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Figure 1 shows the relative distribution of existing, proposed, potential, and invalid TLD strings
in the root query stream in 2013:
Figure 1—Distribution of Existing, Proposed, Potential, and Invalid TLDs (2013)
Table 4 shows the differences between 2012 and 2013 in the rank and number of occurrences (in
thousands) of the top 100 proposed TLDs. The rank change and count change figures are given
for comparison only; no conclusion about trends (in either direction) can be drawn from such a
limited set of data.
Rank 2012 2013 Change
Proposed TLD 2012 rank 2013 rank
change count count 2012-2013
home 1 1 0 595,024 952,944 60%
corp 2 2 0 122,794 144,507 18%
ice 21 3 18 1,837 19,789 977%
global 4 4 0 10,838 12,352 14%
med 29 5 24 1,262 10,801 756%
site 3 6 -3 13,013 10,716 -18%
ads 5 7 -2 7,799 10,563 35%
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