Surprising Run For .Fun Highlights Radix's Premium Domains Report for the 2nd Half of 2024

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Surprising Run For .Fun Highlights Radix's Premium Domains Report for the 2nd Half of 2024

Radix has released their latest semi-annual report on the registry operator's premium domain registrations and renewals across the 10 TLDs they administer. While Radix no longer includes total revenue numbers in these reports, their H2-2024 Premiums Report (.pdf file) provides a lot of interesting insight into how their top TLDs are performing.

Their 1H report showed their top three premium TLDs in terms of both the number of premiums registered and revenue were, in order, .tech, .online and .store. However in the second half, especially Q4, .fun, for whatever reason, broke out of the pack to win the premium registration race by a wide margin as you can see in the graphic below.

The graph below gives you a clear illustration of the extraordinary fourth quarter surge that pushed .fun to the head of the Radix premium domain pack.

The .fun run wasn't the only reason Radix had to celebrate though. Their total number of premium registrations across all of their TLDs in 2H-2024 was 2,179 - the most they have ever had in one half. That represent an 11% jump over the same half from the previous year (and .fun was up an astonishing 331% from the TLD's 2H-2023 total.

There is much more data of interest in the full report, including a breakdown of premium domain renewals that also surged, rising by 16% above the previous year's number for that half with .tech being the biggest winner in that metric, producing 29% of Radix's premium renewal income in 2H-2024.

(Posted March 7, 2025)

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