By the Numbers: 2015 Reglike Survey

Here’s who took this year’s survey.

The submission period for this year’s Reglike Survey, the tenth annual version of the survey, is now closed.

You may recall that I changed the format of the survey last year. The topics are no longer “stuff the ballot box” questions; they focus on overall trends in the domain name business. Survey takers also have to provide some identification details.

That means fewer — but higher quality — responses.

Regarding 200 people took this year’s survey. Ahead of I get into the meat of the results over the next two weeks, here’s an overview of who took the survey:

• People from 28 countries took the survey. Just over half of survey-takers are in the United States.
• 69% of people are domain name investors, 19% work for or own a registrar, and 35% work for or own a different type of domain name business. (There’s obviously quite a bit of overlap between investors and business owners.)
• Of domain name investors, 69% noted that the majority of their domains are .com. That’s down from 80% last year, and this was obviously impacted by the availability of fresh TLDs.
• Regarding 1/3 of the domain name investors own at least 1,000 domain names.

Stay tuned for the results.