CentralNic Group plc, (LON:CNIC), the internet platform business which derives revenues from the global sale of domain names, has told DirectorsTalk that it is the world’s first Wholesaler (“registry backend”) to achieve sales of four million domain names using new Top-Level Domains (“TLDs”), according to the domain industry statistics website ntldstats.com.
The total number of registrations represents a 33% increase since 15 February 2016, when CentralNic became the first company in the world to achieve three million new TLD registrations.
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As at 0700hrs on 3 May 2016, CentralNic is ranked in the top position, with 4,005,688 domains registered using CentralNic’s registry platform, representing 23.33% of all domains registered globally using new TLDs.
In addition, five of CentralNic’s exclusive TLDs, .xyz, .site, .online, .website, and .space, retain their positions in the top 20 amongst 978 new TLDs launched to date, with .site moving up from the 19thmost subscribed new TLD to the 7th most subscribed TLD.
CentralNic’s Wholesale Division is one of its three growing and profitable business units, which benefit from very strong cashflows, recurring earnings and scalability with relatively fixed costs. Its retail Division was recently enhanced with the acquisition of Instra Group in January 2016, and its Enterprise Division is taking advantage of the increasing role of large corporations in the domain name industry.
CentralNic’s CEO Ben Crawford commented: “Our continued pre-eminence as the world’s leading wholesaler or “registry backend” for new Top-Level Domains is due to several factors. Firstly, we enable our clients to access more retailers than any of our peers, including in the fast growing China market where we are the clear leader among non-Chinese distributors.
“Secondly, the quality of the domains we distribute is second to none. We have a phenomenal portfolio of premium, industry-specific “Dot Industry” TLDs as well as a new generation of generic, value priced domains such as .xyz and .website, which are rapidly increasing in uptake by both small businesses in the emerging world as well as the most successful players in the tech industry.”
