The information on this page is applicable to the 2012 round of the New gTLD Program only. Please go to newgtldprogram.icann.org for information on the New gTLD Program: Next Round.
Current Statistics (Updated monthly)
| Application Statistics: Overview (as of 30 September 2025) | |
| Total Applications Submitted | 1930 |
| Completed New gTLD Program (gTLD Delegated** - introduced into Internet) | 1241 |
| Applications Withdrawn | 646 |
| Applications that Will Not Proceed/Not Approved | 39 |
| Currently Proceeding through New gTLD Program* | 4 |
| Contention Resolution | |
| Total Contention Sets | 234 |
| Resolved Contention Sets | 233 |
| Contention Sets Resolved via ICANN Auction | 16 |
| Unresolved Contention Sets | 1 |
| Applications Pending Contention Resolution | 0 |
| Contracting | |
| Executed Registry Agreements (completed contracting) | 1257 |
| Registry Agreements with Specification 13 | 494 |
| Registry Agreements with Code of Conduct Exemption | 80 |
| In Contracting | 2 |
| Pre-Delegation Testing (PDT) | |
| Passed PDT | 1253 |
| **Breakdown: Delegation Statistics | |
| Delegated gTLDs (Introduced into Internet) | 1241 |
Select Subcategories of Delegated gTLDs (NOTE: gTLDs may fall into more than one subcategory) | |
| Community | 56 |
| Geographic | 53 |
| Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) | 97 |
| gTLD Startup Statistics (as of 2 October 2025) | |
| Sunrise | |
| Completed | 642 |
| In Progress | 1 |
| Not Started | 0 |
| Claims | |
| Completed | 820 |
| In Progress | 175 |
| Not Started | 1 |
Please note: Registry Agreement and Delegated gTLD totals are not adjusted for TLDs that subsequently terminated their Registry Agreements and/or were removed from the root zone. In addition, Specification 13 and Code of Conduct Exemption totals are not adjusted if subsequently removed.
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New gTLD Application Submission Statistics
The statistics in this section were calculated based on applications received by the 29 March 2012 deadline.
Application Breakdown by: Region | Type | String Similarity
Application Breakdown by Region
Statistics as of 13 June 2012
Application Breakdown by Type
Statistics as of 13 June 2012
Application Totals
- Community: 84
- Geographic: 66
- Internationalized Domain Names: 116
- Total Scripts Represented: 12
- Other: 1846
Application Breakdown by String Similarity
Statistics as of 26 February 2013
Approximate Number of Unique Applied-for Strings: 1,400
- Contention Sets
- Exact Match: 230
(two or more applications for a string with same characters) - Confusingly Similar: 2
- .hotels & .hoteis
- .unicorn & .unicom
- Exact Match: 230
- Applications in a Contention Set: 751