip, has had a few dips along the way.
The new gTLDs that currently have more than one million registrations according to nTLDstats are .top (3.474 million), .xyz (2.399m), .club (1.611m), .site (1.568m), .online (1.290m) followed by .icu and .vip. Another to have achieved the one million registrations was .loan, which now has 910,500, but peaked at 2.5 million in May 2018.
For .icu, while registrations have continually increased, itâs also one of the most abused top-level domains according to Spamhaus. In the latest Spamhaus Botnet Threat Update: Q2-2019, .icu is the 16th most abused TLD and is third among new gTLDs with 72 domain names detected. The TLD with the most domain names considered abusive by Spamhaus was .com, with 1,778 followed by .ru with 731.