The 20 top level domains with the most page results in Google:
| .com | Commercial | 4,860,000,000 |
| .org | Noncommercial | 1,950,000,000 |
| .edu | US accredited postsecondary institutions | 1,550,000,000 |
| .gov | United States Government | 1,060,000,000 |
| .uk | United Kingdom | 473,000,000 |
| .net | Network services | 206,000,000 |
| .ca | Canada | 165,000,000 |
| .de | Germany | 145,000,000 |
| .jp | Japan | 139,000,000 |
| .fr | France | 96,700,000 |
| .au | Australia | 91,000,000 |
| .us | United States | 68,300,000 |
| .ru | Russian Federation | 67,900,000 |
| .ch | Switzerland | 62,100,000 |
| .it | Italy | 55,200,000 |
| .nl | Netherlands | 45,700,000 |
| .se | Sweden | 39,000,000 |
| .no | Norway | 32,300,000 |
| .es | Spain | 31,000,000 |
| .mil | United States Military | 28,400,000 |
About The Author: John Colascione is Chief Executive of Internet Marketing Services Inc. He specializes in Website Monetization, authored a ‘how to’ book called ‘‘Mastering Your Website’, and is a key player in several Internet related businesses through his search engine strategy brand Searchen Networks®
GoBuy says
January 12, 2017 at 10:54 amWhat I see on this list is all the old TLD’s and ccTLD’s. No new TLD’s listed, not even .info or .biz. What I found very interesting is listed number 12 is .us which is undervalued and a ccTLD that has very many available domains for hand register and some of the more valuable one word .us domains are for sale at low prices.
John Colascione says
January 12, 2017 at 10:58 am@GoBuy, I actually created this run down in May of last year but i also agree that .us is undervalued. There are some big changes potentially coming to .us too, which could make it a great time to hand reg some good ones as you mentioned. https://www.strategicrevenue.com/comment-period-closing-on-us-premium-domain-name-and-privacy-plan/
Jean Guillon says
January 12, 2017 at 1:02 pmI am impressed by the number of legacy .MIL domain names in use.
Which method did you use?
John Colascione says
January 12, 2017 at 11:13 pm@Jean Guillon:
Page 10 of a Report from the ICANN, Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), June 2006
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/renewal-advisory-29jun06-en.pdf
EM@MAJ.COM says
January 12, 2017 at 1:05 pmThis is reality, Why create your business domain in un-popular extension.
Build in dot com, buy the other extension to redirect for defensive registration.
Cheers,
EM@ MAJ.com
Martin says
January 12, 2017 at 2:14 pmI presume you did searches like site:com in google. to get these results.
Also I assume the search was done in the US. The search were done elsewhere in the results would probably have been different.
John Colascione says
January 12, 2017 at 11:16 pm@Martin, I actually had used a list in an ICANN document,Page 10 of a Report from the ICANN, Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), June 2006, https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/renewal-advisory-29jun06-en.pdf
W.A. says
January 21, 2017 at 7:50 pmNow that you’ve published the 20 Top Level Domains as per Google, I challenge you to use your influence to gather up and publish the averages of the 20 top level domains that have sold (in 2016?) in the top five domain auction houses/sites (First, who are they? For example, I believe that Flippa’s metrics are totally inflated – check out all the duplicates). You may even find that the bottom 10 are at/near zero.
John Colascione says
January 22, 2017 at 2:03 pmSounds like a great topic to look into