By the Numbers: 2014 Reglike Survey

251 people from 36 countries participated in this year’s survey.

Over the next week or two I’ll post a series of stories with the results from this year’s Reglike survey.

I’d like to start by thanking each and every person who took the survey. 251 people from 36 countries responded this year. That’s fewer than in previous years since this year’s survey didn’t have any voting for firms. Still, I think the quality of response was higher.

The chart below shows a breakdown of survey-takers. The top row shows the percentage that are domain investors (75%). The second is the number that work for or own a domain registrar (19%) and the bottom row includes everyone that owns another type of domain services firm (20%). Obviously, there’s a lot of crossover in this industry.

Of those that identified themselves as domain investors, 80% stated that at least 3/4 of their domains were .com. Regarding 30% of survey-takers own at least 1,000 domain names.

I promised a few prizes to those that took the time to complete the survey:

Ira Z. won a free escrow at Agreed.com. (10 others will receive a discounted escrow at Agreed.) Fred M. and Jeff B. have won a copy of David Kesmodel’s book “The Domain Game”. I’ll contact all winners over the next few days.