Radix, the 3rd largest domain portfolio registry in the world, already announced that its new Top-Level Domain (nTLD) , which is .SITE has surpassed 1 million domains under their management. This milestone makes Radix the first nTLD portfolio registry to have two of its Top-Level Domains (TLDs), .ONLINE and .SITE, in the coveted โ1 million clubโ.
With a Year-over-Year (YoY) growth rate of 111% in 2018, the .SITE domain has been among the top three fastest-growing nTLDs globally. It is also currently ranked as the 6th largest nTLD by domain registrations.
Here’s what the CEO of Radix Mr. Sandeep Ramchandani has to said about the latest milestone:
On the same topic, an internal study conducted by Radix shows that over 70% of developed domains on .SITE represent Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) from various industries such as Retail, eCommerce, Information Technology, and Professional Services. Due to the .SITE’s compatibility with Small Medium Businesses’ (SMB), the domain extensionย “business.site” was integrated by Google for its Google My Business (GMB) program for SMBs worldwide. Every SMBs that signed up on the GMB program will be offered a free business.site domain, with their business website appear in the following subdomain format: [BUSINESSNAME].business.site
As of 27th February 2019, a site:business.site search query on Google shows 17.2M web pages on this sub-domain format.
.SITE has consistently grown globally, the top three geographies that have contributed to its 1 million domain registrations are the United States, European Union, and China; a trend commonly seen across the most successful TLDs.
Here’s what Dmitry Deniskin, Vice President of Emerging Markets at REG.RU, said:
.SITE was first launched for general availability in July 2015 and was part of the historic first round of gTLDs approved by ICANN. Since then, .SITE has been growing consistently in registrations around the world.
Contact our sales team todayย and register your desired .SITE domain name now before someone else steals it away from you!
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